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Interview: Just 16 notes, that’s all it took to hook Tony Trischka on the banjo

October 7, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
The banjo chose me. Like the iconic poster of Uncle Sam pointing a finger over the bold statement “I want you,” aimed to encourage military service during WWII, Tony Trischka declares the banjo chose him and […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings is no paper tiger – His powerful songs rock from the heartland

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The trick is to say something interesting or compelling without making it too careful or precious. On the press release it reads: “Beau Jennings & The Tigers’ third album (“American Stories Major Chords”) is in its […]
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Interview: Karen Jonas on Elvis and the perils of pink flamingos

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Ahead of her UK tour Karen Jonas talks about her latest album. A decade ago Karen Jonas released her debut album, “Oklahoma Lottery”. Since then the Fredericksburg, Virginia-based Jonas has been quite prolific, releasing six albums, […]
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Video Interview: Jamie Sutherland on “The World As It Used To Be”

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Writing more songs than Broken Records can record and the pull of singer-songwriters. It may surprise many listeners that Broken Records’ Jamie Sutherland is seventeen years into his career, mind you, this doesn’t mean he is […]
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Video Interview: Amy Rigby on “Hang In There With Me”

September 19, 2024 Martin Johnson 0
Why you can still be relevant as an artist in your 60s and living in Norfolk. Amy Rigby started her career in New York when Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones were the leading bands, forming […]

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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]
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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Live Review: Mercury Rev + Nina Savary, The Junction, Cambridge, 8th November 2024

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Mercury Rev are out touring their excellent new album “Born Horses” which raises all sorts of questions – the new album has a refreshed musical palette to support the new songs delivered by Jonathan Donahue in […]
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A classic film of the 1970s’ – with its lonesome cheating heart in Texas. Film director Peter Bogdanovich died on the 6th of January this year – the news of which brought to mind what I would […]

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