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Artwork for Tucker Zimmerman Over Here in Europe on Big Potato Records
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Tucker Zimmerman “Over Here In Europe”

August 10, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0
A warm album made up of strong but intimate songs wrapped in imaginative arrangements. The Big Potato reissue of Tucker Zimmerman’s ‘Over Here In Europe’ represents the first time it has been reissued on vinyl (it […]
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Gregory Alan Isakov “Appaloosa Bones”

August 10, 2023 FredArnold 0
The singing songwriting farmer from Boulder Colorado continues the magic on album number six. Gregory Alan Isakov was born in South Africa, raised in Philadelphia and now lives in Colorado where he has a farm that […]
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Birds of Play “Bird Songs of the American West”

August 9, 2023 Tim Martin 0
The traditional string band updated for the 21st century, with contemplative words over a magical blend of instruments. Birds of Play call themselves “an Americana Roots quartet based in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado”. […]
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The Burrito Brothers “Together”

August 9, 2023 Martin Johnson 4
We may not be in the Gilded Palace of Sin but it is country rock with a ‘70s vibe. This is potentially a difficult album to review objectively because of the simple fact that ‘Together’ is […]
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Sean Taylor “Short Stories”

August 8, 2023 Andrew Raw 0
Blues-influenced americana with poetic lyrics. London singer-songwriter Sean Taylor has plied his trade for the last two decades, spending a lot of this time on the road. He has supported acts such as Robert Cray, John […]

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As we head into the bank holiday weekend, we wanted to remind you about Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK, which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker […]
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Todd Albright “Blues for Dexter Linwood”

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Authentic pre-war country blues played by an acclaimed 12-string master. This is Albright’s fourth album of acoustic country blues, played finger-picked style on a 12-string guitar. An acknowledged master of this style of playing, Albright doesn’t […]

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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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The original premise of these articles was to illustrate my career in teaching whilst enduring lockdown and as the articles progressed it unfurled its brief to encompass all manner of moans, observations, nitpicking and flights of […]
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Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes “As Long As It’s Not Us”

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Darkness and light from the suburbs of Melbourne. Out of the South East suburbs of Melbourne, Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes have emerged to bring us a collection of songs that traverse through an emotional landscape […]
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