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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 – Week 54

May 10, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

God I’ve missed this…. So it happened this week. My last indoor gig was on the 19th March 2020 The Felice Brothers in Cambridge. It was small, intimate and alternately heartbreaking and raucously joyous. Everything live […]

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Tennessee Stiffs “Dearly Departed”

May 6, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Concept album as therapy delivers mixed results Using the therapy of a double concept album to overcome the anguish of being ripped off by a shyster management and record company that took their money and disappeared […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 53

May 4, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 1

It’s no wonder education is in a mess. This week a Govt. adviser on education and a Headteacher of a London school Katharine Birbalsingh said the following whilst giving evidence to an education committee “Just from […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 52

April 26, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Gone in a flash… Easter is gone and the stamp of shoes in the corridors rattles through my head once again. I count myself very lucky to have school holidays and although they are often filled […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Counting Crows “Monkey”

April 25, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Following Ramsay Midwood I was tempted to go the way of Glitterhouse Records and perhaps plump for a Mark Olson track. I can’t help feeling guilty about my scathing review of the gig when he played […]

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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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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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The first release for a couple of years ‘Small World Turning’ represents a return to the more acoustic stylings of earlier Thea Gilmore recordings. Opening with an a cappella cover of ‘Mockingbird’ that fades into the […]

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Track Premiere: Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn “Little Bird”

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Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn are gearing up to release their debut album, “One Year Since“, which was recorded last year in what we now have to refer to as “wartorn Portland”, and will be released […]

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Let’s face it, this particular folk song doesn’t really do much to inspire confidence in the faithfulness of men of many trades – as Seth Lakeman explains “I first heard my Father singing this song as […]

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