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Track Premiere: Tom Irwin “Baby’s Britches” – Listen

July 26, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1
Tom Irwin is a 50-something, guitar playing guy, called “a modern day troubadour” by Wilco’s John Stirratt. He’s spent a lifetime making a living making music in the Midwest with occasional forays into the rest of the […]
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Thorp Jenson “Oklahoma” – Listen

July 25, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Richmond, Va.-based guitarist Thorp Jenson has announced the release of his forthcoming debut album “Odessa” which comes out October 20th, and he’s shared the first single “Oklahoma” at Glide who called the track, “Spirited and energetic,” and praised […]
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Micah P. Hinson “Oh, Spaceman” – Listen

July 24, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Micah P. Hinson has shared a new track ‘Oh, Spaceman’ from his forthcoming album ‘Presents The Holy Strangers’ which comes out on 8th September. “It was the first song I wrote for my boy, Wiley Tex, after he was born, and […]
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Hammydown “Automatic Sweetheart” – Listen

July 24, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Driven to ditching her acoustic guitar by an endless series of broken strings, Abbie Morin switched from her folk-rock persona to the Fender Jazzmaster sound of new project Hammydown.  It’s the quirky garage-pop that could get […]
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Rainbrother “Fat Eggs” – Listen

July 21, 2017 Jonathan Aird 1
Having struggled with immigration for their SXSW appearance this year – lead singer Bjarke Bendtsen had his entry visa which resulted in Rainbrother playing their first gig in Austin with Bjarke still on his living room couch […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Hurrah For The Riff Raff Songs

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In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurrah For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]
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José González “Against The Dying Of The Light”

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first thoughts José González is a Swedish indie-folk singer – with, naturally, the usual background in hardcore punk influenced by Black Flag and choral singing – Against The Dying Of The Light is his fifth album, […]
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Bedouine’s new album “Neon Summer Skin” out in June

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Bedouine, the project of LA-based musician Azniv Korkejian, releases her new album, Neon Summer Skin, on 5th June 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Across Neon Summer Skin, Korkejian intentionally returned to the instruments she played as a […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

April 23, 2026 0
At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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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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When our editor expressed a fondness for Raymond Carver some time ago, I added him to my list of subjects for investigation. Interviewing Willy Vlautin earlier this year his name came up just as I’d started […]
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Small Venue Heroes – Withered Hand

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Withered Hand is the name Dan Willson goes by when he’s performing his brilliant songs. At home in Edinburgh, Withered Hand packs out quite large venues, but outside of his adopted home, he concedes that small […]
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Marvellous stories and enduring characters. This is like the All-Star game in Major League baseball, but instead of Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper, Mookie Betts and Christian Yelich, executive producer Gwil Owen lined up such […]

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