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Jim Keller “Spark and Flame”

December 7, 2022 Andrew Raw 0
Great musicianship with eighties influences. Jim Keller was the guitarist and chief songwriter for the San Francisco group, Tommy Tutone, who had a couple of power-pop hits in the eighties, the most famous being ‘867-5309/ Jenny’. […]
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Boulder Fields “Falkirk Attic Demos”

December 7, 2022 Rick Bayles 0
Folkier reinventions of a hard-rocking past. This EP (5 tracks) is the debut release from new Scottish outfit, Boulder Fields, consisting of singer/songwriter Cam Fraser, fiddle player Amy Geddes and mandolin player Iain McCleod. It’s a […]
Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven?
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Tyler Childers “Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven”

December 6, 2022 Andy Davidson 2
Self-produced project featuring eight tracks performed in three different ways. There can’t be many reading this who don’t know of Tyler Childers. Following his second album ‘Purgatory’, Childers was named emerging artist of the year at […]
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Dawn Riding “You’re Still Here”

December 6, 2022 FredArnold 0
A little dark and angry, Sarah Rose Janko serves up another fine album. Dawn Riding is essentially Sarah Rose Janko (singer/songwriter/guitar player) and her musical colleagues Jasmyn Wong (drums) and Hall McCann (electric guitar and vocals), […]
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Elizabeth Moen “Wherever You Aren’t”

December 5, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0
Reflecting on life through indie rock, folk and soul. Less americana and more indie rock, pop, folk with a generous measure of soul this is a record of big sound. Dipping back only occasionally to the […]

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An accessible and literate roots-rock gem. Renowned for her energetic and charismatic live persona (and also for being an award -winning English professor; yes, really), Florence Dore returns with the follow-up to 2022’s Highways and Rocketships. […]
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Hannah Cohen to tour Europe UK in August and releases new single

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Catskills-based singer/songwriter Hannah Cohen has announced a series of tour dates in the Nordic countries and the UK in August 2026. Cohen has also unveiled her first new music since her album Earthstar Mountain that was […]
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Live Review: Truman Sinclair + May Payne, The George Tavern, Stepney, London – 28th April 2026

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Travelling from London’s centre, the “Lizzy line” as it is colloquially known, takes you to Whitechapel in the East End in under eight minutes. Unless you make a pitstop at The Blind Beggar, the scene of […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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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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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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Californian singer/songwriter Jesse Daniel has announced new album ‘Countin’ The Miles’, which is due out on 7th June via Lightning Rod Records. Daniel considers himself a country artist but does it his own way leading to […]
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