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Maverick Festival – Day One, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk, 5th July 2019

July 18, 2019 David Chalfen 2
Now in its 12th year, Maverick Festival continues to be one of the premier festivals of the summer for lovers of Americana and roots music, the culmination of founder and director Paul Spencer’s working year. Festival […]
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Alice Howe “Visions” (Independent, 2019)

July 18, 2019 Louie Joe 0
Boston, MA native Alice Howe releases her first full-length album and there’s no doubt it will propel her right onto roots music lovers’ radars. Hard driving blues, modern folk or country ballads, Howe does it all […]
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Laura Victoria “Today’s Another Day” (Independent, 2019)

July 17, 2019 Andrew Frolish 0
Laura Victoria has taken her time over producing the follow up to her debut album, which was well-received in 2015. It was worth the wait. ‘Today’s Another Day’ is a consistently engaging collection of songs about […]
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Flagship Romance “Concentric” (Independent, 2019)

July 17, 2019 Tim Merricks 0
For an album penned almost exclusively on the road, touring from house party to small-town theatre, ‘Concentric‘ sounds on first spin a little too glossy, a little too Nashville paper hat for the homespun rags to […]
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Paul McClure “Market Town” (Clubhouse Records, 2019)

July 16, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Rutland’s Paul McClure is a talented singer-songwriter who on his latest album ‘Market Town‘ shows a particular affinity for the love-lorn and melody heavy stylings of the likes of Ron Sexsmith. Opener ‘The Morning and My […]

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Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

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The Bread and Roses is located in the heart of Clapham, London. Owned by The Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council, it consists of the ground-floor pub and a theatre space above. It’s a community-oriented establishment […]
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Van Morrison to play 5 night residency at new West London venue in September

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What it’s like to make an album with your heroes. Sometimes creativity can be difficult to master. Marshall always knew he had artistic talents, but it took him a long time to find out exactly what […]

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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

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“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”

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

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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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Video: Elles Bailey “Who’s That”

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It’s been an explosive start to 2023 for Elles Bailey, who picked up two awards at the recent Americana Music Association UK ceremony: UK Artist of the Year and UK Live Act of the Year.  She’s […]
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Karen & The Sorrows “Guaranteed Broken Heart” (Ocean Born Mary Music, 2019)

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One of the music industry’s most time-honoured clichés is that an artist’s third album represents a critical creative crossroads – even way back in the 1980s,   Essex folk singer Billy Bragg wryly subtitled his immortal […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 28

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After two festivals the madness begins… So we return to the fray with no restrictions and no protection other than two lateral flow tests per student before term commences. Day one I am in an assembly […]

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