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Margo Price announces January 2024 UK & Ireland dates

October 31, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

After a sold-out show at London’s Lafayette in August, Margo Price is returning to the UK and Ireland for a run of dates in January 2024. Kicking off at Gorilla in Manchester on January 26th, Margo […]

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Something for the weekend: Billy Bragg “California Stars” (Live October / November 1998)

October 27, 2023 Mark Whitfield 3

Well that’s it for another week and we leave you dear reader with a track from a new collection out today, Billy Bragg’s ‘The Roaring Forty’ which nobody sent us for review sadly (damn you Cooking […]

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Jon Dee Graham “Lost in the Flood” – endless joy in the cascade of time

October 25, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Texas troubadour Jon Dee Graham has shared the second single from his upcoming album ‘Only Dead For a Little While’, which is out November 10th on New West subsidiary Strolling Bones Records. It’s a full-circle album […]

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Preview: Bill Kirchen arrives in UK next week for Around the World in 50 Days tour

October 24, 2023 Mark Whitfield 2

Telecaster master Bill Kirchen is heading back to the UK from next week as part of his Around the World in 50 Days tour.  Via Australia and Holland, the ex-Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen […]

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Allman Brown “Bad Blood” – Stuck in an endless loop of regret

October 24, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Singer-songwriter Allman Brown has announced details of a new EP, ‘Second Son Part I’ which lands on 1st December 2023 via Nettwerk, and today he’s shared his latest single ‘Bad Blood’. The song finds Allman Brown […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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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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This beautiful song from Jim Ghedi is accompanied by an engaging video, directed by John Carroll and featuring archive footage of Sheffield interspersed with the lovely landscapes of the Peak District.  Ghedi explains the concepts behind […]

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