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Aussie troubadour Hazlett completes sophomore album and headlines UK for the first time

October 31, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Following the first part of “Goodbye to the Valley Low” released in late 2023, Australian musician Hazlett has released the complimentary ‘Side B’ EP and combined them together to make a full-length album out now via […]
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Hardwicke Circus announce new live album and tour dates

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Carlisle’s Hardwicke Circus have announced the release of their latest album “Cumbria Pizza” on 29th November 2024 on their own Alternative Facts Records in vinyl, CD and digital formats. The record is an unplugged album, recorded […]
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces the release of his ‘Nashville’ album The Purple Bird – Yeehaw!

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy aka Will Oldham has announced the release his new studio album “The Purple Bird” on January 31st 2025. Made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians, […]
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Todd Snider announces 30 year career spanning vinyl boxset

October 29, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
For US only but with free digital downloads worldwide. Todd Snider’s 30th anniversary celebration continues apace with the pre-sale of his first-ever career-spanning vinyl box set which is unfortunately not available in the UK but the […]
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Jerry Joseph launches livestream webcast ‘OIL’

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Portland’s Jerry Joseph, the prolific and accomplished songwriter,  powerful performer and notable campaigner is coming to the UK to promote his new venture “OIL”, his new livestream, ‘Where music, spirit and community meet’, which launched in the […]

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In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurray For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]
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first thoughts José González is a Swedish indie-folk singer – with, naturally, the usual background in hardcore punk influenced by Black Flag and choral singing – Against The Dying Of The Light is his fifth album, […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

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Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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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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Burnt Moth is the second album from Welsh-born folk singer/songwriter James McArthur. Having acquired years of experience as Paul Weller’s stickman, he moved frontstage to create his debut album “Strange Readings From The Weather Station” which […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Greg Trooper “Everywhere”

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The surprise bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese in December 1941, intensified the already existing tensions between people of Japanese descent and white Americans living in the USA. The concern of espionage and also the […]
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We’re back with another article in our Unsung Heroes of Americana series and, this time out, Gordon Sharpe pitches in with an informative piece about an influential record label that punched well above its weight: Takoma […]

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