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Tar and Flowers “Indian Summer” (Independent, 2018)

March 27, 2018 Mark Nenadic 0
A debut record from the greener, non-plastic reaches of greater Los Angeles. Principally it’s the musical labours of Taylor Hungerford, assisted by French born sidekick Wolf Kroeger. Between them, they’ve cooked up something quite noteworthy. Hungerford’s […]
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Louis Brennan “Dead Capital” (Independent, 2018)

March 27, 2018 Dave Jennings 0
Painful, searing lyrics, darkness so bleak you feel you’ll never find a way out, but then laugh out loud moments that are life-affirming in their intensity. Such are the contradictions in this offering, as rich and […]
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Kim Richey “Edgeland” (Yep Roc Records, 2018)

March 26, 2018 Denis Parkinson 1
‘Edgeland’ is the new album from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Kim Richey. There has been a five year wait for this and it has been worth it. Recorded in Nashville and produced by Brad Jones, it’s a collaborative album […]
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Frozen Houses “Frozen Houses” (Independent, 2018)

March 26, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
This is the eponymous debut album from Cornwall based singer/songwriter Alex Hill, aka ‘Frozen Houses’. It’s an interesting package, full of confidently delivered songs and some good musicianship but it is something of a strange confection. […]
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Vissia “Placeholder” (Hurry Hard Records, 2017)

March 26, 2018 Paul Kerr 4
From Alberta Canada, Vissia is singer songwriter Alex Vissia who here offers us nine songs born from experience, “This album is a collection of songs, each holding a place in my experiential past.  Like any memory, […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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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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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

April 21, 2026 0
Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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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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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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The next entrant in Twang Factor 4 is Jon Harmon, who is a singer-songwriter based in Velletri, Italy.  Harmon has been performing and writing songs for years, but found his true voice only lately. “I am […]
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Yusuf / Cat Stevens starts album reissue series

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Yusuf (previously known as Cat Stevens) has announced the start of a series of reissues of his classic singer-songwriter albums, starting with the last to be released under the Cat Stevens name: 1978’s ‘Back to Earth‘.  […]
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The Devil Makes Three “Spirits”

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Two’s company, but three’s a crowd, especially when the third is the devil. “Spirits” is the first new album in seven years by the genre-bending Americana band the Devil Makes Three, their long-awaited follow-up to the […]

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