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Eric Bibb “Live at the Scala Theatre Stockholm”

April 3, 2024 Andy Short 0
The whole world has got the blues. Critically acclaimed Grammy nominee Eric Bibb is back with a new live album recorded in Stockholm, an entertaining collection of songs from his extensive career. Along with his compositions, […]
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Sarah Shook and the Disarmers “Revelations”

March 28, 2024 Andy Davidson 0
River Shook finely balances What it Takes. ‘Talkin’ to Myself’ was the final track on the Sarah Shook and the Disarmers’ 2022 album ‘Nightroamer’. It was used over the opening credits for the Apple TV series […]
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Alejandro Escovedo “Echo Dancing”

March 27, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
Americana legend reimagines 14 classic songs. Alejandro Escovedo’s latest album sees him once again teamed up with Don Antonio and his band.  ‘Echo Dancing’, like its predecessor, ‘The Crossing’ (2018), was recorded at Costabeat in Villa […]
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Cedric Burnside “Hill Country Love”

March 27, 2024 Chas Lacey 0
Mid-life reflection and authentic blues from the Mississippi Hill Country. Ask someone to name a Grammy-award winning drummer turned guitarist who is also the lead singer of his band and has appeared in several films and […]
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A.H. Pettus “How The West Was Once”

March 26, 2024 Michael Macy 0
A basement recording tracks an artist’s emotional journey. ‘How the West Once Was’ is a recent release by A.H. Pettus. His previous offering, The ‘Black and White Album‘, was written under his pseudonym, which was also […]

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Kaitlin Butts’ breakthrough to a UK audience was at The Long Road Festival in 2024, where an Interstate stage band show, a fabulous acoustic set and a guest appearance with Lola Kirke placed her on the […]
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Benny Bleu “When I am a Fossil”

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A banjo-helmed ecological concept album. Those of a nervous disposition may wish to steel themselves in advance of this review, in that it contains several references to the “B” word; that’s “banjo” to you and me. […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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The Builders And The Butchers “Montana” – Death rides across an icy plain

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‘Montana‘ is the third single from The Builders And The Butchers’ new album ‘Hell and High Water‘ and it sees the band at full pelt on a tale of death and destruction on a careening night-time […]
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Video Premiere: Ruby Friedman Orchestra “Flower Whore”

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‘Flower Whore’ is the intense new single from Portland-based Ruby Friedman Orchestra, and it’s a song with plenty of sonic surprises that blends observation and autobiography about “…opium, flowers, money, and sex work.” It begins with a […]
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Margo Cilker “Lowland Trail” – Cut ’em out, ride ’em in

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‘Valley Of Heart’s Delight’ is the new album from which the single ‘Lowland Trail‘ is taken. It’s a richly warm and fundamentally optimistic folk song which uses a cattle drive as a metaphor for finding a […]

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