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London based self-diagnosed music junkie with tastes extending to all points of big tent americana and beyond. Fan of acts and songs rather than genres.
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Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington team up for first soundtrack

September 26, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Songwriters Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington have collaborated on their first original film score for “Rebuilding”, the new feature film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman. The film, which stars Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann […]
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Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival, 1st-5th October

September 25, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The 19th annual Glasgow Americana festival will take place at various places around the city between 1st and 5th October 2025  with a mixture of some familiar and new faces. There will be over 40 musicians […]
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Elles Bailey announces new album and early 2026 tour dates

September 25, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
After the release of her highest charting album to date last year Elles Bailey is back with a brand new album “Can’t Take My Story Away” set to be released on 16th January 2026 via Cooking […]
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The Paper Kites to release seventh album, announce UK/Ireland early 2026 tour

September 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Alternative folk band The Paper Kites have announced their seventh studio album, “If You Go There, I Hope You Find It”, to be released on 23rd January 2026 via Nettwerk Music Group. ”If You Go There, […]
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Live Review: Hannah White, 100 Club, London – 19th September 2025

September 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The Elizabeth Line finally delivered some value for money tonight, getting this reviewer across town to the iconic 100 Club for Hannah White’s album launch gig for “Fine Day” on the day of its release. Unfortunately, […]

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Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

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An addition to our Anniversary Cheers occasional Feature: this is The Handsome Family with a re-release, with additional outtakes and live recordings, of the excellent Singing Bones. The Handsome Family are Brett and Rennie Sparks, a […]
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Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson

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With only a few weeks to go until the 19th Gate To Southwell Festival, fans are looking forward to this four-day event in rural Nottinghamshire which runs from 2nd-5th July. The festival features more than 60 […]
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Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, London Palladium, London – 11th May 2026

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The Timmins family (and a close friend) band has reached the milestone of forty years as a band and forty years since their debut album, Whites Off Earth Now!!, and for their current tour, they have […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Austin Lucas returns with new album “Alive In The Hot Zone!” – Listen

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Austin Lucas has announced the release of a new album ‘Alive In The Hot Zone!’ which lands on October 30th 2020 via Cornelius Chapel Records, along with the first single ‘Already Dead’. Written and recorded in […]
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The Sadies land in the UK this Fall

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On the back of their most recent release, Northern Passages, The Sadies will be returning to the UK for a short series of dates at the end of October.  The Sadies – singer/guitarists Dallas and Travis Good, […]
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Dave Richardson “Carry Me Along” (Independent, 2018)

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A drift of New England based contemporary (yet traditional) folk, if such a thing exists. Dave Richardson’s stock in trade is ‘old school’ roots, certainly in terms of song subject and structure. That’s no bad thing. […]

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