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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 – week 32

October 21, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

Hope not hate – seemed a good idea at the time and still is! I am now on half term so this will be a short one. It’s not often that news events crash into my […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 31

October 13, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

Looking forward to a week in the van Half term is coming and with it the thought of a week in the trusty van firstly alongside the Oxford canal and then onto the wilds of broadest […]

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Lilli Lewis “Americana”

October 13, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 2

Classy, thoughtful album from a striking talent. The self-professed Folk Rock Diva Lili Lewis returns to recording with a rootsy, country soul album that really hits the spot with its melancholy meditations and narratives. Opening with […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 30

October 8, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

Steady as she goes… Things are improving at school despite a feeling that a stable door has been shut after the horse has not only exited the building but has taken up residence in an EU […]

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John McCutcheon “Bucket List”

October 1, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

Multi Grammy-nominated folk singer’s latest – if it ain’t broke… McCutcheon has a huge back catalogue featuring everything from dulcimer-driven folk to heartland rocky ballads, children’s stories to evocations of Christmas in the trenches. He has […]

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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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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Exploring the dark underbelly of suburbia through gothic alt-folk. This final EP of a trilogy finds StevieRay Latham in experimental and artistic territory, playing with the concepts of the dark, gothic underbelly of suburbia. Opening with […]

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

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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 […]

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It’s another article in our Unsung Heroes of Americana series and, following on from his article on the Gibson J-45, Richard Phillips is back with another piece on an instrument that is at the very heart of […]

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