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Mike Jacoby “Long Beach Calling” (Independent 2019)

September 6, 2019 Ewan Lury 0
When you get given an album to review, the first thing you see is the album cover. An album cover can straightaway tell you what you can expect from the album. And when you see the […]
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Chris & Adam Carroll “Good Farmer” (Independent, 2019)

September 5, 2019 Ben Roberts 0
Country music has been brimming with husband and wife couples that are renowned for making fantastic music together. Chris Stapleton and Morgane Stapleton, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, Johnny Cash and June Carter, Tim McGraw and […]
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The Living Street “It Won’t Last” (Independent 2019)

September 5, 2019 Alan Fitter 0
If you only heard ‘Home On The Road’ the first track off The Living Street’s second album ‘It Won’t Last’ you might think you were about to hear the last great summer album of the year […]
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Alasdair Roberts “The Fiery Margin” (Drag City Records, 2019)

September 4, 2019 Mike Elliott 0
Alasdair Roberts continues his exploration of traditional song structures, melodies, and instrumentation with a foot – and an ear – in the present with his latest, ‘The Fiery Margin.’ Joined again by bassist Stevie Jones and […]
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The Harmaleighs “She Won’t Make Sense” (Nettwerk, 2019)

September 4, 2019 Louie Joe 0
The Harmaleighs is a Nashville duet formed by guitarist Haley Grant, bassist Kaylee Jasperson and Susan. Technically, that should make a trio, right? But truth be told, Susan is not a real person, as she’s just […]

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

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Enjoyable southern rock release with lyrics that focus on the positive. Formed in Brooklyn at the end of 2006, but now based in North Carolina, Yarn tend to lean towards the southern rock element of americana. […]
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Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0
“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

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The Song Remains: Wizz Jones (1939 – 2025)

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Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Davey Graham…the great guitarists of the British folk boom of the 1960s are leaving us one by one and now, sadly, we have to add Wizz Jones to that number. Very much […]
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John Jenkins “If You Can’t Forgive You Can’t Love”

July 28, 2021 0
A varied collection of strong songs that repays repeated plays. After being involved with Liverpool bands The Persuaders and Come in Tokio in the 80s, John Jenkins reappeared in 2015. He says of the shift from […]
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Lucinda Williams “Where The Song Will Find Me” – Waiting for the muse to turn up

May 30, 2023 0
Lucinda Williams is a legend, and never more so than in her resilient majesty on recent tours and here with a song from the new album ‘Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart’ (out June 30th via […]

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