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The Cover Letter “In My Soul” – Listen

January 17, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Founded in the Texas garage of bassist Jarrod Nall and guitarist/vocalist Jacob Shipman in 2013, the band released their debut, self-titled EP just two years later. Their sophomore EP, Cities Made of Sand, came out in […]
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Alela Diane “Ether & Wood” – Listen

January 16, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
‘Ether & Wood’ is the new single taken from Alela Diane’s forthcoming long-player ’Cusp’ which is an album about motherhood. She explains: “‘Ether & Wood’ is a reflection on the different lives that are lived within a lifetime. […]
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Courtney Marie Andrews “May Your Kindness Remain” – Listen

January 16, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Loose has been one of our favourite labels since the beginning of time and their very own Courtney Marie Andrews won best female artist in the AUK end of year poll last year.  Last week shared the […]
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Kyle Craft “Exile Rag” – Listen

January 15, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
The country-tinged “Exile Rag” is the delightful new single from Kyle Craft’s “Full Circle Nightmare”, his forthcoming second album available on 2nd February worldwide on Sub Pop.   While working on a farm in Northern California, Craft coined the […]
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Wes Youssi “High Time” – Listen

January 12, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Wes Youssi was raised on Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves, and he channels a classic country sound – High Time is jukebox in a lonesome diner country.  There’s a twang and a tale to be told, […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

April 21, 2026 0
Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

April 21, 2026 0
Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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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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Fellow Hollow “Violet Paper Wings”

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Soothing, emotionally fragile indie-folk songs dealing with loss and grief Andrew Gavin Williams and Luke Elliot Fleeman are an indie-folk duo from Columbus, Ohio. Singer and lyricist Williams also performs in Deadwood Floats. ‘Violet Paper Wings’ […]
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Jaspar Lepak “Ever Gonna Fly” – Listen

March 2, 2021 0
Jaspar Lepak has kept busy through lockdowns, the folk/Americana singer has taken up banjo and embroidery classes on Zoom, she also is an avid reader.  That last is intimately tied up with her music as Jaspar […]
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Two Men in a Mazda: Perspectives on Wesley Stace’s 2024 Tour of the UK – Part 2

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In May 2024, I spent two and half weeks with one of my favourite singer song writers, Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding), on his first UK tour for some time. These two articles provide some […]

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