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Elles Bailey “Take A Step Back” – slow it down

November 4, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Elles Bailey is one of the leading lights of the UK Americana scene, and following the announcement of her upcoming album “Can’t Take My Story Away,” which comes out January 16th on Cooking Vinyl and Outlaw […]
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Dirt Road Souls “Hold on Soul”

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Dirt Road Souls sing about dirt roads, soul, and going home on their new single, ‘Hold on Soul’.  The Boston-based trio released this single in anticipation of their new twelve-song concept album, ‘(The Life and Times […]
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Something for the weekend: Caamp “Porchswing”

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Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Happy Halloween!  If you haven’t perused our new community forums yet then please do drop in and say hello, it’s our social experiment to see if […]
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Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – something wicked this way comes

October 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Ah, I fear this will be our last meeting, for the fell day has arrived – Halloween, that some do call Goth Christmas…and this is our last opportunity to offer you a comfy seat… sit anywhere… […]
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Stephen Simmons “Grandpa’s Jacket” – welcome to the show

October 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
There is an unnamed, but well stocked, subgenre of music in general which reflects on the toll that the troubadour life takes, and ‘Grandpa’s Jacket‘ by Stephen Simmons is well within that subgenre.  There’s a weariness […]

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