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Classic Clips : Nils Lofgren with Grin

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No apologies here for going back to the dark old days of 1973, another world really when it was still legal to discriminate against half of the UK population on the grounds that they were women. […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 32

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Hope not hate – seemed a good idea at the time and still is! I am now on half term so this will be a short one. It’s not often that news events crash into my […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 31

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Looking forward to a week in the van Half term is coming and with it the thought of a week in the trusty van firstly alongside the Oxford canal and then onto the wilds of broadest […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Bear Family Records

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Setting off from last week’s Felice Brothers’ ‘Jazz On The Autobahn’ let’s connect with something to do with highways. If that sounds too easy we shall stick with that exact German definition and see what adventure […]
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Classic Clips: Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young & Jones

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The Sixties were a strange time.  A time when popular chart artists might be given their own television variety show on which they could showcase their own talents and have musical guests brighten up proceedings.  Sometimes […]

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Kenny Shore “Happiness & Misery”

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High-quality songwriting makes quietly expressive, personal record. Kenny Shore is not the kind of artist you stumble across via hype. He doesn’t have the infrastructure, profile, or touring machine that typically drives attention; he doesn’t even […]
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Austin singer-songwriter Alex Amen announces debut album for June

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Alex Amen, the 26-year-old indie folk-country singer-songwriter from Texas, has announced his debut album, Sun of Amen, which will be out on 12th June 2026 via ATO Records. Newly signed to the label, Amen’s full-length debut […]
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Benjamin Tod “Vengeance and Grace”

April 22, 2026 0
An experienced and honest songwriter explores both sides of his stylistic background, performing the same songs twice. In a career of around 20 years, this appears to be Tod’s 21st album, either primarily with the Lost […]

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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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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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Now here’s something important.  It’s the powerful new single from the Gary Douglas Band, just out, and it deals with the dreadful consequences of the DuPont Corporation dumping cancer-inducing chemicals in the Ohio river.  As well […]
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Yo La Tengo “Sleepless Night” EP (Matador, 2020)

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Yo La Tengo return with an EP collaboration with artist Yoshitomo Nara, to accompany his major retrospective at LACMA. Two decades ago when they first met, he was the fanboy. Whilst they have continued to churn […]
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The Wild Feathers “Alvarado”

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Fourth studio album from harmonious, southern rockers. In December 2020, having just independently released ‘Medium Rarities’, an odds-and-ends compilation which included three self-produced new songs, The Wild Flowers convened in a pre-Civil War built cabin near […]

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