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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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Florry “Pretty Eyes Lorraine” – there’s been some misunderstandings

May 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Florry is a band bred in the crackling warmth of the Philadelphia DIY scene and forged with the alloys of community action, queer liberation and bedroom poetry.  Bandleader Francie Medosch and her absolute unit of collaborators […]
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Jeff Karoub And Garrison Corner “Come Back To Ourselves” – could we return to reason?

May 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Detroit singer-songwriter Jeff Karoub, but he’s been working both on his songs and the sound in his arrangements.  Take ‘Come Back To Ourselves‘, which is a soulful plea […]
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The Song Remains: Wizz Jones (1939 – 2025)

May 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Davey Graham…the great guitarists of the British folk boom of the 1960s are leaving us one by one and now, sadly, we have to add Wizz Jones to that number. Very much […]
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James Cook “Is That All You Got” – not defeated yet

May 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
The first single from James Cook’s second album “Texican Velvet” sees the Texas/Oklahoma music scene fixture bring his raw and honest songwriting to bear on the journey of a resilient protagonist named Josie, fearlessly exploring themes of […]
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Arren “Broken” – talking might help

May 9, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Today is definitely an eyebrow raising day as we introduce the new song from ARREN.  ARREN is a Dublin-based, Clare/Limerick-born artist who aims to bring the anthemic scale of iconic ’90s and 2000s pop-rock into the […]

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New Yorker Jesse Malin began his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, before assuming the role of vocalist of glam punk band D Generation. Between 1994 and 1999 D Generation released three […]
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Mildred “Fenceline”

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Sensitive sounds carry poetic lyrics and encourage deeper reflections on meaning. Mildred is a four-piece band from Oakland, CA, with members: Henry Easton Koehler (vocals, guitar), Jack Schrott (vocals, guitar), Matt Palmquist (vocals, bass, woodwinds) or […]
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We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the explosion […]

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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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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Jeremy Ivey to release third album in March new single out now

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Former member of Buffalo Clover, Jeremy Ivey, has announced his third album ‘Invisible Pictures‘ will be released on March 11th on Anti-. Ivey released his critically acclaimed solo debut ‘The Dream and The Dreamer‘ in 2019 […]
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Video: Rod Picott “Primer Gray”

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Ahead of a big March tour and taken from his superb new double album Out Past The Wires, this is a typically honest and raw song from the great Rod Picott. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAuMh0hwJ70&feature=youtu.be
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Closing out our mini-run of TNMAFS tracks we’re happy to share the latest from The Brother Brothers, who are David and Adam Moss, identical twins born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, and until recently based in […]

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