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Video: The Heavy Hours “Ache”

October 21, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
This piano-based ballad is full of emotional intensity.  Lyrically, ‘Ache’  focuses on the loneliness that can be felt by both partners within a relationship in troubled times.  The song builds effectively, centred around the vocal melody […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Simone Felice “Bye Bye Palenville”

October 19, 2020 Viv Fish 2
Following on from last weeks, ‘Satan & St Paul‘ by John Fulbright, another sensational writer, performer and producer, who expresses and tackles life’s demons with charm and elegant imagery, is Simone Felice. Having come back from […]
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Video Premiere: Martin Wardley “Resurrecting the Show”

October 19, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1
This excellent video premiere is all about Martin Wardley’s gorgeous vocal.  His characterful voice and lyrics have a storytelling quality that bring to mind Tom Waits.  The video is superbly shot on location at the seafront […]
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Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “Starting Now”

October 16, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it for another week dear reader, and we leave you from the most locked-down place in the country (or at least England) with the first video and title track from the forthcoming new album […]
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Video Premiere: Arborist “The Mountain Will Come To You”

October 16, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
The plan had been to re-record two songs for a double A-side single – with a string accompaniment making them sound significantly different.  And then, like everyone else, Mark McCambridge (a.k.a Arborist) found that Covid had […]

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Book Review: Paul Slade “Blood On The Leaves”

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A few years ago, at a local gig to see the Pennsylvania band The Stray Birds, the crowd was overall polite and receptive to the music; however, let us just say they needed to warm up. […]
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Ben Chapman “Feet On Fire”

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Country rock and soul combine to fine effect on Ben Chapman’s latest release. In 2019, David Hepworth published the latest in his excellent sequence of books about rock music, and the stars and rascals who purveyed, […]
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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]

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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

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With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

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Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

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The Delines played the second night of their second UK tour of the year at The Stables, which offered quite a contrast to the venues they packed back in February. Back then it would be somewhere […]
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Rachel Sermanni “Swallow Me”

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An intimate, meditative EP of thought-provoking songs. Rachel Sermanni follows a path worn by other Scottish singers like Karine Polwart and Kim Edgar in taking a basic Joni Mitchell template and giving it a Celtic spin. […]
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Video Premiere: Jesse Lynn Madera “No Place to Shine”

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Here is the latest single from Houston-raised singer-songwriter Jesse Lynn Madera.  ‘No Place to Shine’ begins with pulsing guitar, then builds with changes in pace and new layers before the song finishes with a flurry of […]

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