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Sat in my shed listening to music, and writing about some of it. Occasionally allowed out to attend gigs.
Features

VERSIONS: “Hot Burrito #1/ I’m Your Toy”

April 19, 2021 Tim Martin 1
In our VERSIONS series this week, which takes a look at different versions of the same song, we look back to a stone-cold classic from the Burritos which went on to be covered by… well, read […]
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Bob Bradshaw “The Ghost Light”

April 13, 2021 Tim Martin 0
A well-crafted album, excellent music and some fine storytelling. Bob Bradshaw’s last album ‘Queen of The West’ was a concept album with a single story woven through the songs. This time each song on ‘The Ghost […]
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Discovering Dylan

March 25, 2021 Tim Martin 1
One of the (few) advantages of the last year has been the chance to fill in the blanks in my musical education. And one of the big blanks was Bob Dylan. How had I managed to […]
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Album Reviews

José McGill & The Vagaband “White Noise”

March 22, 2021 Tim Martin 0
A showcase for their TV appearance that will certainly win new fans for their music. This EP is released on the back of recording the soundtrack for, and appear in, the TV awareness campaign for the […]
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Harbottle and Jonas “The Beacon”

March 9, 2021 Tim Martin 0
Traditional folk for the 21st century, richly textured playing on fine songs. “Lockdown albums” have become commonplace. Some are good, some seem more designed to while away the time. Very few have been genuinely great. ‘The […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0
Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]
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Album Reviews

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0
Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0
Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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  • For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”
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Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
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 […]
Interviews

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

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
Interviews

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

March 4, 2026 2
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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Video: Eilen Jewell “Crawl”

July 2, 2019 0
Eilen Jewell has a new album, ‘Gypsy’, out on August 16th, and this excellent slinky Americana groove, all about the joys of a rambling lifestyle, is taken from it.
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Something for the weekend: Wilco “Tired of Taking It Out On You”

May 13, 2022 0
Well, that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We heard some sad news last night that Americana UK writer Gordon Sharpe, one of the stalwarts of the site in recent years, suffered a stroke […]
Album Reviews

Danni Nicholls “Under the Neem Plum Tree”

September 17, 2024 0
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and forever they shall meet… in their love of country music. ‘Under The Neem Plum Tree’ is a case in point. Danni Nicholls’ third studio album takes for […]

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