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No Dry Country “Fifteen Piece Band” – Listen
No Dry Country, or NDC as they sometimes go by, may have started out as a covers band, but nine years on from forming they’ve honed their own style and put out a few releases with […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
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Rich Hall’s Hoedown, Cambridge Corn Exchange, 27th February 2018
Now in its second year the City Roots Festival continues along a path already taken by its elder sibling the Cambridge Folk Festival in that it takes a fairly broad definition of what represents Roots. And […]
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Ivan Moult “Lay Me Down” – Listen
When Winston Churchill felt the heavy hand of depression falling on him he would bestir himself and build a wall – bricklaying was his distraction. And whiskey in copious amounts. Ivan Moult has a different cure […]
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Christof van der Ven “Killed This Stone Dead” – Listen
Showing his youthful musical influences of 1960’s American and English folk, Christof van der Ven is a singer-songwriter who is about to release his debut album from which ‘Killed this stone dead’ is taken. In his […]
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Tremends “Now We Know” – Listen
‘Now We Know’ is a ripe slice of fuzzed up guitar driven psych-rock. Juan Rozas demonstrates a fine restraint on the guitar solos here – precise, but not flash, backed up by the booming drum sound […]