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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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The Mavericks announce a new album “Moon & Stars” and European tour dates

March 6, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Americana icons The Mavericks have announced details of their highly-anticipated new album ‘Moon & Stars’.  The record is due for release on 17th May via the band’s Mono Mundo Recordings imprint in conjunction with Thirty Tigers.  […]
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Charley Crockett announces new album “$10 Cowboy” and London dates

March 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2
Much feted singer-songwriter Charley Crockett has announced the release of a new album, ‘$10 Cowboy’, due out 26th April on Thirty Tigers. After a DIY-inspired career to date,’$10 Cowboy’ is the Rio Grande Valley native’s 13th studio record. […]
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Preview: May Erlewine UK tour dates kick off tonight

March 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
May Erlewine, the Michigan singer-songwriter has announced a headline tour next month with 3 support dates opening for multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer Theo Katzman, in the UK and Europe beginning tonight. Erlewine, who last played […]
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Alan Doyle “Welcome Home”

March 4, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Welcome return for singer-songwriter Alan Doyle. Alan Doyle is a folk-rock singer-songwriter from Newfoundland in Canada.    Doyle first found fame as part of Great Big Sea who were commercially successful in their home country.  He produced […]
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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers to release new album “Revelations”

March 4, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers will be releasing their fourth album, ‘Revelations’ on March 29th via Thirty Tigers.  The band’s last album, ‘Nightroamer’, came out in 2022 followed later the same year by frontperson River Shook’s […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg

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Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?

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Amy Speace to release debut poetry collection and new single

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Live Review: Seasick Steve, Folk by the Oak – 19th July 2026

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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

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Matraca Berg
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg

July 29, 2026 1
Yes I know I am picking two albums from a catalogue of only 8, two of which are compilations and one that was never released. For some reason the label didn’t like it, though two of […]
Tracks

Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?

July 29, 2026 0
This new song is a relatively old song; it comes from Gary Marks’ unreleased album A Whisper Can Change The World, recorded in 2007. So, why unreleased? Gary Marks had started out on his singer-songwriter path […]
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Amy Speace to release debut poetry collection and new single

July 29, 2026 0
Award-winning singer-songwriter and poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals on Tuesday 1st September 2026.  It will be published by Red Hen Press.  Speace will also be releasing an accompanying […]

  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg
  • Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?
  • Amy Speace to release debut poetry collection and new single
  • Live Review: Seasick Steve, Folk by the Oak – 19th July 2026
  • Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”
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  • Track Premiere: Sara Milonovich & Daisycutter “What We Did With The Place”
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Forgotten Artists – Marvin, Welch & Farrar

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Here we go with another glance into the past via our FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series, taking a look at some of the Americana musicians that may just have dropped out of people’s memories or who, perhaps, never […]
Album Reviews

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn “Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn” (Smithsonian Folkways, 2020)

June 1, 2020 0
Abagail Washburn doesn’t leave all the banjo experimentation to her husband Bela Fleck, who has produced this new album. Where Bela has been looking across the Atlantic to the banjo’s origins in Africa, Abigail Washburn has […]
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Video: Elephant Stone “We Cry For Harmonia”

February 14, 2020 0
Elephant Stone’s dreamy sound is perfectly complemented by this animated video for the final single to be released from new album, ‘Hollow’.  The director, Mike Turzanski, says of the video: “I wanted to make a series […]

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