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Leeroy Stagger announces new album “Strange Path”

July 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
To say that Canadian musician Leeroy Stagger’s life journey has followed a strange path would be a bit of an understatement. 17 years as a singer-songwriter and 10 years sober, with two kids, a home in […]
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Frank Turner heads to No Man’s Land next month

July 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Frank Turner has released the latest track lifted from his forthcoming eighth album, ‘No Man’s Land’ due out August 16th on Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records, produced by Catherine Marks and featuring an all-female cast of musicians. […]
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Tyler Ramsey announces UK dates for autumn

July 11, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Tyler Ramsey, the former Band of Horses co-writer and lead guitarist, has today announced his return to the UK, this time with full band, following his sold-out solo show at St Pancras Old Church in May […]
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Jesse Malin shares new video from forthcoming album – Watch

July 11, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Jesse Malin has shared the video for ‘Room 13’, the lead track from his Lucinda Williams-produced new album ‘Sunset Kids’, which is due out August 30th via Wicked Cool Records/Velvet Elk.
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Songs for the apocalypse: The Avett Brothers “Mama, I Don’t Believe”

July 10, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
North Carolina’s Avett Brothers consisting of two actual brothers (Scott and Seth) along with fellow bandmates have been around for almost two decades now, and each album becomes more musically accomplished than the last. The San […]

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John Perry Barlow’s memoir Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times reads like an acid trip from the American counterculture, yet also carries an idealistic turn that comes from living through multiple revolutions. The book […]
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Live Review: Eric Bibb + Janileigh Cohen, St. Leonard’s Church, Bridgnorth – 25th March 2026

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Maisy Owen “Dark on a Sunny Day”

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Moody and magnificent debut from major new songwriter. A new name to the Americana UK shores, Maisy Owen is a Nashville native now residing in L.A. This is her first full-length offering, although at eight songs, […]

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]

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Interview: Eric Bibb on his love letter to America

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The spirit of the ‘60s Civil Rights Movement mixed with roots music with a modern worldview. While Eric Bibb is a modern performer, he also has personal links to the ‘60s Civil Rights Movement and the […]
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More People Should Really Know About: Jake Vaadeland

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Jake Vaadeland is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Saskatchewan, Canada, which has a thriving roots and old time music scene, my wife and I first discovering this at the wonderful Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival,  […]
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Video: Cardboard Fox “Ghosts”

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From their new album Topspin, this is the Carrivick Sisters “other” band  (the one that’s not Midnight Skyracer) with the excellent Ghosts.

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