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Good Looks “Bummer Year”

April 6, 2022 Graeme Tait 0
Promising debut suggests future looks good for Austin based quartet. Back when the world seemed a simpler place, a debut album was seen as the first opportunity for a new artist or band to start finding […]
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Elkyn “Holy Spirit Social Club”

April 6, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
Wistful, sometimes dreamy, Sparkly folk from Leeds. Joey Donnelly is Elkyn and he is channelling many things with this sometime delicate, sometime urgent album the first of which on the opener ‘Change’ is Neil Halstead and […]
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Grady Spencer & the Work “Wait”

April 5, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
Texan group prove that the future and the past can coexist. By day, Texan Grady Spencer is a superintendent for a commercial construction company; at other times, he is a member of The Work. The band […]
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Jerry Leger “Nothing Pressing”

April 5, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
Toronto artist serves up his lockdown songs – a treat for the ears. And so it is that this soulful and in some cases urgent record seeps into the listeners consciousness. Alternating between stark solo affairs, […]
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Andrew Ryan “A Tiny Death”

April 4, 2022 Helen Jones 0
A gentle take on some big themes that’s pleasant to the ear if a little patchy thematically. While ‘A Tiny Death’ may sound like a slightly morbid title, for Missourian musician Andrew Ryan the word death […]

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The Corner Laughers “Concerns of Wasp and Willow”

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The Corner Laughers “Concerns of Wasp and Willow”

April 1, 2026 0
Baroque west-coast folk pop with a lyrical ear for the concerns of the present day. From the sunny reaches of Northern California hail The Corner Laughers. This is their first album in five years, it seems, […]
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Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour

April 1, 2026 0
Not only is Jim Lauderdale one of the most beloved, decorated songwriters ever to grace stages and studios around the world, but he’s also the most prolific. Since his major label debut in 1991, the recent […]
Interviews

Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]

  • The Corner Laughers “Concerns of Wasp and Willow”
  • Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour
  • Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”
  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)
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Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
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Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

March 30, 2026 0
When it comes right down to it, the heart of americana music has always been about connecting listeners to real experiences and emotions, and Natalie Del Carmen is currently one of the best examples of what […]
Interviews

Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]

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Ray Cardwell “Missouri Breeze” – blowin’ me home…

April 14, 2025 0
Jeremy Garrett of The Infamous Stringdusters mentioned that he’s  ” produced several solo projects as well as some really fun bluegrass records, but I’ve always wanted to work with a vocalist of Ray’s caliber.”  The Ray […]
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Video Premiere: Ash & Eric “Sure”

May 4, 2022 0
Ash & Eric release the final single before their debut album drops on Friday 6th May 2022.  In actual fact, it will be the married couple’s third album as they have two previous releases under the […]
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Various Artists “Restoration” (Universal Music Nashville, 2018)

July 3, 2018 0
Now this is a really interesting album. To give it its full title it is ‘Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin’ and it does exactly that. Sixteen different acts from a country […]

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