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About Jonathan Aird
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025

June 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2

The Lexington welcomed JP Harris back with his full band in tow, ready to give an evening of rocking country tunes in styles that predate the big-hat, big-arena styles of the Eighties. There would be honky-tonk, […]

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The Wood Brothers “The Trick” – how to live your life

June 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

On the raucous rocking new single from The Wood Brothers, we are provided with a philosophy of life which resonates with the distorted accompaniment. “The trick” the brothers sing “is to not give a damn.” Imagine […]

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Kyshona “More In Common” – people, that’s us

June 19, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

In the face of the question “What can I do?” former music therapist turned artist-activist Kyshona says, “Listen!” And that was the title of her 2020 album release, which resonated in all sorts of ways in […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Neil Young

June 18, 2025 Jonathan Aird 4

At first glance, it would seem that I have given myself no challenge here at all. Can’t live without it for Neil Young? Put down “After The Goldrush” or “Everyone Knows This is Nowhere”, and 90% of […]

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Peaceful Faces “Doin’ It Wrong” – on a daily basis

June 18, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Peaceful Faces – the performance moniker of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Tree Palmedo, who has also worked with Fleet Foxes as a trumpeter.   Here, on a song from Peaceful Faces’ recently released third album “Without a Single Fight“, […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Today one of relatively rare examples of Americana that originates in the UK.  You’d think there would be a lot more, and whilst we have a number of “regulars” it’s always good to expand that number.  […]

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At the time the pandemic hit, Jade Jackson had just released her second album, ‘Wilderness’, on Anti- and was shortly to embark on a collaboration with Aubrie Sellers which resulted in the magnificent Jackson + Sellers’ […]

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