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About Keith Hargreaves
Riding the one eyed horse into dead town the scales fell from his eyes. Music was the only true god at once profane and divine The dust blew through his mind as he considered the offering... And then he scored it out of ten and waited for the world to wake up
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Villagers count the years of “Darling Arithmetic” with acoustic shows

February 4, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

To celebrate ten years of Villagers’ third album “Darling Arithmetic”, Conor O’Brien has announced three special acoustic performances in London, Dublin and Paris for May. The album was released in April 2015 following Villagers’ Mercury Prize-shortlisted […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 171 – “The Sounds of Silence”

January 31, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Regular readers will know that I have often mentioned that since quitting full-time teaching, somehow, my life has become busier. This is, for the most part, a good thing. There’s no ossification or relentless routine as […]

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Seattle’s SYML announces new album “Nobody Lives Here”

January 27, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Seattle-based artist and producer SYML has announced his third studio album, “Nobody Lives Here”, which will be released through Fin. Recordings and Nettwerk on April 4th, 2025. Written, recorded, and produced by SYML, he seems keen […]

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My Morning Jacket “is” and they are… back that is!

January 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

My Morning Jacket has announced the release date of their eagerly awaited new album, “is”, …ahem… is arriving via ATO Records on Friday, March 21st. Pre-orders are available here now. Produced by 3x GRAMMY® Award-winner Brendan […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 170 “Awards”

January 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1

I’m attending the AMAUK Awards this week and am looking forward to it. Not necessarily for the thrill of the envelope ripping and smiling winner’s faces as I’m usually standing next to the person whose name […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

Interviews

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

February 3, 2026 0

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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Tracks

Michelle Brooke “Find Your Love” – Listen

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The production is superb on Michelle Brooke’s latest song released from her EP ‘Let the Light In‘ which brings out every ounce of expression on a song that has a slow burning groove which embraces the […]

Videos

Video: Erik Vincent Huey “Drink All Day”

January 18, 2023 0

Here’s the recent single from Honky Tonking Erik Vincent Huey.  ‘Drink All Day’ sounds like its subject matter – irreverent and raucous.  As Huey sings of boozing all day, “Like I’m in a country song,” there’s a […]

Live Reviews

Live review: Hannah Aldridge + Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes, Glad Cafe Glasgow – 10th July 2022

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Not so much a headliner plus support act, this combination of Alabama and Australia was more of a rock’n’roll revue show with the musicians variously appearing, leaving and then reappearing on stage throughout the night.  Sure […]

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