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Live Review: The Milk Carton Kids + Jenny Owen Youngs, The Barbican, London – 19th January 2024

February 1, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Five years to the day, Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale returned to The Barbican’s main hall, with their latest album ‘Only See the Moon’ which has garnered the kind of reviews that The Milk Carton Kids […]
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Live Review: Ashley McBryde, Albert Hall, Manchester, 23rd January 2024

January 31, 2024 Guy Lincoln 1
Ashley McBryde is currently touring the UK for the fifth (or is it the sixth?) time, playing a run of nine, mostly sold out, mid-size theatre dates. Not bad for someone who cut their teeth playing […]
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Live Review: Jason Isbell, Union Chapel, London – 28th January 2024

January 30, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 13
In town for a bit of promotion and to attend the AMAUK awards,  Jason Isbell arrived at The Union Chapel surfing a very high wave of admiration and affection from his British audience. The queue was […]
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Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Album Launch Party, St Mary’s Guildhall, Lincoln – 15th December 2023

January 8, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Just a mere six years after the release of their debut album ‘Brave Unbeaten Paths’  The Rye Sisters finally deliver the perfect Christmas present for their ever increasing fan base with the news of the imminent […]
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Live Review: Dean Owens & The Sinners, Glad Café, Glasgow – 18th December 2023

January 4, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
It’s somewhat fitting that the last gig this reviewer saw in 2023 was by Dean Owens who, a few days later, was pronounced the winner of Best UK Americana act in our latest annual Readers Poll. […]

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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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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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Ronnie Lane called them Slim Chance but they are still here nearly fifty years later. Ronnie Lane is one of the great British songwriters whose work stands comparison with that of Ray Davies and Pete Townshend, […]

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