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Dean Owens “Spirit Ridge”

February 18, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Dean Owens turns east while staying on the dusty Americana trail. Dean Owens is in no danger of suffering from underexposure around these parts. Fred Arnold’s recent review of predecessor EP set “The Ridge Trilogy” provides […]

Sidewalk Diamonds 'Dream of Dance Floors'

Sidewalk Diamonds “Dreams of Dance Floors”

February 17, 2025 Jonathan Smith 1

Raucous, heartfelt garage Americana. In 2020, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Tony Thomas invited Beth Pyper-Holz to sing on his solo ‘Dog and Tony Show’ release. With Thomas having returned the favour for Pyper-Holz’s EP ‘The Heartbreaker’ soon after, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]