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William Blackart “Return” (Independent, 2018)

January 7, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0
Opening in fine style with ‘Devil May Care’ this album promised much. A great opener, all discordant slashes of electric guitar and gravelly vocals set over a melancholy acoustic figure. Terrific. The following track lowers expectations […]
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Jack Lukeman “Magic Days” (Independent, 2019)

January 4, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0
A big sprawling album of styles and influences this is Lukeman’s latest foray into the album market in a career that is bejewelled with high points and successes. First breaking through in the late nineties he […]
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Beans On Toast “A Bird In The Hand” (Independent, 2018)

January 3, 2019 David Stevenson 0
Beans on Toast or Jay McAllister has been honing his craft for many years and ‘A Bird In The Hand’, his 10th release in as many years, followed tradition was released on his birthday just like […]
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Straw Bear “Fiction” (Independent, 2018)

December 21, 2018 Tim Merricks 0
Straw Bear named their band after a “bizarre” festival in the home counties during which a single participant is dressed as yep, a straw bear, in celebration of the start of the agricultural year. This says more […]
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Various Artists “The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs – Original Soundtrack” (Milan Records, 2018)

December 21, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
If you haven’t yet seen the latest Coen Brothers effort, ‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’, then you’re in for a treat. Released through Netflix (and if you haven’t got access to Netflix then surely someone you […]

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0
Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]
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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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Amy Helm has shared her new single, ‘Michigan‘, taken from her new album ‘This too shall light‘, which Helm recorded with Joe Henry some 3,000 miles from the family studio in Woodstock at the legendary United […]
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Introspective reflections on home and relationships with an Appalachian feel. Husband and wife team Watchhouse have been making music together since 2009, starting out in coffee houses in their native North Carolina, a state synonymous with […]

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