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Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart “Looking For The Thread”

February 17, 2025 Tim Martin 2
A collaboration which draws career best performances from each of the partners on songs which could only have been the work of all three. Combining the talents of three highly individual artists into one album can […]
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Seth Lakeman “The Granite Way”

February 17, 2025 Alasdair Fotheringham 0
Lakeman’s latest rousing, compelling reminder that sometimes folk-rock – it just rocks. At 13 solo albums and counting and with a career stretching back to the early 1990s, certain things can be taken for granted about […]
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Mary Bue “The Wildness of Living and Dying”

February 14, 2025 Paul Russell 0
Album nine for Minneapolis singer, yogi and retreat guide. You have to hand it to Mary Bue – her utterly focused mission to make highly personal music that links into her other ventures as a yogi […]
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Loudon Wainwright III “Loudon Live In London”

February 13, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
A great live capture of a Troubadour on top of his game. Over the course of a 50 year plus career, with around 30 albums under his belt, Loudon Wainwright III has surely earned the right […]
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The December Flowers “See It Through”

February 13, 2025 Michael Macy 0
First growth has maturity. ‘Seeing It Through’ may be the debut album from The December Flowers, but its members are seasoned musicians who have played in various combinations and bands over the years. This current formation, […]

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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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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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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

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For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]
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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

February 23, 2026 0
Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]

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Annie Keating + Christina Martin, York Basement, York, 25th June 2017

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The debut York performance of Canada’s Christina Martin, tonight with Producer/Husband Dale Murray on guitar, has been a long time coming, but it’s worth the wait.  Tonight she’s the support, later in the tour with her […]
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Video: Pernice Brothers “Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)”

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It’s retro Friday and today’s offering takes you back in time to the opening track from Pernice Brothers’ second album, 2001’s ‘The World Won’t End’.  The album begins with the words: “She summered every winter through […]
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The Ghibertins “In Your Arms” – ascolta!

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Americana influences certainly spread far, the most obvious touchstones for The Ghibertins are bands like Fleet Foxes.  Unlike Pecknold’s merry men though, The Ghibertins are a Milan based quintet and ‘In Your Arms’ is taken from […]

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