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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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All the Luck in the World “Tested & Tried – Listen”

November 16, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
All the luck in the World are an Irish band based in Berlin who make a modern folk-rock sound reminiscent of Bon Iver.  ‘Tested & Tried‘ sounds dreamily relaxing, but there’s a grain of grit in […]
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Joe Stamm Band “Dandelion Woman” – Listen

November 15, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
The title track from the Joe Stamm Band’s recently released EP – it hit the streets on 26th October – opens with menace as a tale of bad choices in love on a trailer park is […]
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Bob Dylan “Bootleg Series 14: More Blood, More Tracks” (Columbia Records,2018)

November 14, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1
“Every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul” – ‘Blood on the Tracks‘ is arguably Dylan’s masterpiece in a gallery […]
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Cam Penner “At War with Reason” – Listen

November 14, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
The incomparable Cam Penner is playing the Green Note tonight, with the esteemed Jon Wood.  And this is a new song which, in the days we find ourselves living in, you might think that is about […]
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Seasick Steve, Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 9th November 2018

November 13, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s a packed out Corn Exchange for the first night of Seasick Steve’s first UK tour since 2015. Much has changed since his famous Hootenanny breakthrough moment, not least that the audience is now predominantly middle-aged […]

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Bedouine’s new album “Neon Summer Skin” out in June

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Bedouine, the project of LA-based musician Azniv Korkejian, releases her new album, Neon Summer Skin, on 5th June 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Across Neon Summer Skin, Korkejian intentionally returned to the instruments she played as a […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Live Review: The Ramblin’ Roots Revue 2026, New Buckinghamshire University – 10th-12th April 2026

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Video Premiere: Nathan Jacques “Drifting”

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Nathan Jacques’ new single, ‘Drifting’, begins with ethereal, sliding notes, immediately engaging the listener in a song that is, quite simply, beautiful.  This is stuff to get lost in.  At over six minutes, the song allows the […]
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A voyage around his father from a soulful singer. Foy Vance’s seventh album is pitched as the end of a voyage commenced when he learned of the death of his father 26 years ago. As such, […]

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