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[ July 13, 2026 ] For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone” Features
[ July 13, 2026 ] Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free” Album Reviews
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More People Really Should Know About: Charm Of Finches

July 7, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Approaching this feature is always really difficult; starting from a position of identifying someone that the wider world doesn’t know well enough and that their lives would be enriched by, if only they had a wider […]

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

June 30, 2026 Helen Jones 2

On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]

The Barefoot Movement @ Staion Inn, Nashville Sptember 2019

More People Really Should Know About: The Barefoot Movement

June 23, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

The Barefoot Movement are a string band from North Carolina built around childhood sweethearts now husband, wife and parents, Tommy Norris and Noah Wall. I first came across them at Skipper’s Smokehouse, a beer and deep-fried […]

More People Really Should Know About: Leaf Rapids

June 16, 2026 Bryan Bance 2

In the tradition of bands naming themselves after specific places or landmarks, Winnipeg-based Leaf Rapids are named for a remote town in northwest Manitoba. Not necessarily easy to locate on a map, anyone would be hard-pressed […]

Mark Selby at Troublesome, Colorado, 26th August 2007

More People Really Should Know About: Mark Otis Selby

June 9, 2026 David Jarman 0

Checking on Americana UK’s past references to Mark Otis Selby finds only my own pick as No 10 in my top 10 americana albums back in 2020, so it’s definitely the case that more people should […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

July 13, 2026 2

Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter […]

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

July 13, 2026 1

No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart. Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club […]

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]