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Steve Knightley “Positively Folk Street”

April 28, 2025 Rick Thorn 1

Heartfelt, simple tribute to early influences. A lot of tribute/cover albums can often leave you a little underwhelmed and wondering if the artist is just going through the motions or has run out of ideas. ‘Positively […]

Cover of Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane's album 'Double Takes'

Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane “Double Takes”

April 28, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Ten songs packed with melody, musicianship and morals. Having known each other for two decades, and after recording a live album in 2018, Tentrees and Haldane combine in a Nashville studio under the auspices of producer […]

Ally Kerr “True Nature”

April 28, 2025 Helen Jones 0

A bright light of hopefulness shines from an album that finds promise even when things may look bleak. “Feels like a lifetime, I’ve been gone so long / But now I’m back again,” Scottish singer-songwriter Ally […]

Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts “Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads From Nova Scotia”

April 25, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Traditional transatlantic folk songs spring to life on this splendid collection of bloody tales. Drag city isn’t a label you’d immediately associate with traditional Scottish folk songs but when Alasdair Roberts pressed a demo of his […]

artwork for Steph Cameron's album "Blood Moon"

Steph Cameron “Blood Moon”

April 25, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

Communion between past and present is found through nature. The current musical landscape is so incredibly vast that it can be overwhelming at times. Internet, rather than providing a platform for talented unknown artists to reach […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter at The Bottom LIne, New York City 24th October 2006

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 […]

Great Lakes “Fear of the Fear”

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A deeply personal album, Ben Crum’s Memphis Record hits the spot. The band Great Lakes was formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1996 with members Ben Crum, Dan Donahue, and Jamey Huggins, and from there, the numbers […]

Bruce Cockburn “The Blood of Others”

October 14, 2026 0

An homage to the songs that shaped his long life, award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar maestro releases his 39th album. If you were asked to vote in a poll of the most activist artists in […]