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Arielle Silver “What Really Matters” – Listen

March 16, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Arielle Silver is a baker of pies and a penner of poetry – and with three previous releases to her name is a musician with a back catalogue to her name.  ‘What Really Matters‘ is taken […]
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Forever Honey “Christian” – Listen

March 16, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Forever Honey walk that narrow line between the folk-rock of 10,000 Maniacs and the fuzzyness of Mazzy Star, with frontsperson Liv Price being the bounciest lead singer since Claire Grogan.  Not a lot of twang from […]
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Rumer “Hard Times For Lovers” – Listen

March 13, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
You’ll recall Rumer for, if nothing else, a wonderful cover of Jimmy Webb’s ‘P.F. Sloan‘.  And here she returns with another cover song from the mid-seventies.  ‘Hard Times for Lovers‘ was first recorded by Judy Collins […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: Marcel “Annie Devine”

March 12, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
In 2004 me and my good mate John drove across the States in one of the last “analogue” road-trips I ever took – people who say that satnav kills discovery and that maps are “all part […]
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The Dustbowl Sinners “Winter’s Bone” – Listen

March 12, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s not a popular name in the UK for some unfathomable reason, but  The Dustbowl Sinners are what they’d call an Old-Timey Stringband in the States.  With admittedly the unusual addition of accordion and prominent harmonica, […]

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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

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Brian Fallon & The Painkillers “Not Bad for New Jersey”

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His Lordship announce new album, single, and all-star shows

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Laura Veirs Live at EartH

Live Review: Laura Veirs + Karl Blau, EartH Dalston – 16th September 2026

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Our Man In The Field “Silverado”

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Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 0
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
Album Reviews

Brian Fallon & The Painkillers “Not Bad for New Jersey”

September 29, 2026 0
Heartfelt heartland rock delivered by Gaslight Anthem frontman. Brian Fallon has been making music with The Gaslight Anthem for two decades. Outside of the band, over the past 10 years, he’s released a number of solo […]
His Lordship
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His Lordship announce new album, single, and all-star shows

September 29, 2026 0
Following last year’s Bored Animal, Psychonaut Sounds/PIAS will release His Lordship’s tribute to Rock ‘n’ Roll pioneer Chuck Berry, Promised Land, on 13th November 2026, to celebrate what would’ve been his 100th birthday. His Lordship will […]

  • Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”
  • Brian Fallon & The Painkillers “Not Bad for New Jersey”
  • His Lordship announce new album, single, and all-star shows
  • Live Review: Laura Veirs + Karl Blau, EartH Dalston – 16th September 2026
  • Our Man In The Field “Silverado”
  • More People Really Should Know About: Padraig Jack
  • Greyhounds “Live On 29th Street”
  • Ella Spencer “Howlin’ Wolf” – one lie too many
  • Video: Louise Bichan “Binnorie-o” Feat. Aoife O’Donovan – adorned with bits of old fiddles
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 0
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

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Handsome Family announce two reissues, UK dates

March 2, 2020 0
The Handsome Family are one of those bands who have been around for so long that you can’t imagine modern americana as a genre without them, Brett and Rennie Sparks being the masters of songs that […]
Videos

Video: Dean Wareham & Cheval Sombre “Wayfaring Stranger”

September 3, 2018 0
From their eponymous album, out on October 26th, comes this great cinematic and soaring  treatment of a classic song.  Great video too.
Book Reviews

Book Review: David C Morton with Charles K Wolfe “DeFord Bailey, A Black Star in Early Country Music”

July 31, 2023 0
Earlier this year I reviewed ‘Western Edge’, the first book published under a new partnership between the University of Illinois Press and The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. A particularly exciting aspect of this […]

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