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Neil Young “Mr Soul” – from a new perspective

December 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
It’s been a few months so of course it’s time for a new Neil Young album – here’s a man that doesn’t believe in letting the grass grow under his feet.  It’s called ‘Before and After‘ […]
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Uncle Lucius “All The Angelenos” – heading out for vistas new

December 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
One of the most popular stories we’ve ever run is “Whatever Happened To…Uncle Lucius”, and clearly we need to go and update it because they are back, and then some.  They have a new album, ‘Like […]
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Something for the weekend: The Burrito Brothers “Christmas Moon”

December 8, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dearest reader and if you’re not already sick of the Christmas mush rush (we promise to not overdose you), we’re leaving you until Monday with a track from […]
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Jingle Bells Friday – probably time to get that tree up…

December 8, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
It is a vexed question – when to put the tree up?  Some do it in November, some wait for Christmas Eve and some don’t have a tree at all.  And really it’s all about what […]
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Cary Morin “Indian Hunters Return” – the stories seen in a painting

December 8, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Cary Morin’s upcoming release is ‘Innocent Allies‘ – which is out January 26th, it’s an album Morin explains, that was “inspired by the famous Western painter Charles M. Russell and my life in Great Falls, Montana, […]

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Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

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Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]
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Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

June 12, 2026 2
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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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

June 10, 2026 0
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

June 5, 2026 1
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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The first release from an upcoming album ‘Grand ole Otley’, this is the perhaps unlikely combination of Ryan Hamilton, the Texas rocker who grew up on country greats, and Tony Wright of Brit-Rock hitmakers Terrorvision.  As ever it’s a shared […]
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Lundberg’s past as frontman for Soundtrack Of Our Lives (and the much missed Union Carbide Productions) gives us some clues as to what to expect from this solo effort. UCP were heavily indebted to the Stooges […]
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There are some artists who chip away at the coal face of an existing musical genre, and there are those who through the dint of their efforts take a form that is in danger of becoming […]

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