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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 134 “Questions, questions…”

March 1, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

My first interview as a roving interviewer was thrust upon me this week. None other than the very friendly (as it turns out) Joe Pernice but the build up to this first gig was somewhat frantic. […]

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They’re back after 5 long years! The Avett Brothers return with Rick Rubin producing and the new album is called…

March 1, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Rejoice Avett Brothers fans, the drought is over, as their new album is out on May 17th via Ramseur Records/American Recordings/Thirty Tigers and after many focus group conversations they’ve gone with a title we’ll remember – […]

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Iron and Wine announces return with new album the first for seven years – it’s been too long!

February 26, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Iron & Wine’s “Light Verse”, his seventh album, comes out on Sub Pop On Friday, April 26th The ten-track collection was produced by the band’s principal singer-songwriter Sam Beam and mixed and engineered by Dave Way […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 133 “The Democratic Process”

February 23, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Last week, as previously mentioned, I attended the count of the Wellingborough by election. I was there as an observer for the Green Party. A mate of mine was the candidate. It was a massive eye […]

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Finally! The Covid delayed “Never Work” by Ariel Sharatt & Mathias Kom makes it to UK shores

February 23, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Working hard or hardly working? The last few years have been a bit of both. In the spring of 2020 Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom released an album of contemporary labour songs and were just getting […]

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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

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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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Does this January seem to be just dragging on ?  Dark nights and grey days, like a perpetual Groundhog Day or the same bad song on repeat.  Well, we have something here to energise your Monday.  […]

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The Two Tracks “Cheers to Solitude” (Independent, 2020)

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‘Cheers to Solitude’ opens with the bouncy, infectious ‘Beautiful’, a song that is a tour across America from the Pacific Redwoods and Pacific ocean on the West Coast, through the deep South to New Orleans and […]

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Mid-life reflection and authentic blues from the Mississippi Hill Country. Ask someone to name a Grammy-award winning drummer turned guitarist who is also the lead singer of his band and has appeared in several films and […]

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