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Ferran Orriols “Darrere Els Horts / Behind The Orchard”

May 9, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Orriols’ sophomore album builds on the promise of his debut, musically defying borders and lyrically transcending language. Following on from his critically acclaimed debut album “PLATA (SILVER)”, released in 2023, Catalan singer-songwriter Ferran Orriols has returned […]
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Mark Mulholland “Fighting With Your Shadow”

May 9, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0
Unflagging optimism pervades the tales of a wandering musician. There’s something instantly appealing about the life of an artist who travels the world as they slowly build their body of work. A profusion of examples can […]
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Folk Roundup – Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Wise Woman, Flook, Iona Lane, Passengers & Pioneers Project

May 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
The latest Folk Roundup is a pretty mixed bag on what we (loosely) call Folk music, with the welcome return of a long-serving – but relatively small outputting – band in the form of Flook, as […]
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Sam Robbins “So Much I Still Don’t See”

May 8, 2025 Andrew Raw 0
Sunny and melodic folk-pop with thoughtful and philosophical words. “So Much I Still Don’t See” is Sam Robbins’ third album after his debut, “Finally Feeling Young” (2021) and 2022’s “Bigger Than in Between”. It is melodic […]
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Tom Jenkins “When The Coal Dust Settled”

May 8, 2025 Gordon Mackay 0
Tom Jenkins returns with a powerful study of post-industrial Wales. Whilst working as a contract sheep shearer across the hill farms of Wales, Tom Jenkins wrote poems inspired by the stories of his fellow workers and […]

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Great Lakes “Fear of the Fear”

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Track Premiere: Hunter Moss “Let You Down”

October 15, 2026 0
Hunter Moss is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Jersey who found his musical way when he discovered the guitar, immersing himself in the instrument, frequently spending hours a day playing. In the best tradition, his […]
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Video: David Haerle “Carolyn” – the mental strain of letting go

October 15, 2026 0
Carolyn, a recent single from singer-songwriter David Haerle, follows the journey love takes, from its beginning to the long heartache that lingers after love is gone. The song is built upon Jon Lee Keenan’s pulsing bass, […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of those artists who sets the bar very high when it comes to recorded output. Not for her the experimental path of, say, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music or Neil Young’s […]

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Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”

October 13, 2026 0
Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of Wonders […]
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]

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Michael McArthur “Ever Green, Ever Rain” (Dark River Records, 2019)

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Michael McArthur is no stranger to the Americana and Folk world. He’s been releasing singles commercially since 2016, however, has never released anything other than that. Thankfully, McArthur has finally graced us with his full first […]
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Video: Brown Horse “Sorrow Reigns”

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The new single from Brown Horse begins with searing guitar and chunky riffs that are immediate and drive the song in typical Brown Horse style. At the heart of Sorrow Reigns are the twin powers of […]
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Frank Richard “Rough Enough”

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Long overdue addition to top-grade Americana, but well worth the wait. When a US singer-songwriter with enough mileage on his clock to have been arrested at an anti-Vietnam demonstration and received his first guitar lesson from […]

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