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Malcolm Holcombe “Bits and Pieces”  

June 8, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0
One more collection of peerless Holcombe vignettes for the road. Musicians often talk of their existential need to create. Making music, they say, is something essential to their being, it is not a choice they make […]
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Chris Frye and the Analog Ghosts “And There We Were in the Flamin’ 20s”

June 8, 2023 FredArnold 0
A third excellent, fascinating and contemporary side project by The Bills’ Chris Frye. The Bills are a high-class eclectic Canadian roots music band that incorporates folk, country, some blues and pop in its repertoire. Formed about […]
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Robert Ellis “Yesterday’s News”

June 7, 2023 Andrew Raw 0
Authentic tales of life’s anxieties set to acoustic guitar picking. ‘Yesterday’s News’ is an intriguing album written by Robert Ellis using the freedom he had after leaving his record label and management company after over 10 […]
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Josienne Clarke “Onliness”

June 7, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Josienne Clarke reclaims her back catalogue. It has become something of the thing to do when someone has notched up a decade or more in the folk world: put out a retrospective but to distinguish it […]
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Anna St. Louis “In The Air”

June 6, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0
Quality vocal and musical arrangements provide a great frame for this fine set of songs. ‘In The Air’ is Anna St Louis’ second full-length album following 2018’s ‘If Only There Was A River’.  The intervening years […]

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More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

June 30, 2026 0
On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]
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Ian Prowse “No Names”

June 30, 2026 0
Impassioned energy and emotionally charged politics from Merseyside luminary. Ian Prowse has been making music for more than thirty years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums […]
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New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

June 30, 2026 0
Occasionally, we provide a compendium of recently announced live shows, so here are three sets of tour dates that came our way in the last few days. Gaslight Anthem main man, Brian Fallon, who recently led […]

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Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1
As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]
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Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0
Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
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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Ramblin’ Roots celebrate their tenth year in style with a stellar line up

January 23, 2026 0
In association with Clubhouse Records and Inside Out Talent, “The Ramblin’ Roots Revue” has become for many one of the UK’s most eagerly anticipated and best-loved weekends of cosmic americana, alt-country, folk and roots in the […]
Live Reviews

Anna Tivel & Jefferey Martin, The Green Note, London, 4th July 2018

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Either one of these artists would be worth turning out for, even worth dragging into a heat soaked and sticky London evening, and wandering down the dust-blown streets of Camden Town. Yeah, even worth fighting with […]
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Something for the weekend: American Aquarium “Down at the Twist and Shout”

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That’s it for us for another week, and we leave you dear reader with a track from the new album by American Aquarium out today – ‘Slappers, Bangers & Certified Twangers, Vol. 1’ contains 10 covers […]

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