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Suzie Ungerleider “Among the Evergreens”

July 4, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0
Past and present in the soundtrack of a lifetime. Memories often seem to gravitate around specific songs, which stick in your mind as some of the defining pieces of a particular time or place. They hide […]
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Bluegrass Briefs: Bela Fleck, Mason Via, Sister Sadie, J.D. Crowe

July 4, 2025 Tim Martin 0
Bluegrass is a genre that has expanded to fit the ambitions of its practitioners in recent years. We’ve looked at Bela Fleck’s experiments with it in previous columns, but has stretched genre to breaking point with […]
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Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman “Hearsay & Heresy”

July 4, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
Fancy some comfort food? This record from a radio DJ and a guitar tutor delivers it by the forkful. Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman are two members of the seven-piece americana band FineLines; Boardman being one […]
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Amanda DeBoer Bartlett “Braided Together”

July 4, 2025 Tim Martin 0
Fine songs about children and motherhood, set to only intermittently great music. A common way for P.R.s to direct the attention of reviewers to an album is “RIYL,” which stands for “Recommended If You Like”. In […]
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Willi Carlisle “Winged Victory”

July 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Willi Carlisle comes up with an album which is both defiant and hopeful. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” So wrote Hunter S. Thompson back in the 70s amidst the turmoil of the […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

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Fayen “Something To Look Back On”

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Interviews

Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

April 21, 2026 0
Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

April 21, 2026 0
Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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Live Reviews

Live Review: Morgan Wade + Karley Scott Collins, Sammy Harrison, O2 Forum Kentish Town, London – 25th March 2025

April 7, 2025 0
Morgan Wade has just wrapped up her Europe leg of the ‘Obsessed’ Tour and made a stop in north London. Supported by Brighton-based songwriter Sammy Harrison and Nashville’s Karley Scott Collins, the London gig made for […]
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Mexico City “Closer to Home”

December 14, 2022 0
Mexico City’s new album drags the listener in and keeps them there with its live-to-tape 70’s feel. Mexico City are from Brisbane Australia so it’s not likely you would come across them at a local UK […]
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Michele Stodart “Invitation”

October 13, 2023 1
Beautiful piano-based ballads with poignant and evocative lyrics. Many will be familiar with Michele Stodart from her time in The Magic Numbers, the indie band formed with her brother Romeo, and sister and brother Angela and […]

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