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Americana UK writers choose their albums of 2020

December 22, 2020 Mark Whitfield 6
We’ve reached the end of perhaps the most unconventional year in most of our lifetimes, but music has been that constant companion, even though our capacity to cope with acoustic covers albums has perhaps been pushed […]
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Cum on feel the Noiz – Jon Aird’s Review of 2020

December 22, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1
  It goes without saying that this has been a terrible year in many ways – trade you a pandemic against the bizarre play out of politics in the USA. And then conflate them – now […]
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Dan Friese takes ‘The Twang Factor’ S1 runner-up slot

December 22, 2020 Clint West 0
Having yesterday revealed West on Colfax in third place, today we can announce the runner-up of The Twang Factor. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Dan Friese blew us away with the energy and enthusiasm of his performance. The […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Until the End of the World “Just Let Go”

December 21, 2020 Sean Hannam 1
I panicked when I first saw the link in last week’s Chain Gang, which was Lori McKenna’s ‘Humble and Kind’, as I didn’t know either the artist or the song. Then I did some digging around […]
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Riches in Lockdown: Helen Jones’s Review of 2020

December 21, 2020 Helen Jones 2
It’s true that 2020 has been a disappointing year for many reasons, but one of the bright spots has been the massive amount of music we’ve been handed. In what was a veritable embarrassment of riches, […]

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Book of Churches “Book of Churches”

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Gentle songs of quiet reflection for staying grounded in hurried times. Hot on the heels of last year’s critically acclaimed release, Divorce singer and guitarist Felix Mackenzie-Barrow returns with the eponymously titled debut album from his […]
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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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