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Alejandro Escovedo “Echo Dancing”

March 27, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
Americana legend reimagines 14 classic songs. Alejandro Escovedo’s latest album sees him once again teamed up with Don Antonio and his band.  ‘Echo Dancing’, like its predecessor, ‘The Crossing’ (2018), was recorded at Costabeat in Villa […]
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Cedric Burnside “Hill Country Love”

March 27, 2024 Chas Lacey 0
Mid-life reflection and authentic blues from the Mississippi Hill Country. Ask someone to name a Grammy-award winning drummer turned guitarist who is also the lead singer of his band and has appeared in several films and […]
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A.H. Pettus “How The West Was Once”

March 26, 2024 Michael Macy 0
A basement recording tracks an artist’s emotional journey. ‘How the West Once Was’ is a recent release by A.H. Pettus. His previous offering, The ‘Black and White Album‘, was written under his pseudonym, which was also […]
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AUK’s EP Round-Up – March 2024

March 26, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Well here we are, nearing the end of March already, and still it rains. In fact I fear if it keeps on raining… well you know how the song goes. Anyway, my turn to pick up […]
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Ma Polaine’s Great Decline “Molecules”

March 26, 2024 Paul Russell 0
West Country duo shine on captivating folk-blues album. Finding out the background to any artist is always illuminating and reading the publicity around this release, it was a joy to read that one of the main […]

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Lowland lo-fi compositions of “love, loss and lap steel”. Phil Smith was part of Glasgow’s thriving indie-rock scene before embarking on his solo venture as Still Life Painter. In 2018, he took on bass duties for […]
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Well, this is that rare thing, a doubly old new song: Valley People originally started life as an instrumental piece that Rob Burger wrote during a break from a demanding touring stretch. The piece began as […]

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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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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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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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Grace Potter’s ‘Mother Road’ is a candid work part-celebration, part-therapy which will resonate widely. The Mother Road of the album’s title is the legendary Route 66 that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles as Grace Potter […]
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