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Track Premiere: MorningBird “Birds And Bees”

May 17, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Morning Bird started out as a duo of Rob Wheeler (guitar, mandolin, harmonica, stomp box), Jill Burkes (violin, guitar) but expanded to a trio with the addition of upright bass and guitar player Josh Palmi.  They […]
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Track Premiere: Downtown Mystic “Soul’d Out”

May 16, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Robert Allen, the driving force behind DownTown Mystic has an abiding reverence for bands like Buffalo Springfield and Rockpile, and a passion for traditional guitars, and analog recording methods.  Twin enthusiasms which feed through to the […]
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New Dangerfield “Dangerfield Newby” – and I sense danger…

May 16, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
And who are New Dangerfield?  Well, by any reckoning they are a supergroup – albeit in the rarefied world of “old timey” music, and in particular in the reclaiming of the Black string band tradition.  New […]
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Track Premiere: Lost On The Metro “Breaking Wheel”

May 15, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
The core of Lost On The Metro are Jilly and David Morey – multi-lingual married couple, high school teachers and passionate world travellers.  And, obviously, musicians.  They are soon to release a new EP entitled ‘Resonance […]
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Track Premiere: Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters “Pocket Song”

May 14, 2024 Jonathan Aird 3
‘The Ones That Stay‘ is the latest album from Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, their seventh release in total and it’ll be available in August.  ‘Pocket Song‘ is the latest single, previewing the album  It’s […]

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

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

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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. […]

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Interview: Terra Lightfoot on hiking and “Healing Power”

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mother Maybelle Carter and a Gibson SG called Veronica. While the surname may be familiar, Terra Lightfoot is a hard-working sing-songwriter and guitarist from Canada who is known for the time she spends […]
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Classic Clips : Shivaree “Goodnight Moon” Live at the Theatre Des Varietes Paris, 2002

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There’s got to be a great poll to be staged soon to find out the best debut album title ever. For what it’s worth, my nomination would be cult band Shivaree’s 1999 album ‘I Oughtta Give […]
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