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Soul Asylum “Hurry Up and Wait” (Blue Élan Records, 2020)

April 27, 2020 Ewan Lury 0
Soul Asylum, the Grammy award-winning band, are back for the first time in four years with their album ‘Hurry Up and Wait’, sporting a different line-up to their most successful era of the early 90s, but […]
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Peter Oren “The Greener Pastures” (Western Vinyl, 2020)

April 24, 2020 Alan Fitter 0
Peter Oren’s latest album ‘The Greener Pastures’ with its mentions of death, being fenced in, loneliness, isolation, phone dependence and its overall melancholic tone, could be seen as a prophet and seer in this age of […]
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Lucinda Williams “Good Souls Better Angels” (Highway 20 / Thirty Tigers, 2020)

April 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1
The broad-church of Americana sometimes divides us. But one thing that most fans would agree on is that artists like Lucinda Williams personify the spirit and sound of the genre. Williams is the sort of musician […]
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Miranda Mulholland “By Appointment Or Chance” (Roaring Girl Records, 2019)

April 23, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Miranda Mulholland has a gift for the co-incidental, and the very existence of her new album ‘By Appointment or Chance‘ is a reflection of this. It see’s Canadian Mulholland return to her folk roots for a […]
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Pinewood “All Things With Symmetry” (Independent, 2020)

April 23, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0
Pinewood is songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Kempe whose debut EP ‘All Things With Symmetry’ is the perfect lockdown music. Listening to these four atmospheric folk-rock pieces feels like breaking through dense woods into a brightly […]

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Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2
Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]
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Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0
Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]
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Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0
Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

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Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1
As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]
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Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0
Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]

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Now this will brighten up anybody’s day.  A loving spoof of O Brother, Where Art Thou accompanies a great song, replete with harmonies and jangle, from the double 2018 UK Americana Award nominated Danny George Wilson, Robin […]
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Something for the weekend: Darlingside “Green + Evergreen (Distantly Social Sessions)”

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That’s it from us for another week dear reader, as many of us settle down for a locked down weekend with Netflix or maybe Sky Arts if you’re feeling adventurous. We might even know who the […]
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Rodney Crowell announces new Jeff Tweedy produced album “The Chicago Sessions” – Listen

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New West Records have announced the release of a new album by Rodney Crowell, ‘The Chicago Sessions’ which lands on May 5th, 2023, via New West Records. The 10-song set was produced by Jeff Tweedy and […]

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