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About Richard Parkinson
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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Cass McCombs announces archive release “Seed Cake On Leap Year”

September 11, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Cass McCombs has announced the release of “Seed Cake On Leap Year”, which is available digitally now and in physical format on 8th November 2024, marking his return to the Domino label. “Seed Cake On Leap […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, Sunday 25th August 2024

September 11, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
Sunday didn’t bring quite the glorious sunshine hoped for on the final day of The Long Road 2024 but it was at least dry. First stop was Buddy’s to catch the first part of My Darling […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Simeon Hammond Dallas

September 10, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
No one could ever accuse Simeon Hammond Dallas of slacking.  Over the past 12 months she has been playing with anyone and everyone with a showcase spot at AmericanaFest at the National Museum of African American […]
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Bear’s Den announce 10th anniversary reissue of debut “Islands”

September 10, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Bear’s Den has announced a special 10th anniversary edition reissue of their debut “Islands” on 18th October 2024. “Islands” sold over 100,000 copies and reached the top 50 in the UK album charts. To commemorate the […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire – Saturday 24th August 2024

September 10, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The second day of The Long Road 2024 arrived with clouds and rain.  Not, apart from 15 minutes in the afternoon, torrential, but a general swing between light and heavy drizzle.  The latter tended to be […]

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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

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It has been a while, quite a while, since we last featured Great Willow (although we have heard more recently from James Combs, one half of the duo), so it’s really nice to have some new […]
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Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”

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Disappear down the rabbit hole with the latest single from The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, the musical project of New Jersey-based musician and performer Gary Van Miert. The video for The Mad Tea Party is a […]
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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

May 22, 2026 1
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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

May 19, 2026 2
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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Interview: Tami Neilson the Canadian born New Zealand country soul star and Kingmaker

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Playing Patsy Cline to Willie Nelson’s Marty Robbins. Country soul artist Tami Neilson is recognised as a leading New Zealand country music, country soul, and rockabilly artist, and she has also helped develop the genre and […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Doobie Brothers

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A couple of guys from college and I attended one of the Doobie Brothers’ shows back in the early ‘70s, and we couldn’t help but be fixated on this huge banner which stretched from one end […]
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Hal Cannon “Cowboy Sutra”

March 28, 2025 0
An album repurposing traditional tunes as contemplative, moving meditations on the Old West. The cover of Hal Cannon’s latest solo album finds him seated as a Hindu deity floating gently and serenely awaiting enlightenment. The image […]

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