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Something for the weekend: Them Coulee Boys “I Am Not Sad”

November 22, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, a week in which it’s been good to see on a couple of occasions that justice is occasionally served. We leave you with the closing track […]

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The Delines return with new album “Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom”

November 21, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

Americana royalty Portland-based country-soul band The Delines have announced details of a new album “Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom” due out 14th February via Decor Records. Known for their character-rich storytelling and soulful Americana sound, the band […]

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Something for the weekend: Massy Ferguson “Miles Away”

November 15, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Massy Ferguson are an Americana band from Seattle who we’ve featured around these parts previously – they have a new album around the corner called “You […]

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Something for the weekend: Pete Seeger “We Shall Overcome”

November 8, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

Well what can you say about this week which hasn’t already been said? It sounds bleak to acknowledge it but the world feels like it’s on the precipice of some really dark times. Of course for […]

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The American Dream is dead. Long live Americana.

November 6, 2024 Mark Whitfield 26

You know what? I would love to just not think about the United States any more. The whole continual psychodrama is just exhausting and I often think that’s it’s genuinely one of the last Western countries […]

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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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Check out the video premiere of the first single release from StevieRay Latham’s forthcoming ‘Hinterland EP’, which is due for release on 29th July 2022.  This is a song of loss and what it means to accept […]

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A book that asserts music’s power to bring change. Former A-list road manager, movie producer, investment banker, professor, technological inventor, and writer, Jonathan Taplin’s memoir tells you more about his life and times than about the […]

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This is the fifth full length album from this four piece Brooklyn based band the core of which is formed around best friends Louisa Rachel Solomon and Elijah Oberman. Having been in existence since 2006 they […]

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