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Roger Waters “Is This The Life We Really Want?”

June 8, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 1
If you are a Water’s fan – be it ‘Amused to Death’ or ‘Pros and Cons’ or a Floyd fan particularly of ‘Animals’ or ‘The Wall’ then you are going to really enjoy the musical tropes […]
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Harrow Fair “Call to Arms” (Roaring Girl Records, 2017)

June 8, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Harrow Fair are Miranda Mulholland, of Great Lake Swimmers, and Andrew Penner, of Sunparlour Players, and Call to Arms is their debut release as a duo – and genuinely a duo, Mulholland sings and adds violin […]
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The Gage Brothers “The Gage Brothers” (Independent 2017)

June 8, 2017 Dave Clarke 0
Here is a new Bluegrass band of great note. The Gage Brothers are brothers, Ben (harmonica, Cajon beat box) and Zach (lead vocal and guitar), now with Brendan O’Malley (mandolin) and Chris Volpe (banjo and pedal […]
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Leeroy Stagger “Love Versus” (Independent 2017)

June 7, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0
Stagger’s eleventh studio album sees him really hitting some impressive heights as a songwriter. This is an old school album in the sense that it is a singer/songwriter opening his heart and reflecting his concerns and […]
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Worry Dolls “Go Get Gone” (Bread & Butter Music, 2017)

June 7, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Rosie Jones and Zoe Nicol, who together make up Worry Dolls, are that rare thing – songwriters who are genuinely living their lyrics. Go Get Gone‘s title quoting track is the carpe diem song Train’s Leaving […]

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Around 4pm on 22nd May 2018 I was standing in line outside the London Stadium, waiting for the gates to open for a Rolling Stones show. The wait was made more tolerable by virtue of being […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]

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Something for the weekend: The Sadies “Stop and Start”

November 12, 2021 0
Well that’s it for us for another week dear reader. We leave you with a new song from Toronto’s americana stalwarts The Sadies which we know absolutely nothing about other than the lyric video below was […]
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Mink’s Miracle Medicine “Thumbs Up Angel” (WarHen Records, 2020)

November 26, 2020 0
West Virginia-based duo Mink’s Miracle Medicine (Melissa Wright and Daniel Zezeski, who share vocal duties) describe themselves as ‘Americana’, but the urgent album opener, and recent single, ‘At The Fair,’ recalls the rushing, jangly guitar pop […]
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Gold Light “Zephyr” (Bailey Park, 2019)

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Joe Chang, aka Gold Light, has been releasing music since 2013 from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. ‘Zephyr‘, his fourth album, was all written, performed and mixed by Chang himself and recorded over just […]

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