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Rachel Kane “Holler at the Wind”

April 2, 2025 Jonny Brick 0
Assured acoustic folk full of wisdom and melody. After two decades away from music Rachel Kane, who is from Neil Young’s birth city of Winnipeg, Canada, returns to a much altered world: for one thing, she’s […]
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The Devil Makes Three “Spirits”

April 1, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Two’s company, but three’s a crowd, especially when the third is the devil. “Spirits” is the first new album in seven years by the genre-bending Americana band the Devil Makes Three, their long-awaited follow-up to the […]
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Moss Henry “Gone Away”

April 1, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Newcomer Moss Henry delivers fresh authenticity. You don’t normally get country music coming out of the Caribbean. But in a dispatch from the US Virgin Islands comes the debut album of Moss Henry, a rugged new […]
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Folk Roundup – Daria Kulesh, Lush “In the Bath” Compilation, Kristin Daelyn, Pedair, Ainsley Hamill

March 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, well, well – it seems that there is a larger amount of Welsh folk being produced than we’d previously suspected, and we have a couple more samples on this month’s Folk Roundup.  Alongside that there’s […]
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Grey DeLisle “The Grey Album”

March 31, 2025 Andy Short 0
Grey DeLisle is back with a collection of traditional country story songs. Grey DeLisle is a prolific songwriter. However, it was the isolation of the 2020 lockdown that allowed her to regain the spark and produce […]

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EELS set to release their 16th album “Cookie Happened” in October… on the 16th

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The fabulous EELS  have announced their 16th studio album Cookie Happened is due for release on 16th October via E Works / Play It Again Sam. Alongside the announcement, the band has released a brand-new single, Cap […]
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Pillarstone “Mono Lit”

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Debut Group album from two seasoned songwriters, with strands of americana, Celtic folk and indie. Mono Lit is the first album from a new group collaboration of Paul J Bolger and Alex Soikans. Soikans has contributed […]

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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

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In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]
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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

June 10, 2026 0
With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]

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Easy to dismiss at first listen as the kind of low-grade dirty country rock mastered and simultaneously lampooned by Jeff Bridges in his 2009 Oscar-winning performance as ‘Bad’ Blake in Crazy Heart, ‘Hellfire’ should not be […]
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Jamie Sutherland “The World As It Used To Be”

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Experienced songwriter finds some time to himself. The Broken Records frontman’s second solo album was recorded at the Slate Room Studios in Edinburgh. AUK promoted the lead single ‘Start Again’ back in June. Some old acquaintances […]
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Track Premiere: The Barlow “Josephine”

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Today’s Premiere features The Barlow who hail out of Denver but draw their inspiration from Texas country, Southern rock and outlaw country.  And whilst that’s fine as a start they are determined to find their own […]

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