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Live Review: Jolie Holland + Mark McKowski, Portland Arms, Cambridge – 1st April 2024

April 10, 2024 Adrian Dzialdowski 1
The Portland Arms in Cambridge (capacity 200) had a hard time getting punters out for this exceptional gig on the fag end of Easter weekend. Consequently the usual competition to get to the front was non-existent […]
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Live Review: Brown Horse + Pigeon Wigs + Ead Wood: Le Pub, Newport – 29th March 2024

April 9, 2024 Tim Martin 0
Brown Horse have attracted the sort of reviews most bands dream of for their debut album and consequently they drew a respectable Good Friday crowd to Newport.  Managing to cram all six of the band onto […]
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Live Review: South By Southwest Festival 2024, Austin, Texas

April 8, 2024 Paul Dominy 0
In my twenty years attending South by Southwest, Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express have been there for half of them.  Even when they are not going to be in town during the week of the […]
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Live Review: Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman + Andy Lenton, Nettleham Village Hall, Nettleham, Lincoln – 22nd March 2024

April 3, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
The folk club at Nettleham Village Hall can always be relied on to deliver the highest quality acts to entertain the local congregation and this particular evening was no exception with what can only be described […]
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Syncing Americana – A panel discussion at the AMAUK conference

April 3, 2024 Peter Feldon 1
OK, we promise this is the last of our ramblings garnered from the AMAUK’s January shindig. While it is the showcase gigs and the awards show which get all the attention, industry movers and shakers get […]

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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

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For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]
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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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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 is not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with […]

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