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Bruce Cockburn “Blind Willie” – Listen
Bruce Cockburn really does not need an introduction – let’s just leave it at a tally of his most recent major awards and leave it at that: 2018 Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album Of The […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
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Track Premiere: Will Bennett & The Tells “In Nashville”
‘All Your Favorite Songs’ is the new album from Will Bennett & The Tells, and it is out tomorrow. And this song is the first single from the album, and what a single it is. Scathing […]
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Tony Harrah Blues “Sweet Lucinda” – Listen
‘Sweet Lucinda‘ is the lead single from Tony Harrah’s new album ‘Unicorns‘, and focuses on farming desperation. Not just crop failures or droughts – the desperation here is that of separating from a wife, the pointlessness […]
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Track Premiere: Western States “Duke”
The band Western States formed in St Louis, the great confluence of American music – everything travelled to St Louis along the Mississippi and the Missouri and that includes every strand of music. St. Louis is […]
Album Reviews
Mavis Staples “We Get By” (Anti-, 2019)
As we noted earlier in the year – when her live album recorded on her 2018 London dates was released – Mavis Staples is showing no sign of slowing down, in fact quite the opposite would […]