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Taylor Swift announces The Eras Tour UK dates for 2024

June 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 2
We have featured Taylor Swift around these parts from time to time in recent years due to her original country leanings which morphed for some recent albums into the kind of indie-folk we often kill for […]
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Alabama 3 announce new album “Cold War Classics Vol.2”, UK dates

June 19, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Alabama 3, the legendary band from Brixton, South London are back with a brand-new track from their forthcoming 14th studio album ‘Cold War Classics Vol.2′ which is the follow-up to their 2021 album ‘Step 13’. ‘Thank […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 100

June 16, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 8
Embrace the change – a weekend listen. So here it is, as retirement from full-time teaching approaches as change to the format for this column. As a good friend pointed out ‘ Hang on, now instead […]
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Lucinda Williams announces UK and Euro dates for 2024

June 15, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Ahead of the release of her new album ‘Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart’ which comes out June 30th via Highway 20 Records/Thirty Tigers, Americana legend Lucinda Williams has announced a run of UK and […]
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Interview: Esther Rose on moving forward with “Safe To Run”

June 13, 2023 Martin Johnson 0
Is this the beginning of doom country? Americana UK last chatted with then New Orleans resident Esther Rose just over two years ago around the release of what was probably her best album to date, ‘How […]

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Life, love and relationships are all wrapped up in one wonderful collection. Kye Alfred Hillig is based in Tacoma, Washington. A singer-songwriter, he has produced an exceptional, heartfelt album. His first recording since the release of […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 1
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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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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