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Hear Eric Burdon’s take on For What It’s Worth

May 17, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Eric Burdon has been talking to Uncut about his new take on the Buffalo Springfield classic For What It’s Worth to mark his 76th birthday, fifty years on from the song’s original release. Why this song […]
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Listen to the Mountain Goats’ new album, Goths

May 16, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
John Darnielle’s the Mountain Goats release their latest album Goths on May 19th. NPR are streaming it from today and you can listen to it here. For their 16th full-length album, Darnielle takes a conceptual detour. As […]
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Aaron Lee Tasjan tour including End Of The Road Festival appearance

May 15, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
Hot on the heels of the announcement that he’s a nominee for this year’s Americana Music Association’s Emerging Artist of the Year award modern day cosmic cowboy Aaron Lee Tasjan heads to the UK for a […]
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Justin Currie announces more tour dates

May 15, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
About to set out on the road to promote his new album This Is My Kingdom Now which was released last Friday,  Justin Currie has announced a second major tour commencing in October.
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Richard Thompson releasing two new acoustic collections and touring in October

May 15, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
Following the success of his Acoustic Classics album in 2014 when the celebrated singer songwriter and guitarist revisited his back catalogue Richard Thompson returns to the format with two new albums which will be released simultaneously […]

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Twilark “Tired To Sleep” – to sleep , perchance to forget

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Video: Gareth Dunlop “Freewheeling” (Live at Salvation Music Studios)

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Hadnot Creek “The End of the Road”

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The Truffle Boys live at the Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham - 21st July 2026

Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026

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Twilark “Tired To Sleep” – to sleep , perchance to forget

July 31, 2026 0
“I never wanted to need anyone or anything” sings Twilark (aka Canon Pence) on this woozy love song that drifts between states of needing, rejecting, feeling morose and maybe just a little confused.  There’s a hint […]
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Video: Gareth Dunlop “Freewheeling” (Live at Salvation Music Studios)

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The latest single from Belfast singer-songwriter Gareth Dunlop is a reflective song that explores the importance of memory and the elements of our younger selves still apparent in who we become. With lyrics that many will […]
Flying Burrito Brothers, Amsterdam 1970, L-R: Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Roberts, Chris Hillman, Michael Clarke, Bernie Leadon
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Essentials: The Top 10 country-soul songs

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As a teenager, I would have been very sniffy about both country and soul music. However, years have made me wiser, and I now fully appreciate them both. Country-soul is a great hybrid, with soul lending […]

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  • Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Lindsay Munroe “Split” – Listen

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‘Split‘, the new song from Lindsay Munroe comes from a deeper personal place than just a failed relationship.  Well, maybe that’s not wholly true.  With this edgy and  distorted music the Manchester based songwriter addresses a […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 30

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Steady as she goes… Things are improving at school despite a feeling that a stable door has been shut after the horse has not only exited the building but has taken up residence in an EU […]
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Book Review: David Berman “Actual Air” (Drag City, 2019)

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It seems poetry books are a bit like buses – you wait ages for one and then two come along at once! Following on from our recent review of Doug Hoekstra’s ‘Unopened’ we now have David […]

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