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Andrew Hawkey “Hindsight”

June 16, 2023 David Jarman 0
Cornish-born but long-time mid-Wales resident Hawkey shares fifty years of his life in music in an eclectic 17-track collection. Andrew Hawkey, Cornish born but living in rural mid Wales since 1973, has had a 50-year life […]
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Book Review: Lucinda Williams “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You”

June 16, 2023 Rick Bayles 0
Sharing her secrets. Given what an outstanding songwriter Lucinda Williams is, it should come as no great surprise to discover that she writes good prose as well, and this memoir has much of the sparse, dry […]
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Anton O’Donnell “Forty’s The New Thirty”

June 16, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0
Album of amiable, home recordings of old and new songs released to mark a significant birthday. At the end of 2020, Anton O’Donnell won Americana UK’s inaugural Twang Factor, a series which provides a showcase for […]
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Merry Hell “Let The Music Speak For Itself”

June 15, 2023 John Jenkins 0
Essential album for lovers of folk music that can proudly sit among the great albums of that genre. In an age the general public, as we are led to believe, only listen to a song for […]
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Justin Rutledge “Something Easy”

June 15, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Smooth, smooth sounds of summer? Opening with the lines ‘I was an angry young man’ this album attempts to wrongfoot listeners with its sentiments whilst delivering a shimmering, melodic, slowly building ballad tinged with melancholy. By […]

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Adam Klein with Adam Poulin “Live at Leesta Vall Sound Recordings”

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Intimate, personal songs, recorded live and elevated by expressive fiddle playing. Adam Klein’s Live at Leesta Vall Sound Recordings originates from a raw, intimate 2019 in‑studio session with violinist Adam Poulin, recorded at Leesta Vall in […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Blue Water Highway

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Blue Water Highway is an Austin-based Americana/folk rock band. Their signature is considered songwriting across a variety of styles, but always melodic, with fantastic harmony singing. Musically timeless, there are elements of Laurel Canyon songwriting, focussing […]

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

April 28, 2026 0
Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

April 23, 2026 0
At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]

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Video Premiere: Haymakers “A Lot of Good Girls (Will Go Bad)”

April 15, 2021 0
Featuring beautiful mandolin and harmony vocals, the premiere of Haymakers’ ‘A Lot of Good Girls (Will Go Bad)’ will have you tapping your feet.  This is the first single from the upcoming album, ‘Live at the […]
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Jon Dee Graham “Only Dead For A Little While”

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Four years in the making, Jon Dee Graham’s latest reflects on death experience. The title of Jon Dee Graham’s latest ‘Only Dead For A Little While’ refers to his experience in 2019 when, after suffering a […]
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Mean Mary to tour UK and the EU

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Being the youngest of six children, and being named Mean Mary, didn’t hold back Mary James in the slightest – one would say quite the reverse.  Picking up the guitar at the age of 4, making […]

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