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Thee Holy Brothers “High In My Balloon”

April 15, 2025 Jonny Brick 0
Sixties homage that sets a cancer journey to different musical styles. Thee Holy Brothers is a supergroup of sorts, formed of Willie Aron and Marvin Etzioni, whose full CVs would take up this entire review. Etzioni […]
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Sue Harding “The World”

April 15, 2025 Tim Martin 0
Reflections on life, change and survival. Modern folk music which doesn’t rest in the past. Since her last album ‘Darkling,’ Harding has entered a new stage of life. ‘The World’ is named for the tarot card. […]
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Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters “Good Morning Sunshine”

April 14, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Joyfully keeping the faith. It’s one thing to form a band full of talented women, it’s another to create an expansive collective along the Pacific coast of over a dozen women in bluegrass, country, and Americana […]
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Hamilton Leithauser “This Side Of The Island”

April 14, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Former frontman for The Walkmen plays to his strengths on highly energetic third solo album. Almost two years on from the triumphant reunion tour for the legendary indie rock band The Walkmen, lead vocalist Hamilton Leithauser […]
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Songdog “Mirabilla Mundi”

April 11, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Aging successfully requires the right kind of reminiscing. Welsh songwriter Lyndon Morgans’ ninth album is back to being Songdog and returning to some familiar themes, such as the passing of time, lost love, nostalgia and death. […]

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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alynda Segarra 3rd May 2014
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Essentials: The Top 10 Hurrah For The Riff Raff Songs

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In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurrah For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]
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José González “Against The Dying Of The Light”

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first thoughts José González is a Swedish indie-folk singer – with, naturally, the usual background in hardcore punk influenced by Black Flag and choral singing – Against The Dying Of The Light is his fifth album, […]
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Bedouine, the project of LA-based musician Azniv Korkejian, releases her new album, Neon Summer Skin, on 5th June 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Across Neon Summer Skin, Korkejian intentionally returned to the instruments she played as a […]

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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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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Something for the weekend: Hudson Freeman “If You Know Me”

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Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a brand new song from Broolyn-based Hudson Freeman. Born to Evangelical missionaries, Freeman started writing songs upon a radical break at the […]
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Classic Clips: Elvis Costello “Cowgirl in the Sand” Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver, 2010

March 3, 2023 0
Costello and Young have got history through the former’s appearances at the latter’s Bridge concerts even appearing on stage together to rip up ‘Down By The River’ which can be found on YouTube too but for […]
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Dan Parsons “Sunday Morning Cinema”(Metropolitan Groove Merchants, 2018)

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Where is the next great Americana album going to come from? How about out of Queensland, Australia? That isn’t exactly true; Dan Parsons’ fourth album ‘Sunday Morning Cinema’ was recorded in Melbourne. But Parsons himself grew […]

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