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Sean McLaughlin and The Wind Up Crows “Goodnight, Lad”

May 20, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Impressive debut from Shetlander with serious songwriting chops. Opening with a traditional sounding folk instrumental, the brief but endearing ‘Unburnt Viola’, the casual listener could be wrong-footed and move on thinking this is genre bound to […]
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Gileah Taylor “Slow Parade”

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A slow-evolving delight of an album. It might be a simple thing to say that modern Americana music has more to do with that not-easy-to-define ‘feel’ rather than any specifically defined genre. That ‘feel’ is either […]
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John Moreland “Visitor”

May 17, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
John Moreland goes off grid and comes up with an album which is soul searching as he struggles to make sense of an always on line society After the bells and whistles (synths to be more […]
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Blitzen Trapper “100s of 100s, Millions of Billions”

May 17, 2024 FredArnold 0
On their eleventh album, the Oregon band continue their exploration of Buddhist teachings and how they inform our very existence. The man behind Blitzen Trapper is Eric Earley, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and meditator. Blitzen Trapper (BT) […]
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Live Review: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma – 5th May 2024

May 17, 2024 Paul Dominy 0
This year marks the centenary of Cain’s Ballroom, the historic Tulsa, Oklahoma venue.  Such is the kudos associated with playing in this glorious space, it attracts artists who, even though they could at least half-fill the […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 James McMurtry Songs

May 21, 2026 2
It was the legendary American author Stephen King who said, “James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation”. At the same time, much closer to home, BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris called him “the […]
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Bedouine “Neon Summer Skin”

May 21, 2026 0
A beautiful reflection on family, and the search for home and belonging, with a new depth to the music. Bedouine is the project of Azniv Korkejian. Her family has migrated between Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia […]
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Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

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Esteemed Portland, Oregon-based artist Laura Veirs has announced that her new album, Temple Songs, will come out on 14th August via her label Raven Marching Band Records. Veirs has also shared her lead single Flying Into […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Watch the video to the first song to be released from it below. ‘Queens of The Summer Hotel’, the new album from Aimee Mann, is set for release on November 5 via her own SuperEgo Records. […]
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Mad Crush “Listen, The Snow Is Falling” – Listen

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We could have pulled a fast one on you here valued reader – we premiered Mad Crush’s single ‘Northern Lights‘ at the end of October, and that’s got a bit of a wintry connection.  We could […]
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Tyler Childers “Country Squire” (Hickman Holler Records, 2019)

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Tyler Childers self-released his first album ‘Bottles and Bibles’ in 2011 aged 19. A bit rough around the edges maybe, but that release offered a glimpse of the potential that the young Kentuckian had. It also […]

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