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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
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 163 “The past is another country… or is it?”

November 15, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Regular readers will know I’m always banging on about the power of live music and the joy that it can bring and something surfaced this week that made me reflect on why I feel so strongly […]

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Cock-A-Doodle-Do! Red Rooster announces first tranche of acts at revered annual festival for 2025

November 12, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Euston Hall near Thetford is the gorgeous location for the annual Red Rooster festival and it’s usually a doozy. Next year’s early indications would suggest that for 29th to the 31st of May 2025 it’s more […]

Columns

Sounds from beyonds the Shed 162 “Health and Safety”

November 8, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 2

Life is increasingly complex but usually manageable despite the occasional barrier, because as sentient beings we should have a vague grasp on what is reasonable and what poses a risk to our continued existence. Or at […]

News

Foy Vance – Laughing at ‘The Joy of Nothing’ with Belfast and London dates

November 1, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 3

Emmy Award-winning songwriter Foy Vance will embark on the  ‘You & I UK Tour’ next week. Named after a track from Vance’s breakthrough 2013 album “Joy Of Nothing”, the tour includes residencies in Belfast Opera House […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 161 “Live is where it’s at”

November 1, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

A recent discussion on Radio 4 about gig going prompted a discussion amongst fellow writers about the type of gigs they attended and how often. It was a revealing conversation with, interestingly, venue comfort coming close […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Beth Bombara “Curious And Free” – no words version….

August 16, 2023 0

Wednesday afternoon, so it is instrumental composition time.  You’ll recall that Beth Bombara has a new album coming called ‘It All Goes Up’ which we’re pretty excited about.  Well, today we have an opportunity that doesn’t […]

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Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and Jackson Browne to tour another refugee benefit concert

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During 2019 Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne and Steve Earle embarked on “The Lantern Tour” which raised money for the Women’s Refugee Commission in the US. They’ve now announced some new dates for the rest of 2019 […]

Videos

Video: Greensky Bluegrass “Grow Together”

January 26, 2022 1

One of the great joys of watching the video for ‘Grow Together’ is to see the story of the song unfold: we find the members of Greensky Bluegrass writing, practising, performing, recording and relaxing and really […]

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