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Jonny Brick is a songwriter from Hertfordshire whose latest book is The Daily Bruce. He is the founding editor of the website A Country Way of Life, and he writes for Country Music People.
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Blue Cactus “Believer”

April 8, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Meditative melodies with an alt-country feel. From out of the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Blue Cactus have here fashioned the same kind of Cosmic Americana that the likes of Marty Stuart and Kacey […]

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Rachel Kane “Holler at the Wind”

April 2, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Assured acoustic folk full of wisdom and melody. After two decades away from music Rachel Kane, who is from Neil Young’s birth city of Winnipeg, Canada, returns to a much altered world: for one thing, she’s […]

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Rees Shad “Porcelain Angel”

March 20, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Twelve tracks that run the full gamut of American music. In case you are unaware of Rees Shad, whose biography can be summed up as “polymath”, this is his 17th album in a 30-year career which […]

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Live Review: Iris DeMent + Ana Egge, Union Chapel, London – 28th February 2025

March 5, 2025 Jonny Brick 4

Do we need to enumerate the ways Iris DeMent is so marvellous? She possesses a voice which is never forgotten once you hear it, akin to that of Stevie Nicks, Dolly Parton or Lucinda Williams. At […]

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Holly Lovell “Hello Chelsea”

February 24, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Piano-led debut with a classic singer/songwriter feel. Holly Lovell spent her teenage years in Australia, where her dad was born, then moved to the US where her mum was born. Still US-based, she recorded her debut […]

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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

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When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Interview: Bernie Leadon Too Late to Be Cool? No way!

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When pigs can fly and cows jump over the moon …. when hell freezes over …. when an NBA player gets called for “palming the ball” …. when George Costanza picks up a check … when […]

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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

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“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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