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Track Premiere: Big Love Car Wash “Dante”

April 3, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

There is no doubt that Big Love Car Wash are, at last, another NWOABB artist (that’s New Wave Of American Bluegrass Bands, natch’). Partly that’s because the band – Sol Chase (mandolin, bouzouki, vocals), Everett Wren […]

Alison Brown and Steve Martin (Featuring Tim O’Brien) “5 Days Out, 2 Days Back” – touring tales

April 2, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s the tale of the touring life – away for 5 days straight and then home to the family for a couple of days and then…repeat. It’s also a taste of an upcoming album from banjo […]

Hudson Mueller “Welcome To Earth” – enjoy yourself whilst you’re here

April 1, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The title track of Hudson Mueller’s new album references Kurt Vonnegut’s wisdom for newcomers to our planet – and takes the form of a song from a father to his literally new child, imparting the knowledge […]

Folk Roundup – Daria Kulesh, Lush “In the Bath” Compilation, Kristin Daelyn, Pedair, Ainsley Hamill

March 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, well, well – it seems that there is a larger amount of Welsh folk being produced than we’d previously suspected, and we have a couple more samples on this month’s Folk Roundup. Alongside that there’s […]

Penny & Sparrow “Breakdown” – love me through the angst

March 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Indie-folk pair Penny & Sparrow released their latest album, ‘Lefty‘ on the 31st of January via I Love You / Thirty Tigers, and naturally enough ‘Breakdown‘ is taken from that release. ‘Breakdown‘ shows a lot of […]

Anniversary Cheers: JD Crowe & The New South and Boone Creek celebrate 50 years

August 18, 2026 0

Craft Recordings re-release two remastered ground-breaking bluegrass albums, one long out of print, and both on CD for the first time In the mid-1970s, bluegrass music was evolving from the traditional ensemble acoustic playing of artists […]

Dan Pye “Room 7, on the 7th”

August 18, 2026 0

An impressive modern folk debut where creativity shines through. London-based Dan Pye is a creative individual. Alongside Room 7, on the 7th, his debut album, he has produced films, zines, handmade copper etchings, a diptych and […]

Cover art for Eric Hgen album "Make Country Sad Again"

More People Really Should Know About: Eric Hagen

August 18, 2026 2

In his excellent review of the album Revival, published in these hallowed pages upon its release in 2023, my esteemed colleague Michael Macy compared the songs of Eric Hagen to those of the great American realist […]

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