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Sadler Vaden “Anybody Out There?” (Dirty Mag Records / Thirty Tigers, 2020)

April 14, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0
Sadler Vaden is best known as lead guitarist and vocalist in Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit. He said recently, “I live and breathe it. And I think I’m pretty good at it. I just love rock and […]
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Waxahatchee “Saint Cloud” (Merge Records, 2020)

April 14, 2020 Tim Martin 0
The fifth album from Katie Crutchfield’s Waxahatchee has been widely praised. The basis for this praise has often been her adoption of more elements of Americana and particularly her new found love for Lucinda Williams’ ‘Car […]
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Waco Brothers “Resist!” (Bloodshot Records, 2020)

April 14, 2020 Paul Kerr 0
Cash meets Clash! The Waco Brothers, a mash up of Jon Langford’s punk sensibilities and cowpunk twang, are probably the only band still around who merit the term “Insurgent Country,” a trademark on which Bloodshot Records […]
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Liv Greene “Every Bright Penny” (Independent, 2020)

April 14, 2020 Richard Phillips 0
Boston, Massachusetts is the current home of singer-songwriter, Liv Greene, where she is an active member of the city’s musical community. Greene has performed regularly at Club Passim, a non-profit folk venue and school of music […]
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Mark Erelli “Blindsided” (Soundly Music, 2020)

April 9, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0
This is the seventeenth studio album by Marl Erelli who has an impressive back-catalogue across a range of genres. He is most recognised as a Massachusetts based singer/songwriter of folk Americana, but he has recorded this […]

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

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Mia Kelly “Big Time Rollercoaster Feeling”

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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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Jim Basnight “Last Night” – Not such a good night…

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Here to end the week is the latest single from the ridiculously prolific Jim Basnight.  Taken from his latest release, his sixth, on Power Popaholic, entitled ‘Early Years‘ which, as you may already have guessed, covers […]
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Video Premiere: The Trouble Notes “Storm Searching”

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Check out the intensity of the latest single from international band The Trouble Notes.  Featuring the blistering violin of Bennet Cerven from the USA, the powerful percussion of Australian drummer Julian Lardis, and the guitar of […]
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Bobby Hawk “Lights On Kinks Out” (Independent, 2019)

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Bobby Hawk (born Robert Hecht for those who have a hankering to know the detail) has been immersed in music for as long as he can remember. Born in central Illinois, his multi-instrumentalist father brought him […]

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