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Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire – Saturday 24th August 2024

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The second day of The Long Road 2024 arrived with clouds and rain. Not, apart from 15 minutes in the afternoon, torrential, but a general swing between light and heavy drizzle. The latter tended to be […]

Artwork for Joe Fahey album "Andrea's Exile"

Joe Fahey “Andrea’s Exile”

September 9, 2024 Peter Thompson 0

Inconsistent sixth solo offering from Minneapolis singer-songwriter. Joe Fahey’s musical journey started in North Minneapolis in 1979, playing guitar or bass in a number of bands, until in 1990 he founded Carp 18 as the primary […]

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire – Friday 23rd August 2024

September 9, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The Long Road festival is now a fixture in the calendar of fans of country and americana music with its welcoming family friendly atmosphere and its broad range of established and upcoming acts across six stages. […]

Paperback Riders: Peter Guralnick “Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll”

September 6, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

Sam Phillips was a single-minded visionary who some say invented rock ‘n’ roll. “If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a million dollars!” This […]

MJ Lenderman “Manning Fireworks”

September 6, 2024 Tom Harding 3

Raw, ragged, and irreverent. Five years ago, MJ Lenderman was scooping ice cream in his hometown of Asheville. Since then, his career has skyrocketed, and his songs, laced with a humour older than his years, balance […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

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Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]