Coming from the big choruses division of American Indie-Folk bands, Bandits on the Run also have a great “it was fate” backstory: a young cellist catching the late train home happens upon a busker singing and […]
The shock of writing a self-portrait and the joy of recording an Ink Spots tribute with John Prine. Who says you can’t teach a dog new tricks? Declan O’Rourke had built a respected career as a […]
Clean-cut pop ditties laced with deftly produced, occasionally mawkish Americana. Memorably insipid. When the co-founder and primary songwriter of a band as famous as INXS makes an Americana album, it’s fairly predictable that even mainstream media […]
A new re-issue of the classic Dylan biography as he nears his 80th birthday. Never judge a book by its cover – but in this case that is going to be the first thing that becomes […]
We’re not out of the woods completely, but there are some promising signs coming with respect to the current pandemic. Ricky Stein’s been thinking about the future – on what changes, if any, there will be […]
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