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[ September 3, 2026 ] My Girl The River “Manifest Good Things” Album Reviews
[ September 3, 2026 ] Classic Clip: Pieta Brown with Bo Ramsey “Bad News” – venue unknown, 2010 Classic Clips
[ September 3, 2026 ] Anniversary Cheers: case/lang/veirs celebrates 10 years Anniversary Cheers
[ September 3, 2026 ] Alex Dupree “Talking To The Dog” Album Reviews
[ September 3, 2026 ] Live Review: Thunder and Rain, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 28th August 2026 Live Reviews

For the Sake of the Song: Jefferson Airplane “Comin’ Back to Me”

March 30, 2026 Hugo Simoes 0

If I were to casually name-drop Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow (1967), you might find yourself thinking about Grace Slick’s voice bellowing through Somebody to Love, or the rolling-drum acid-trip stylings of White Rabbit. God knows those […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 A.Francis Tritico 1

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

The Byrds from Hi Parader magazine = December 1968

For The Sake Of The Song: The Byrds “You Don’t Miss Your Water”

March 16, 2026 Andrew Raw 0

The wonderful You Don’t Miss Your Water, from The Byrds’ seminal 1968 Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album, was first written and recorded on the Stax label by soul singer William Bell in 1961. Bell was the […]

Justin Townes Earle live at Fitzgeralds, Houston, TX 3rd May 2012

For the Sake of the Song: Justin Townes Earle “Harlem River Blues”

March 2, 2026 FredArnold 0

Justin Townes Earle stands tall in the pantheon of singer-songwriters in the americana theatre. The son of one of the most universally acclaimed exponents of the genre (Steve Earle) and named after another (Townes van Zandt), […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”

February 16, 2026 Tim Martin 1

The TV series Stranger Things has become a place for songs of all sorts to find a new place in the sun. Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill and Peter Gabriel’s cover of Heroes amongst many […]

My Girl The River “Manifest Good Things”

September 3, 2026 0

Melody and heartfelt ruminations on family, life and love combine to winning effect on a timeless album. My Girl The River sees Kris Wilkinson Hughes collaborating with husband Joe and daughter Rue, and this wonderfully honest […]

Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey Temecula March 2010

Classic Clip: Pieta Brown with Bo Ramsey “Bad News” – venue unknown, 2010

September 3, 2026 0

Pieta Brown (53) is the daughter of beloved folk singer-songwriter Greg Brown with whom she reunited after a rather bohemian lifestyle following her parents’ separation when she was 2 years old. At the time she was […]

Anniversary Cheers: case/lang/veirs celebrates 10 years

September 3, 2026 0

Outstanding one-off album is re-released together with an album of live tracks from the tour that accompanied the album, plus a new song (on vinyl and CD). case/lang/veirs was released in 2016. In keeping with the […]