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Video Interview: Jim Keller talks about “Daylight”

July 23, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

From power pop to cult roots music songwriter via managing Philip Glass. You would struggle to script Jim Keller’s career if you were working on a piece of fiction and make it believable. He first tasted […]

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Interview: The Kennedys are pilgrims on a journey in song

July 19, 2024 Dean Nardi 1

Their albums are souvenirs reminding Pete and Maura of old memories. Not counting side projects, solo records and a retrospective, The Kennedys, Pete and Maura, have released 16 albums in an enduring career spanning nearly thirty […]

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Video Interview: Elaine Palmer on “Half Moon Rising”

July 16, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Music that reflects the North Yorkshire Moors and America’s South West deserts. Emily Palmer has always been musical, so much so that as a child she thought everyone wrote songs. As she matured as an artist […]

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Interview: Jaimee Harris leaves space for mercy and grace in her compelling songs

July 11, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

You can try to leave a small town for a grander life and adventure but beware of the Boomerang Effect. This interview was recorded while sitting on a couch in the green room one afternoon at […]

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Video Interview: Oliver Wood on “Fat Cat Silhouette”

July 9, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

You don’t have to know what you want to do only what you don’t want to do. The Wood Brothers have built their audience and reputation the traditional way by road work and regularly releasing albums […]

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Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun feat. Sheryl Crow “I’d Miss the Birds”

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Jingle Bells Friday – I want to see the bright Xmas lights tonight

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Sam Shackleton “Scottish Cowboy Ballads and Early American Folk Songs”

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Classic Clips: Warren Zevon “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” – The Late Show With David Letterman – 30th October 2002

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  • Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun feat. Sheryl Crow “I’d Miss the Birds”
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  • Classic Clips: Warren Zevon “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” – The Late Show With David Letterman – 30th October 2002
  • Live Review: Natalie Wildgoose + Elanor Moss, St. Pancras Old Church, London – 17th November 2025
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Interview: Dan Bern has still got his fastball, and a change-up

December 2, 2025 1

In the smart and lively songs of Dan Bern, nuances are at work like honeybees in a hive. A busy swarm of subtleties generates a nucleus of narrative honeycomb that has more layers than an archaeologist’s […]

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Behind the Songs: Dillon Warnek “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep”

December 2, 2025 0

Dillon Warnek’s “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep” is a sharp and dizzying collection of songs about everything and anything. “Rolling Stone” raved that his debut album “Now That It’s All Over”, was full of “wry character […]

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Caught Light: Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers on time, trust and the art of letting go

November 24, 2025 1

As we meet, Tony Dekker is sitting outside a café in Vancouver, Canada. It’s a fitting setting for a conversation with the Great Lake Swimmers’ frontman – calm, thoughtful and quietly attuned to the world around […]

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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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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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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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