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Ten Americana songs about telephony

August 13, 2020 Rick Bayles 4
Where would the world of Americana be without Alexander Graham Bell’s little invention? How could anyone call their Baby to let them know they’re coming home to them? How else could they pour their heart out […]
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Classic Americana Albums: John Murry “The Graceless Age” (Bucketfull of Brains, 2012)

August 12, 2020 Sean Hannam 0
I owe a lot to Uncut magazine. In September 1998, the publication gave away a compilation CD called ‘Sounds of the New West’, which opened my eyes – and ears – to alt-country and Americana. A […]
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AmericanA to Z: Old Crow Medicine Show

August 11, 2020 David Jarman 1
I was privileged to see Old Crow Medicine Show as an unknown emerging band in the UK, when they stole the show at Cambridge Folk Festival in 2004. I caught them at the Mojo press tent, […]
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Interview: Richard Davies talks about his new album and creativity under Covid

August 11, 2020 Mark Underwood 0
A favourite lockdown release of 2020 and an album that’s rarely off the decks at AUK Towers is Richard Davies and the Dissidents’ debut album, ‘Human Traffic’.  From the rollicking “grab-life -by-the-scruff-of-the-neck” title track to the […]
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VERSIONS – “These Days”

August 10, 2020 Paul Villers 4
Here we are again with “VERSIONS” – our look at the songs, the performers and the interpretations by performers of the songs. This time around Gordon Sharpe casts his eye over over the song ‘These Days’ […]

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A stylistically diverse album with more than a hint of rock, covering themes of motion memory, love and loss. Lee began her career playing rhythm guitar and providing the vocals for The Mortals and Split the […]
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Viarosa’s Richard Neuberg emerges from a sixteen year hiatus with “The Vine”

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Richard Neuberg has announced his new album, The Vine, will be released on the 29th of May and has shared the first single, Saltwater which you can watch the video for below. Richard is best known as […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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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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Pick of the political pops: Steve Earle “John Walker’s Blues”

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In a week where it seems like there’s almost nothing new under the sun to say about Brexit that hasn’t been said a million times over, in today’s Pops we cast our minds back to the […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 130 – “The wheels on the bus”

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Thirty-five years ago I drove my first school bus. This may come as no surprise to regular readers of this column but to some it may be a surprise that their favourite columnist/radio host/retired school teacher […]
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Video: Ron Pope “Bad for Your Health”

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From the album Work, out on August 18th comes this great song and fun video from Ron Pope.  He’ll be over in the UK in November too.

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