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AmericanA to Z: The Accident That Led Me To The World

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TATLMTTW are exactly the kind of band that gave rise to the idea for this column , they made a couple of really good records and then disappeared. Firstly the self-titled release from 2005 that we […]
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2016 : we’re lost in music – caught in a trap.

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You could point at almost any year this century and it would be a vintage year for music – there’s so much out there that, once one has struggled through the ever expanding amount that is […]
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AmericanA to Z: A.A. Bondy

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Welcome to the first in an ongoing series of explorations of Americana UK’s digital library. We’re going to explore our digital music collection to try to unearth some hidden gems and to remind everyone of artists that […]

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Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

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One of the success stories of the last couple of years have been Brown Horse. Since their first album Reservoir landed at the start of 2024 there has been a steady rise in their star, to […]
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Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”

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Lauderdale releases a worthy, heartfelt follow-up twenty years later. At the age of sixty-eight, Jim Lauderdale is in top form, his voice as good as ever. The iconic songwriter, now a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame […]
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Stephen Wilson Jr. has released the latest dates for his Gary The Torch Tour, which, in addition to shows in the US West Coast and Southeast, include a series of UK and European  dates.  The tour […]

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