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Tripliciti “In Lak Ech”

February 14, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, here’s some good fortune – a Wednesday instrumental interlude on a Wednesday when we may need it more than ever, yeah St. LoveisAllAround day is here again bringing with it the promise of heartbreak and […]
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Susan Werner “Lake Of Stars” – My god, it’s full of stars

February 14, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Over twenty five years of a musical career Susan Werner has played in a variety of styles, but is perhaps best known as an acoustic singer-songwriter playing coffee houses and folk festivals.  On new album ‘Halfway […]
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Mitchell Makoons “Courage” – Rocking across the plains of Manitoba

February 13, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Mitchell Makoons melts through the Manitoba winter with his new track ‘Courage’.   The song is an uptempo cooker that blends Makoons’ Ojibway roots with straightforward americana. In 2022 he was nominated for three Manitoba Country Music […]
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Iron & Wine “You Never Know” – What will you do on the world today?

February 13, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
‘You Never Know‘ is a first advance release from the upcoming seventh album ‘Light Verse‘ from Sam Beam’s band Iron & Wine.  It’s been seven years since the last full album ‘Beast Epic‘, so it’s safe […]
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Junior Sisk (Featuring Dan Tyminski) “A Man Like Me” – I walk alone…

February 12, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Another Monday, another start of the week with a Bluegrass tune, and ‘A Man Like Me‘ is everything a Bluegrass ballad of broken hearts and love gone wrong should be.  There’s a great interplay between the […]

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June 12, 2026 1
Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winner Anyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many […]
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Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

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Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]
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Kiefer Sutherland “Grey”

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Kiefer Sutherland delivers the latest in a sequence of high-quality album releases. Everyone knows Kiefer Sutherland, right? He’s that big-name actor, a member of Hollywood royalty and part of the Brat Pack in the 1980s; he […]

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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 1
Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

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With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

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Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

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