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Blue Rose Code + Roseanne Reid, The Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 3rd November 2017

November 13, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
When you hear another member of the audience say, “This was like Van Morrison’s Caledonia Soul Orchestra,” on the way out, and you don’t think it’s hyperbole, then you’ve been to a rather special show. Similarities […]
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Brandy Clark + Jim Lauderdale, Sage, Gateshead, 30th October 2017

November 9, 2017 Maurice Hope 0
Like fellow country singer-songwriters Angaleena Presley and Kacy Musgrave, Brandy Clark has a wonderful, at times sassy, sense of humour. She starts off a little serious, a little dark, but still okay, but then around the […]
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CC Smugglers + All Our Exes Live In Texas, The Cookie, Leicester, 4 November 2017

November 7, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0
Although it was a Saturday and therefore de facto Bonfire Night a good-sized crowd piled into the basement of the Cookie and were rewarded with an outstanding evening.  Despite their name openers All Our Exes Live […]
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Slaid Cleaves, Hitchin Folk Club, Hitchin, 8th October 2017

November 6, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
A welcome return of the American troubadour to the Hitchin Folk Club for the last night of his UK tour – although he still had several weeks in Europe and the USA to go before he […]
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Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, Albert Hall, Manchester, 25th October 2017

October 30, 2017 Dave Jennings 1
The resplendent setting of a former Methodist hall in central Manchester was a suitable venue to welcome Jason Isbell back to these shores and an expectant congregation of devotees were not disappointed by an evening that […]

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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]
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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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