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The Mining Co. “Mountain Fires” (Independent, 2017)

November 7, 2017 Rick Bayles 0
The Mining Company is singer/songwriter Michael Gallagher, indulging in the modern fashion of operating under a band name rather than his own. “Mountain Fires” is his second album, following on from 2016’s “Burning Sun and The […]
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The New Faith “Me On You” (Faith Healer Records, 2017)

November 6, 2017 David Cowling 0
Big sounding records sometimes bully me into submission and the sheer force of the music carries me along. Pete Wylie was like that, a wave of infectious exuberance, with tunes. Then there are more modern exponents […]
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House Above The Sun “Five Hours North” (HATS Music, 2017)

November 6, 2017 David Cowling 0
HATS are a celebratory kind of a band; their music rings with the joy of making music, not the artistic struggle. The songs don’t sound like they were wrung from a tormented soul, more like they […]
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Eugene Tyler Band “Young Randy” (Cold Folks Home Records, 2017)

November 6, 2017 Rick Bayles 0
“Young Randy” is the new album from the Eugene Tyler Band – but who, exactly, are the Eugene Tyler Band?! The review copy of the album came with no accompanying information and no info on the […]
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Chris Hillman “Bidin’ My Time” (Rounder Records, 2017)

November 3, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Chris Hillman, the bluegrass mandolinist turned electric bass player, was a significant player in several seminal bands of the sixties and seventies. None more important than The Byrds, but Manassas ran them a close second. His […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg

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Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?

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Live Review: Seasick Steve, Folk by the Oak – 19th July 2026

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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

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Matraca Berg
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg

July 29, 2026 0
Yes I know I am picking two albums from a catalogue of only 8, two of which are compilations and one that was never released. For some reason the label didn’t like it, though two of […]
Tracks

Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?

July 29, 2026 0
This new song is a relatively old song; it comes from Gary Marks’ unreleased album A Whisper Can Change The World, recorded in 2007. So, why unreleased? Gary Marks had started out on his singer-songwriter path […]
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Amy Speace to release debut poetry collection and new single

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Award-winning singer-songwriter and poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals on Tuesday 1st September 2026.  It will be published by Red Hen Press.  Speace will also be releasing an accompanying […]

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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Video: Whiskeytown “Houses On The Hill”

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For this week’s retro slot we head back twenty years for the wonderful performance from Whiskeytown in 1998.  Have a good weekend everyone.
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Nathan Evans Fox “Heirloom”

June 3, 2026 0
A record built to last. “Nathan Evans Fox sounds like the truth. In the end, that’s what we go to songwriters for, isn’t it?”  These words opened Alan O’Hare’s review for Americana UK, writing about 2018’s […]
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Classic Clips: John Prine “You Got Gold” – Ray Martin At Midday, 1993

October 13, 2023 0
This clip of John Prine is taken from an Australian weekday daytime variety show, ‘Ray Martin At Midday,’ on Nine Network Australia, broadcast live on February 18, 1993. Prine was on a tour there at the […]

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