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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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Sounds from beyond the Shed 152 “WTF”

August 9, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

I was in Nottingham two weeks ago to see Gary Louris, Birmingham last week for the cricket on both occasions I wandered through the city centres loving my ‘visits’ to the city from my rural home […]

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Turn on, tune in and enjoy – Black Deer launch their “Americana Radio Station” for the people!

August 9, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Just too late for Tim Martin’s excellent radio/podcast piece Black Deer Live, the organisation behind the fan favourite festival that takes place in Eridge Park, Kent every June have now launched the radio station announced by […]

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Ring that Olympic bell! Peter Bruntnell’s back with new album and tour

August 8, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Peter Bruntnell has announced the release of his fourteenth or fifteenth (count them!) album – “Houdini and the Sucker Punch” comes out on October 4th on Domestico Records. It follows in the wake of 2021’s “Journey […]

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Mean Mary announces release of her 19th studio album – not so mean after all!

August 6, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Mean Mary has announced the release date of her new album “Woman Creature ( Portrait of a Woman, Part 2 )”  on October 4th 2024.  Mainly recorded at Mary’s home studio, the album showcases her gifts […]

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Vive La France – A new Americana Festival makes its debut in September with a one day bash

August 2, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

The Eldorado Americana Festival is a new event billed as dedicated to American music (folk, country, rock, blues, soul etc.). It has been devised and curated by Michel Pampelune, a leading advocate of Americana who has […]

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

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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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Tift Merritt, The Lexington, London, 31st January 2017

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Bonnie Raitt has announced her latest album, ‘Just Like That…‘ will be released on April 22nd by new partner Sub Pop. This, her 21st album, comes after ‘Dig in Deep‘ was released in 2016. The album […]

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