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Ed Dupas “The Lonesome Side of Town” (Road Trip Songs, 2019)

November 5, 2019 Elise Kennedy 0
Ed Dupas’s third album truly merits the definition of a self-reflective LP. Across its eleven tracks you can clearly hear a more personal edge on ‘The Lonesome Side of Town’ with a slightly rockier take than perhaps […]
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Edd Donovan and The Wandering Moles “Guardians Of Our Times” (Independent, 2019)

November 5, 2019 Tim Merricks 0
Edd Donovan’s third album finds him retracing his steps in some ways and moving with the times in other, more subtle areas. “The Singing Social Worker”, as he’s known on the folk scene due to his […]
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Wildwood Kin “Wildwood Kin” (Silvertone Records/Sony 2019)

November 5, 2019 Alan Fitter 0
‘Wildwood Kin’ is the eponymous second album from the Exeter based three-piece,   consisting of sisters Beth and Emilia Key and their cousin Meghann Loney. On the album, the band have co-written a number of songs […]
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Justin Rutledge “Passages” (Outside Music, 2019)

November 4, 2019 Mark Johnson 1
Americana can sometimes tend to melancholy, wistfulness, reflection on life’s journey and misfortunes, cliched at times. Rarely is it delivered by someone who is so obviously happy. Justin Rutledge is clearly content with his lot. Not […]
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Joshua Radin “Here, Right Now” (Nettwerk, 2019)

November 4, 2019 Helen Jones 0
It’s hard to begin listening to a Joshua Radin record without it conjuring visions of the kind of melodramatic scenes that might feature in a certain breed of US television drama. Radin first found success in […]

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Bedouine “Neon Summer Skin”

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A beautiful reflection on family, and the search for home and belonging, with a new depth to the music. Bedouine is the project of Azniv Korkejian. Her family has migrated between Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia […]
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Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

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Esteemed Portland, Oregon-based artist Laura Veirs has announced that her new album, Temple Songs, will come out on 14th August via her label Raven Marching Band Records. Veirs has also shared her lead single Flying Into […]
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Simon Joyner “Tough Love”

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In the lo-fi indie folk tradition, a deeply personal meditation on grief and loss by the Omaha, Nebraska-based singer-songwriter. There is something deeply intriguing about an artist who has, through the 30-plus years of his career, […]

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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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Video Premiere: Matt Owens & The Delusional Vanity Project “One For The Grapes”

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A fine songwriter and superb live performer, Matt Owens is the real deal and we’re delighted to premiere the new single ‘One for the Grapes’.  Bursting with energy and fuelled by searing, wailing electric guitar, this […]
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Another one bites the dust… Cambridge Folk Festival postponed for a year

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The Cambridge Folk Festival has announced the cancellation of this year’s festival with a headline statement stating that the festival would return in 2026. Simply stating “ the four-day folk and roots music festival hosted annually on […]
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Ramsey Thornton “I Called It!”

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Oklahoman Ramsey Thornton’s debut album explores the liminal space between action and inertia against a mellifluous musical background. Ramsey Thornton’s I Called It! is an album preoccupied with the moments where something should happen but doesn’t. […]

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