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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.
Cover art for Gaby Moreno 'Dusk'
Album Reviews

Gaby Moreno “Dusk”

February 14, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
Gorgeous new record from multi-talented LA based artist. The last twelve months has seen Gaby Moreno win a Grammy for her 2023 EP ‘X Mi Vol 1’ and a Latin Grammy as producer of ‘Vida’ by […]
Gretchen Peters
Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Gretchen Peters “Five Minutes”

February 8, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2
It’s not often you remember where you were when you heard a song for the first time.  In June 2011, I was at the Stables in Wavendon, Milton Keynes, seeing Wine, Women & Song (Gretchen Peters, […]
Front cover artwork for Little Lore's Seven Stories
Album Reviews

Little Lore “Seven Stories”

February 6, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Latest mini-album release from London-based singer-songwriter. Little Lore is the nom de tune of singer-songwriter Tricia Duffy.  Originally from Portsmouth and now based in London, Duffy has several releases to her name under the Little Lore […]
Cover art for 24th Street Blues by Tom Heyman. Artist Deirdre Wood
Album Reviews

Tom Heyman “24th Street Blues”

January 19, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
A selection of songs drawing out personal themes of place, family and relationships performed by class musicians. Tom Heyman moved to San Francisco with his wife Deirdre White over 20 years ago and after several moves […]
Artwork for Malena Cadiz album Hellbent And Moonbound
Album Reviews

Malena Cadiz “Hellbent And Moonbound”

December 19, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0
First album in seven years sees Malena Cadiz reach for classic LA sound. Malena Cadiz’s last album, ‘Sunfair’, was released in 2016.  The intervening seven years has seen Cadiz move homes, become a mother and working […]

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The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October

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Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway

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Matraca Berg

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

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows

July 30, 2026 0
Live stream available if you can’t make it! Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) has shared the initial lineup for its 2026 edition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Friday 2nd October to Sunday 4th October 2026. […]
News

The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October

July 30, 2026 0
Richard Thompson will release his 20th studio album, Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, on October 16th via New West Records. The 12-track set was produced by Thompson and James Frazee and recorded in Weehawken, New Jersey. It […]
Tracks

Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway

July 30, 2026 0
Kate Prascher’s new single Thousand A Million entwines the physical with the metaphysical in an intriguing and beguiling folk song that plays with notions of time and space (no, not like Dr Who).  Kate Prascher describes […]

  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows
  • The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October
  • Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway
  • Video: Elanor Moss “The Way That It Feels” – A song about not turning away, but turning towards
  • 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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  • Graeme Tait: 3 1/2 years, Fred, and not the slightest pressure to come up with any new features. What's wrong with that?…

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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 […]
Interviews

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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Video: Bird “Havana Garden” – love and miracles in place of mourning

June 5, 2026 0
Lose yourself in Havana Garden, the elegant new single from Janie Price, also known as Bird. This is a thing of fragile beauty; the sweetest of melodies, lilting and ethereal, slowly unfolds as Bird’s velvet-smooth voice […]
Tracks

Lisa Akuah “Bubbles” – Listen

August 24, 2020 0
Not, thankfully, a song about isolation and the community bubbles people are advised to restrict their meeting of others to.  We don’t think we could have taken that.  No, Lisa Akuah’s soft sounding but rather biting […]
Album Reviews

Joe Stamm Band “The Good & The Crooked (& The High & The Horny)” (Independent, 2020)

September 17, 2020 0
When an album kicks in, as the title song of ‘The Good & The Crooked (& The High & The Horny)’ does, with a brittle guitar riff and a voice that is quintessentially “country”, expectations start […]

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