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Shuffle: A Scottish Summer

July 23, 2021 David Cowling 0

This week a collision of circumstances gave me the idea for this column. Firstly I had to abandon my initial idea for the column, as it turns out not everything is on the internet (more about […]

Shuffle: European Championship Special

June 18, 2021 David Cowling 0

With the Euros dominating the media agenda at the moment it got me to thinking how much do I really know about Americana music in the countries that are a part of 2020? I found myself […]

Shuffle: The joy of repetition

June 4, 2021 David Cowling 0

As you should know by now if you have been following this column, whatever I write is inspired by whatever comes up on my iPod in shuffle mode. This week I was minded to interrupt the […]

Shuffle: Is Robert Pollard is rock music’s Picasso?

May 21, 2021 David Cowling 1

After visiting a Picasso exhibition my friend said ‘I didn’t realise he could actually draw’. What she meant by this was that, to her, drawing and painting is a naturalistic representation of the world; she mistook […]

Shuffle: Bluegaze (could have been worse, try Shoegrass)

April 23, 2021 David Cowling 0

A lot of the music that I listen to would not make it into even the loosest definition of Americana and as the purists would have it, I have already spent an awfully long time eulogising […]