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Something for the long weekend: Neal Casal “Running Wild”

August 22, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader – it’s been another week of trekking around the country for me and my little clan, this time to the chilly climes of Cambridgeshire where the […]
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Joseph Decosimo “Glory in the Meetinghouse” – fierce, unsettled edginess

August 22, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0
Joseph Decosimo creates a meditative Appalachian mood with his new single ‘Glory in the Meetinghouse’. This fiddle tune is noted as one of the songs that roots music archivist Alan Lomax recorded Luther Strong playing. The […]
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Woody Guthrie “I’m A Child Ta Fight” – all you fascists, bound to lose

August 21, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
That streak of favoured musicians on Tracks continues with the latest single released from the Woody Guthrie home recordings set “Woody At Home“, which features twenty-two previously unreleased tracks from 1951-1952 home tapes, including 13 songs […]
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Emma Swift “The Resurrection Game” – exploring (inner) life

August 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, yes, it is starting to look very much like Tracks is becoming “Favourite Artists” this week, and heck, why not?  Especially when it means featuring songs as fine as this one, the title track to […]
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Josh Ritter “Noah’s Children” – take it to the river

August 19, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
So, is this going to be “favourite artists” week ?  Could be, it is as ever unplanned if it is.  Ah, Josh Ritter – simply one of the finest singer-songwriters that this century has produced.  And […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Landmark album remastered and the path to the recording beautifully laid out. ‘Time Out Of Mind’ is a landmark Dylan album, not only was it successful and widely lauded and heaped with awards it was also, […]
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Americana Music Association announces nominees for 23rd Annual Honours and Awards

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The AMAUK awards take place here in January each year but over in the US, the (not UK) Americana Music Association (AMA) has announced the nominees for their 23rd Annual Americana Honours & Awards.  The awards […]
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Free americana is always a good thing (well, maybe not if you’re a musician) and in that spirit the Al Festo festival which takes place at the Sun Inn, Dedham, Colchester is returning for a fifth […]

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