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Rufus Wainwright “Darling This Will Never Do” – Tribute to a Thompson

May 8, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
No, we haven’t messed the image up – and yes that is not Rufus Wainwright.  And no, this has nothing to do with the complaint from Loudon’s kid that we’ve all become narrow-minded since Brexit.  Nous, […]
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Parker Smith “Air Stream” – breezy new single recounts the tale of a family camping trip

May 7, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Parker Smith’s breezy new single, ‘Air Stream’ recounts the tale of a family camping trip.  John Kingsley’s Pedal steel lilts through the air as the rhythm section of Trygve Myers and Colin Agnew lopes along underneath, […]
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Something for the long weekend: Emily Barker “With Small We Start”

May 3, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader.  A shout out to Irish artists Elaine Mai, MayKay, and Faye O’Rourke who have collaborated on a new charity single ‘We Are’ alongside Rand, Rwand, Reem, […]
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Track Premiere: Slim Cessna’s Auto Club “Boucher”

May 3, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
This latest song from Slim Cessna’s Auto Club pivots on the ramifications of a mispronunciation: the character at the centre of the song rages, quite literally, against a fate which see’s him condemned to be a […]
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Wyndham Baird “If We Make It Through December” – Seasons out of time…

May 2, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Arguably this song is a few months late, with its references to Winter, December and in particular Christmas.  But on the other hand Merle Haggard’s song does look forward to the Summer, and better times ahead.  […]

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The Old Crow Medicine Show have been entertaining us throughout the 21st century. Led from the outset by the irrepressible Ketch Secor, they have cycled through some 17 members over that time, including such luminaries of […]
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Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

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Dude Cervantes and The Panchos follow up last year’s live record with their second album: a carefully considered studio effort that blends that live energy with focused instrumental and engineering maturity. Billion Dollar Art comes out […]
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Rainbow Body is a new musical collaboration featuring Taylor Goldsmith and Griff Goldsmith (Dawes), Rick Mitarotonda (Goose), Eric Krasno (Lettuce, Soulive), Ross James (Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band), and Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, […]

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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

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The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

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If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Video: Jillian Rae “Doing My Best”

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Here is the first single of 2022 from Minneapolis singer-songwriter and fiddler Jillian Rae.  ‘Doing My Best’ was originally written as part of a project to help children dealing with trauma but the positive theme is […]
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Mince Pie Mondays – Is there any Brandy Cream left?

December 16, 2024 0
Another dip into the seemingly bottomless well of more or less Americana-ish / country / singer-songwriter / folk offerings that celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.  Still a dearth of directly Solstice themed songs…we’ll […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Steve Earle

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In 1974, aged 20, Earle hitchhiked to Nashville to find one of his favourite songwriters, Guy Clark. Earle managed to blag a role in Clark’s band as a bassist and played on his 1975 album “Old […]

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