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We Are The West “The Golden Shore” (Independent, 2018)

May 8, 2018 Mark Johnson 1
For the last 6 years, on the Saturday before each full moon, We Are The West transform an everyday Los Angeles underground car park into a performance space where their concerts are supported by, and collaborations […]
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Gretchen Peters “Dancing With The Beast” (Proper Records, 2018)

May 8, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
A new album from Gretchen Peters is always cause for celebration. She has consistently been one of the finest songwriters in the Americana genre and just seems to go from strength to strength – it is […]
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Aisha Badru “Pendulum” (Nettwerk, 2018)

May 8, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
It’s really all Volkswagen’s fault. Back in 2016 they licensed a song from an unknown young singer to soundtrack one of their adverts. Pocketing the money, Aisha Badru, a Yonkers, New York singer-songwriter set about recording […]
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Ivan Moult “Longest Shadow” (Bubblewrap Records, 2018)

May 8, 2018 Scott Baxter 0
Throw a dart in the air of any hamlet, village, town or city in the UK and the chances are it’ll land on the head of an introverted and melancholic singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar, a […]
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Brother Dege “Farmer’s Almanac” (Psyouthern Records, 2018)

May 4, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
You can feel the heat and humidity in this homage to rough, rural life; the grit, grime and sweat involved in dragging a living out of the ground as a poor sharecropper just oozes out of […]

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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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Ringo Starr “Long Long Road”

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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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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]

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