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Luan Parle “Never Say Goodbye” (LPR Records, 2020)

March 18, 2020 Clint West 0
Luan Parle has had an interesting journey. Her first album was released when she was 12 years old. ‘Never Say Goodbye’ is her fourth album, twenty-five years after that debut and ten years since her last release ‘Full Circle’ in […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Chris Stapleton “From A Room: Volume 2” (Mercury Nashville, 2017)

March 17, 2020 Ewan Lury 0
When I was asked to write a review about a classic Americana album, I myself had one main issue. As someone who is only 19 and who really found their way into Americana music through country […]
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Carolyn Kendrick “Tear Things Apart” (Independent, 2020)

March 17, 2020 Paul Kerr 0
Apparently from a folk and bluegrass background, primarily as a fiddler, Carolyn Kendrick’s first release under her own name, hovers, not uneasily, between folk and slightly soulful pop. The six-song disc opens with the very tasty […]
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Jennah Barry “Holiday” (Forward Music Group, 2020)

March 17, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 0
Phrases like charming, lovely or sweet are deemed as virtual insults these days – anaemic praise for something soft or unconvincing – but Jennah Barry’s new album, ‘Holiday’, deserves all these descriptions in the most positive way. […]
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KaiL Baxley “Beneath the Bones” (Antifragile, 2020)

March 16, 2020 Harold Hogan 0
“I’ve been running for such a long time”, sings KaiL Baxley on ‘Beneath the Bones’, the title track from his latest album. Indeed, it seems that he has, having lived a life that is almost filmic; […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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Italian alt-country pioneers from the earliest days of the genre return with their own take on aching melancholy. The making of their new album, From Nowhere Revisited, represents quite a journey for Satellite Inn.  Formed in […]
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Dean Owens & The Southerners, Sounds In The Suburbs @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 15th December 2019

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The irony of this cross border trio appearing in Glasgow in the wake of an election which saw England and Scotland diametrically opposed was not lost on Dean Owens tonight. The prankster in him surreptitiously arranged […]

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