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Live Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band, London Palladium – 6th November 2022

November 14, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 2

Mention Tedeschi Trucks Band and probably the most frequent reaction will be something along the lines of “blues rock” or “southern rock”. While not wrong, neither goes anywhere near describing the ferment of influences and sound […]

Lyndon Morgans “Of Gods and Men”

November 14, 2022 Michael Macy 2

Album celebrates love with all its messy mixture of joy and pain. ‘Of Gods and Men’ by Lyndon Morgans is his first album under his own name. He previously released eight albums with Karl Woodward and […]

Live Review: Charley Crockett + Theo Lawrence, The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 31st October 2022

November 11, 2022 Clint West 2

Charley Crockett’s show at Manchester’s iconic Deaf Institute venue was sold out some way in advance of the gig. At a time when many americana shows are struggling to recover their audience in this post-pandemic period, […]

Johanna Rose “Can’t Love You From The Ground”

November 11, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

A very impressive set of songs which reach deep into the heart of rural American music. Anyone who enjoys delving into, as Greil Marcus called it, old weird America, would be well advised to have a […]

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 […]

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

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It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

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It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

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The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]