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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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Bonny Light Horseman ensure summer dominance by announcing European tour dates

May 15, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

As the build up continues to their new album “Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free”‘s release on June 7th as we previously reported, the brilliant Bonny Light Horseman have also announced a series of European […]

News

Troubadour of choice Jason McNiff adds a ninth album to his bulging repertoire

May 13, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

The Hastings based singer songwriter and guitarist Jason McNiff has announced the release of his 9th LP, “Everything’s a Song”, on June 7th. The album was produced and recorded by Matt Armstrong (bass and drums) in […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 141 – Travel broadens the mind …and the record collection

May 10, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 3

Last week saw me undertaking a tour of the Somme battlefield. It’s always a humbling and often upsetting trip but I get a good deal of satisfaction taking people round these sites and helping them understand […]

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Album Reviews

Josienne Clarke “Parenthesis, I”

May 9, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Complex, often dazzling and emotive work from artist fulfilling her potential. Opening with the hymnal ‘The Calm‘ the new album by Josienne Clarke is a measured and maturing work following her previous releases. Clarke’s vocals remain […]

Drive-By Truckers
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 140: “Fame, I’m going to live forever…”

May 3, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Last week’s article alluded to Mrs H doing something secret that I couldn’t know about but the cat has emerged from the bag this week as it appears that the choir that she sings with (see […]

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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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Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and it’s good to be back after my Colombia travails although I do miss the feeling of being in a country governed by someone who feels […]

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The Song Remains: Michael Hurley (1941- 2025)

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The passing of Michael Hurley who died on April 1st aged 83 closes the chapter on a remarkable musician. AUK wrote of him a while back that he “ploughed his own unique furrow of pastoral, homespun […]

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Interview: The Delines’ Willy Vlautin on their 2022 Americana UK poll success

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The Delines, a ballad band with a jazz keyboardist, a jazz drummer, and an R&B bassist. The Delines won the Americana UK Album Of The Year 2022 and were runners-up in our readers’ Album Of The […]

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