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Live Reviews

Live Review: Hoth Brothers Band, Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Café, Glasgow – 22nd June 2023

June 30, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Just days before the Hoth Brothers Band arrived in the UK for their first ever tour over here, it was announced that Boris McCutcheon, one half of the original duo, would be unable to join them […]

Album Reviews

Bear’s Den “First Loves” EP

June 23, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Four track EP of unrequited love songs. Having had their profile raised when their song ‘All That You Are‘ from their recent LP ‘Blue Hours‘ featured in a recent episode of ‘Ted Lasso’ (with a subsequent […]

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Book Review: Bruce Pollock “The Bleeker Street Tapes: Echoes of Greenwich Village”

June 21, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Essentially a compendium of articles, interviews with, and profiles of artists pertaining to the folk boom of the early 60s in Greenwich Village and its influence on the following decades, ‘The Bleeker Street Tapes’ roams much […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express + Kris Gruen, The Fallen Angels Club @ St. Lukes, Glasgow – 9th June 2023

June 14, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

The huge wave of applause which greeted Chuck Prophet as he appeared on stage, arms outstretched, said a lot for the love felt by this sold-out Glasgow audience for an artist making a much delayed return […]

Interviews

Interview: High on the hog with the Hoth Brothers Band

June 12, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

New Mexico’s Hoth Brothers Band hit the UK for the first time This week sees New Mexico’s Hoth Brothers Band arrive in the UK for their first tour over here.  They were supposed to be here […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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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Here’s the latest release from Portland-based singer-songwriter Jared McCloud.  ‘Tramp Like Me’ rocks with upbeat rhythms and bright, tuneful guitar that builds towards the song’s conclusion.  McCloud’s compelling vocal performance is at the heart of the […]

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Bella White’s made quite a splash with her debut album ‘Just Like Leaving‘ which marked out the teenage White as a distinctive new talent in bluegrass and adjacent folk.  For her follow up ‘Among Other Things‘ […]

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