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Live Review: Cwtch Festival, St Davids, Wales, 28th -30th October 2022

November 11, 2022 Oliver Gray 1

Steve Prior is a musician who used to be drummer for The Caves and Peter Bruntnell. When he moved to St Davids in Pembrokeshire to open a B&B, he had a dream of setting up a […]

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Corbin Dooley “Western Trauma”

November 11, 2022 Viv Fish 0

Darkness ahead – proceed with caution. For Corbin Dooley, as a child growing up in the rural south, emotion could be seen as a sign of weakness. As a result, when told to be “tough” as […]

Live Review: Aoife O’Donovan and the Age of Apathy Band + Donovan Woods, Barbican, London – 2nd November 2022

November 10, 2022 Richard Parkinson 2

This show, originally scheduled for May 2020 under the banner Songs and Strings Tour finally took place on a very wet 2nd November this year as part of the Age of Apathy tour. Aoife O’Donovan was […]

Rich Hopkins & Luminarios “Exiled On Mabel St”

November 10, 2022 Richard Parkinson 0

New collection of songs from Rich Hopkins & Luminarios which should delight his fan base and provide an excellent addition to future live shows. Tucson, AZ-based Hopkins has been performing as Rich Hopkins & Luminarios for […]

Live Review : Stereo Naked + Rain Of Animals Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 2nd November 2022

November 10, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

A truly international night of entertainment occurred in Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on a very dreich and dreary midweek evening. If, say, a hurricane had hit the Southside, those in attendance would have shrugged it off as […]

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Rae Spoon “Assigned Country Singer At Birth”

April 23, 2026 0

Non-binary singer returns to their country roots with intimations of mortality. After a twenty-year spell away from the genre, Canadian Rae Spoon returns to their formative years with Assigned Country Singer At Birth, their thirteenth album. […]

Red Rooster crows no more

April 23, 2026 0

We hate to be the bearers of more bad news with everything else going on in the world at the moment but another UK festival has fallen by the wayside. This time it’s Red Rooster which […]

Deer Tick “Everything Born” – goes through changes

April 23, 2026 0

On 5th June, Providence’s Deer Tick will release their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, via ATO. In advance of that comes the customary singles, of which Everything Born is the latest, and it touches on the LP’s underlying […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0

Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]

Interviews

Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0

Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0

Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]

Album Reviews

Red Tail Ring “Fall Away Blues” (Independent Release, 2016)

November 29, 2016 0

Red Tail Ring are Laurel Premo and Michael Beauchamp and ‘Fall Away Blues’ is their fourth full length album. Hailing from Kalamazoo, Michigan, this duo has produced a stripped back album with gorgeous vocals and harmonies […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Hannah Rose Platt “Chanel & Cigarettes”

August 23, 2019 0

Hannah Rose Platt has a new album, ‘Letters Under Floorboards‘, out on October 25th. This is the first single from it and very good it is, the ideal way to start your weekend. The video’s good […]

Tracks

Love – is it all there is?

February 13, 2026 0

You know by now that we never miss a chance to have a themed Track special if we possibly can, and what could be more special than Valentine’s Day with all that it entails? It offers […]