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NPR previews new Josh Ritter album in full

April 18, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Well this is a treat for the Easter weekend – NPR are previewing today the new Josh Ritter album ‘Fever Breaks’ which is due out on Friday next week and which, of course, is produced by […]
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Wild Rose out today, Jessie Buckley to play Black Deer

April 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
We leave you today dear reader with a reminder that ‘Wild Rose’ which we recently glowingly reviewed goes on general release across the UK from today. The film sees Jessie Buckley star as Rose-Lynn Harlan, a […]
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Anna Tivel shares new album courtesy of NPR

April 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
You’ll recall that Anna Tivel had a new album planned for this year, it’s called ‘The Question‘, and we’ve already been lucky enough to share the track ‘Worthless‘ from it.  Well, hold onto your Homburgs, keep […]
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Neil Young to record new album with Crazy Horse

April 10, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
News from Rolling Stone this morning that Neil Young has announced that he’ll be recording a new studio album with Crazy Horse “in the near future” which will be their first new album since 2012’s ‘Psychedelic […]
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Tom Paxton’s UK tour begins this week

April 8, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Tom Paxton was always there, in Greenwich Village alongside Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk, John Hurt and Bobby Dylan, later on watching Dylan perform at the Isle of Wight Festival in ’69, alongside John Lennon and […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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This week we were (once again) amused that Facebook was in the news this time in a face-off with the Australian government. The argument was pitched by the vast majority of the mainstream media worldwide as […]
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