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Lou Reed “I’m Waiting For The Man (Demo)” – Early Acoustic Version

June 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Exciting news to accompany this Track – those great people at Light In The Attic Records have a new archival release covering previously unavailable early demos of Lou Reed’s music from 1963-65.  It’s called ‘Words & […]
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Siv Jakobsen “Birthday” – You say it’s your birthday….

June 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Siv Jakobsen did not enjoy her 25th birthday.  But, making the best of a bad thing she did at least get a sardonic song out of it, so not all a loss even if it was […]
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SUSS “Heat Haze” – we’re having a heat wave….

June 8, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Now, we have to be honest with you, we’re not really sure if Ambient-Americana is a thing, despite the likes of UNCUT trying to persuade us otherwise.  Soundscapes of swirling instrumentation, twangy guitar, pedal steel distorted […]
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Eugene Tyler Band “60 Days” – And counting

June 8, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
This is unashamedly a pandemic song from modern Bluegrass outfit Eugene Tyler Band, musing in a suitably jaunty way on all the Covid tropes you can think of – watching, or not watching, the news; drinking […]
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Track Premiere: The Mattoid “Beautiful”

June 7, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
We get a lot of people who are described as troubadours, mostly these are people with a home and a tour schedule but Helsinki’s Ville Kiviniemi has a better fit to the restless wandering artist mythology […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Nick Costa “Eddie”

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The artist from Minnesota is in reflective mood, providing much-needed feedback to the powers that be on how well it’s all going, whilst paying tribute to his ‘best boy’. The nine albums of Costa’s solo career […]
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Live Review: Cat Clyde, The Lower Third, London – 30th April 2026

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Cat Clyde returned to a London stage towards the end of a short set of dates in Europe and the UK. The venue was The Lower Third, nominally on Denmark Street and operating in the same […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

April 28, 2026 0
Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Alex Dupree “Thieves”

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Fascinating collection of life, love and some narrow escapes. There are treasures here… caves and gangsters, bodies and bad guys, untrustworthy divas and the search for true love, rich dreams and poor decisions, poetry and prose […]
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Live Review: Roseanne Reid + Tom Webber, St Pancras Old Church, London – 11th October 2023

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Scotland’s Roseanne Reid charmed and captivated her audience in the intimate setting of London’s St. Pancras Old Church. Born in Leith,  Reid – daughter of Proclaimer Craig Reid– performed solo with her acoustic guitar, giving her […]
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RS Country publishes its best americana and country albums from 2018

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Obviously the world’s media are sitting on tenterhooks at the moment waiting for our writers’ and readers’ best of the past year, which will be published later this week on Thursday and Friday respectively, but if […]

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