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Album Reviews

Dan Weltman “Rivers In My Mind”

July 4, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Dan Weltman is slightly bruised, reflective and striving to do better on this fine set of low key songs. Taking a break from his time as main songwriter for the Bristol based summery psych pop band […]

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Rhythmtree Festival features an Americana themed stage from promoters sc4m

June 29, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

After two fallow Covid years, promoters sc4m will be curating a woodland roots / acoustic / Americana stage at the ever-delightful Rhythmtree Festival on the Isle Of Wight on July 9. The headliner will be John […]

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Grant Lee Phillips “All That You Can Dream”

June 27, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Grant Lee Phillips tries to find some sense in a world turned upside down Given that life is getting back to something like normality, one would expect the wave of so-called “lockdown” albums to gradually subside […]

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Live Review: Joshua Hedley + Al Shields, Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe – Glasgow, 9th June 2022

June 16, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

The intimate backroom of the Glad Cafe was the fullest I’d seen since we were allowed out to play again. The Fallen Angels’ regulars were out in force with the numbers swelled by many who would […]

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Drive-By Truckers “Welcome 2 Club XIII”

June 1, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Revitalised after the enforced lockdown, Drive By Truckers roar back in fine form. After three albums which reflected on the angst ridden and perilous state of the USA and then an enforced hiatus due to the […]

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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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Watch the video for the first song from it below. The Mountain Goats have announced the release of a new album ‘Bleed Out’ described as a “cinematic experience inspired by action movies from the 60s, 70s […]

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Ana Egge “Between Us”

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Quality always shines but more can sometimes be less. Ana Egge was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan to parents who were teachers, farmers and sometime hippies. They lived in Ambrose, North Dakota, later moving to Silver City […]

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Willi Carlisle “Peculiar, Missouri”

July 5, 2022 0

Carlisle challenges country’s macho image with stunning sophomore offering. Growing up in the rural, small town life of the American Midwest, in Kansas and Illinois, Carlisle’s world was full of juxtapositions. Captain of his football team […]

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