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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 – Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band

September 19, 2019 Rick Bayles 12
Being a bit of a vinyl junkie I was indulging my passion for Record Fairs recently when I came across something of a lost gem – “Rick Sings Nelson” – and that started me thinking about […]
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Boy & Bear “Suck On Light” (Nettwerk Music Group, 2019)

August 23, 2019 Rick Bayles 0
Great art often comes out of personal suffering. This new album from Australian band Boy & Bear may not be great art but it’s certainly good music. ‘Suck on Light’ is the fourth studio album from the […]
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Forgotten Artists – Steve Goodman

August 22, 2019 Rick Bayles 4
Every so often the world of roots music will deliver an outstanding talent – a Robert Johnson or a Bob Dylan – someone who really makes everyone sit up and take notice, someone you know will […]
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Book Review – “The 33 1/3 B-Sides” edited by Will Stockton and D. Gilson (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

August 14, 2019 Rick Bayles 0
This is a lot of reading for the money! I’ve reviewed a number of books from this series over the past few months; usually a 33 1/3 book consists of an in-depth assessment of a key […]
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E.G. Phillips “At Home At Sea” (Independent, 2019)

August 6, 2019 Rick Bayles 0
As a singer/songwriter it’s always considered an advantage to have a distinctive voice – but can a voice be a little too “distinctive”? You can argue that a very distinctive voice never harmed the sales of […]

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The devil may have all the best tunes but six months and many songs down the line from this feature’s inaugural selection, the erudition and impeccable taste of my esteemed colleagues mean that many of the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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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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Nadine Khouri “The Salted Air” (One Flash Records 2017)

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With a list of influences that are as broad as they are intriguing, the debut by Nadine Khouri, promises a great deal: interesting Lebanese heritage, production by John Parish (the chap that made PJ Harvey, messed with […]
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Live music is a life-enhancing thing A brilliant weekend followed a fairly typical one in school (i.e. pastoral issues aplenty, mock exam panic for Yr11s and assemblies on bullying and remembrance). And why was the weekend […]

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