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Interview: Counting Crows with Love from A(dam) to (durit)Z

June 23, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

It was thirty-two years ago when Adam Duritz of Counting Crows wrote a song about wanting to be famous, a rock ‘n’ roll star. He worried about being a one-hit wonder with ‘Mr. Jones’s, which of […]

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Interview: The Brother Brothers – What’s going on?

June 18, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

This interview took place just before The Brother Brothers left the US for a tour in Australia, which was cancelled when David Moss passed out while swimming in the surf and nearly drowned. You know we’ve […]

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Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]

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Interview: Chatham Rabbits can pull from a hatful of songs

May 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

It’s hard to pin down and stamp a genre like a Notary Public would on Chatham Rabbits. The husband-and-wife duo of Austin and Sarah McCombie started out in bluegrass and old-timey music, but they have taken […]

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Interview: Jennifer Castle opens the door into her world of song

May 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

We are here to talk about the Earth Mother, We are here to talk about the Arthurian Damsel. We are here to talk about an imaginative chimera and a darker rose. We are here to talk […]

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Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists

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Various Artists “Music For Roads”

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Sugarfoot “Cosmic Norse Americana”

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July 17, 2025 0
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Clarence Tilton “Queen Of The Brawl”

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Live Review: BEATrio, Cadogan Hall, London – 9th & 10th July 2025

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  • Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists
  • Various Artists “Music For Roads”
  • Sugarfoot “Cosmic Norse Americana”
  • Clarence Tilton “Queen Of The Brawl”
  • Live Review: BEATrio, Cadogan Hall, London – 9th & 10th July 2025
  • Mallory Johnson “Over The Party”
  • Josh Ritter “Truth Is A Dimension (Both Invisible And Blinding)” – truth wrapped in jest
  • Video Premiere: Tawny Ellis “Edge of the World”
  • Ruen Brothers to release fourth album “Awooo” in October 2025
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Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

July 15, 2025 0

Writing songs with Tom Paxton was like going fishing with a friend. Paper flowers generally symbolise enduring love, remembrance, and creativity. Unlike fresh flowers, they don’t fade or die, memorialising a love that lasts or a […]

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Behind the Songs: Chris Stamey “Anything Is Possible”

July 10, 2025 0

North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey is an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history, starting in the mid-70s with Mitch Easter in the band Sneakers, then co-founding the avant-pop band The dBs […]

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Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

July 2, 2025 0

It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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