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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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Jon Byrd and Amelia White announce co-headline UK tour dates

October 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Nashville’s Jon Byrd and Amelia White have announced their Tennessee Two-Step tour of venues around England in October 2024.  The dates, which you can find below, start in North London at Camden’s iconic Green Note on […]

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London-based Australian Geowulf announces new album – first as a solo act

October 1, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Geowulf aka songwriter and musician Star Kendrick has announced her new album, and her first as a solo artist, “The Child” which lands 17th January 2025 via the Nettwerk label. The first two albums as Geowulf […]

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A quadruple whammy from The Lumineers – new live album, tour film, tour dates and studio record

September 27, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The Lumineers have announced a European and UK tour for April and May 2025 in support of their fifth studio album set for release in 2025 via Dualtone, which promises to be their biggest European and […]

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As predicted here, The Dead Tongues announce UK and European tour dates

September 26, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Next week, the national lottery numbers. Earlier this year, The Dead Tongues (aka Ryan Gustafson) released a pair of albums, “Body Of Light” and “I Am A Cloud”.  “Body of Light” was released mid-June 2024 while […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – The String Cheese Incident

September 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

As many others have written, this feature is one which is really hard to write.  Unless it’s a review, no one really wants to take time and space talking down an artist’s work when there is […]

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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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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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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

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When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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The Cold Stares look death in the eye in their new single ‘Mortality Blues.’   A slow burn of a track centered around a rustic dobro guitar riff, the song builds but never boils over.  This is […]

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