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Strand of Oaks “In Heaven”

September 29, 2021 Peter Churchill 1
An ode to joy – album number eight is a belter. In Heaven is the eighth studio album from Tim Showalter aka Strand of Oaks. The album is a reflection on love, loss and enlightenment, influenced, […]
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Kris Gruen “Welcome Farewell”

September 28, 2021 Jason McDonald 0
Kris Gruen’s fifth album “Welcome Farewell” displays a growing confidence and maturity. Kris Gruen has drawn upon his experience as a poet and songwriter to create an album which explores his home, family making his personal […]
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Ian Jones “Evergreens”

September 28, 2021 Tim Martin 0
Inventive playing on good songs highlights a refreshing songwriting talent. Ian Jones falls squarely into the singer-songwriter category, and these six songs could so easily have turned out as bland as far too much of the […]
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Sean Rowe “The Darkness Dressed In Colored Lights”

September 27, 2021 Richard Phillips 0
Inspired lyrics reside amongst an atmospheric soundscape. Sometimes it can be fruitful to digress, in this instance from an album review to foraging for food. Rowe has his own Youtube feature, ‘Can I eat this?’ on […]
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The Sundogs “Embroidered Rose”

September 27, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0
Lee and Will Haraway and their Sundogs come up with one of the better Americana band outings of the year so far. As both Don & Phil of the masterful The Everly Brothers are now no […]

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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year anniversary event featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and you know, others of our ilk, you can head […]
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Americana Stories – Coming soon, but there’s still time to submit your story

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We will be starting to publish our Americana Stories in June, but the submission deadline is not until the end of August. We have some great work to share with you through the summer, so if […]
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Mia Kelly “Big Time Rollercoaster Feeling”

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In “Big Time Roller Coaster Feeling” Mia Kelly leaps from her roots in folk and blues to a foray into pop territory. At only 23 years of age, Québec-based singer-songwriter Mia Kelly has released her third […]

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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

May 18, 2026 1
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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Track Premiere: Caitlin Anne Webster “Wait (On Love)”

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Caitlin Anne Webster’s new song digs deep on two levels – there’s the touchstones of her music which serve to give the song a classic traditional folk feel and then there’s the emotional depths with ‘Wait […]

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