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Live Review: Mavis Staples + Jon Muq, Union Chapel, London – July 3rd, 2023

July 7, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0
The Union Chapel is a perfect venue for a Mavis Staples show. There was a fervour about her performance to which her audience (congregation?) responded accordingly. The palpable feeling that welcomed this great artist was love. […]
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Live Review: Musics From Summerisle, The Barbican, London – 24th June 2023

July 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
“Welcome Fool!” Lord Summerisle declared as Edward Woodward stared in shock at his fate – the hunter become the hunted, the reward of purity being eligibility for sacrifice.  It’s a moment of inversion in British Horror, […]
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Live Review: Hoth Brothers Band, Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Café, Glasgow – 22nd June 2023

June 30, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
Just days before the Hoth Brothers Band arrived in the UK for their first ever tour over here, it was announced that Boris McCutcheon, one half of the original duo, would be unable to join them […]
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Live Review: Patty Griffin + John Smith, Union Chapel, London – 19th June 2023

June 28, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0
Patty Griffin wrapped up her 2023 European tour – all two dates – at Union Chapel.  Her first London show in three years and her first at Union Chapel in ten.  Despite having played the nearby […]
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Review – Black Deer Festival 2023: Britain’s premier Americana event continues to grow

June 27, 2023 Clint West 5
This year’s Black Deer was the fourth since it began in 2018 with an enforced break in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. It seems a good time then, to take stock and reflect on […]

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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]
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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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Video: Jason McNiff “Cairo (Stuck in the Past)”

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Our retro Friday offering this week is from the wonderfully gifted Jason McNiff.  ‘Cairo (Stuck in the Past)’ is all about McNiff’s smooth vocal delivery over gorgeous guitar-work.  It’s an extended song, almost six minutes, that […]
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AUK Chain Gang: The Daintees “Witches Ride”

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It’s fascinating to see how the AUK Chain Gang works – how we all pick up certain elements of the previous post, to conjure up musical memories for the next writer. Jonathan’s fascinating choice of Wolf […]
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The Song Remains: Randy Meisner (1944-2023)

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Country rock founding father who brought his soul to The Eagles. Country rock has lost another of its founders with the death of Randy Meisner on 26th July 2023, in Los Angeles from chronic obstructive pulmonary […]

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