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Lavinia Blackwall “The Making”

July 9, 2025 Michael Macy 0
Lavinia Blackwall’s “The Making” is a welcome addition to the canon of Baroque pop. “The Making” is an extremely well-produced album, the result of collaboration between Blackwall and her partner, Marco Rea, with help from Thomas […]
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Ledfoot “Plain Simple Honesty”

July 9, 2025 Andy Short 0
Ledfoot returns with plain, simple honesty and some terrific guitar playing. Looking for some plain, simple honesty? This latest record from Norway-based singer-songwriter will certainly tick the right boxes. It is a collection for our times, […]
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The David Mayfield Parade “Go Big and Go Home”

July 8, 2025 Andrew Raw 0
Beautiful bluegrass with caring and “glass-half-full” words. This is The David Mayfield Parade’s first album in 12 years after “The David Mayfield Parade” in 2010 and 2013’s “Good Man Down”. The group is a curious, puzzling […]
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Constellation Myths “The Cost Of Living”

July 8, 2025 Rick Thorn 0
Harmonic post-rock americana with a definite and distinct sense of place. Constellation myths are stories from various cultures, particularly Greek mythology, that explain the origins and shapes of constellations in the night sky. These myths often […]
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Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”

July 7, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Fine set of live archive recordings from the King of Bakersfield. “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974” is a 3-CD set of live recordings by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos stretching from […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]
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Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

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Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]
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Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

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Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]

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Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

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Daniel Tashian is a legend in Nashville. He’s a deeply respected songwriter, he’s a solo artist with six albums to his name, he’s been in two superb bands, and he’s the go-to guy when you want […]
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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

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“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

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I’ve been lucky enough to see Willie Nile live on two occasions. Given that they were in Colwyn Bay and Macclesfield respectively, no geographic disrespect implied, it proved to be very much a case of seeking […]
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Something for the weekend: Townes Van Zandt “Rex’s Blues”

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That’s it from us for this week dear reader and we leave you with a song from Townes Van Zandt’s classic album ‘A Far Cry From Dead’ which is getting its first vinyl release next month. […]

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