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Mary Chapin Carpenter shares her “Personal History” in June

April 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer Mary Chapin Carpenter will release her anticipated new album “Personal History” on June 6th via Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers. In advance of the release, the song ‘Bitter Ender’ is out today […]
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Tami Neilson to release new album “Neon Cowgirl”

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Tami Neilson will be releasing her latest album “Neon Cowgirl” on 11th July 2025 via  Outside Music.  The Canadian-born New Zealand singer-songwriter will also be touring in the US with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan as […]
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Bill Callahan brings his reality to the UK and Europe this summer

April 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
“People, prepare to be spellbound!” proclaim Drag City, and they may well be right. The man who recently released the “YTI⅃AƎЯ” and “Gold Record” albums, and some impeccable live recordings on “Recusitate”, returns to the UK, […]
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James McMurtry returns with his Black Dog and Wandering Boy

April 23, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1
James McMurtry will release “The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy” on June 20 via New West Records. The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens) and is his first album […]
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Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars announce new album “Dreams”

April 22, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
The Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson is renowned for her purity of voice. Composer of the ever-fresh ’Morning Dew’, she was once at the heart of the Greenwich Village heyday when she sang at Gerdes Folk […]

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

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Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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