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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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Exhibition: Mondo Scripto – The Lyrics and Drawings of Bob Dylan (Halcyon Gallery, 2018)

November 15, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
We all know that Dylan is one of the World’s great songwriters but how many of us knew that he’s also a very accomplished painter, illustrator and sculptor? A new exhibition, currently running at London’s Halcyon […]
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The Frank Burkitt Band “Raconteur” (Independent, 2018)

November 14, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
A Scot, making Americana music out of New Zealand – and making a fine job of it too! It says much for this genre of music that it can take a lot of diverse influences and […]
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Book Review: Clinton Heylin “What We Did Instead of Holidays (Route Publishing, 2018)

November 6, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
Given the number of books that have been written about the various members of Fairport Convention and the band itself, you might be forgiven for thinking that there’s very little left to say about them; but […]
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Kazyak “Reflection” (Independent, 2018)

October 30, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
Kazyak songwriter/guitarist Peter Frey describes their newest release, “Reflection” as “an attempt to create surreal, vivid, Dali-esque images with our sound — it’s a collection of outtakes, demos, and b-sides consistent with our history of not-trying-to-be-mainstream […]
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Stills & Collins “Everybody Knows” (Cleopatra Records, 2018)

October 15, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
Sometimes you can be genuinely surprised by an album for any number of reasons. In this case, it’s the surprise of seeing these two artists recording together in 2018. There’s no obvious reason why they shouldn’t […]

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Power pop déjà vu, delivered with infectious youthful exuberance. Forty years ago, New Musical Express journalist David Quantick suggested that pop culture was becoming increasingly self-referential, to the point of exhaustion, ultimately predicting that “pop would […]
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Video Premiere: Brooklyn Del & The Revelators “You and I”

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]

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Michelle Shocked returns to UK for dates

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Described in the press release as the “Godmother of Americana”, the sometimes excellent Michelle Shocked returns to our shores next month, hopefully in a less biblical mood than 2013, for a series of dates.  The tour […]
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Craig Finn “People Of Substance” – good to hang around with

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Taking a break from his regular day job as frontman of the Hold Steady, Craig Finn is preparing his latest solo album for release on April 4th.  On ‘Always Been‘ Finn has been working with Adam […]
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Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves “Sunnyside” – a jig, by god, and what a jig

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Here it is, Wednesday again and we have a splendid instrumental to tempt your ears with – today’s example of that genre is the appropriate enough ‘Sunnyside’ taken from the new EP ‘Hurricane Clarice: Outtakes, Vol.1‘ […]

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