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A Brexit Britain escapee who now lives in SW France. Wine, cheese and good music are my 'raisons d'être'.
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Forgotten Artists – Kieran Kane

June 17, 2020 Rick Bayles 1
There was a time, in the late ‘90s and early 2000s when Kieran Kane seemed to be Mr. Americana. He released four excellent solo albums over a seven-year period and built a strong following, particularly in […]
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Book Review: Ruth Charnock “Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings” (Bloomsbury 2020)

June 11, 2020 Rick Bayles 0
This book made its debut in hardback in January of last year and now gets its awaited paperback release. Ruth Charnock, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, has pulled together a fascinating collection […]
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Crushwater “The Wasteland” (Independent, 2020)

June 10, 2020 Rick Bayles 0
Crushwater is Scott Sullivan on guitar/vocals, Chandra Johnson on Violin/Vocals, Enoch Bowlby on Bass and John Carlson on Drums and they hail from Port Angeles in Washington State. The keystone of this band is the interplay […]
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Forgotten Artists – Lynn Miles

June 5, 2020 Rick Bayles 2
I’m always quite taken aback by the number of Americana fans I meet who’ve never heard of Lynn Miles – an Award-winning singer/songwriter with some fifteen solo albums across a recording career that spans over 30 […]
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Stripmall Ballads “Distant” (Freeloader Free Press, 2020)

May 28, 2020 Rick Bayles 0
Now, these are not the happiest of times, obviously, but why do so many new albums coming from singer/songwriters have to be so relentlessly miserable? Even a miserable song with a jaunty tune would be a […]

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Sons of Bill “Oh God Ma’am” (Loose Records, 2018)

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