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Video: Amanda Shires “Hawk for the Dove”

June 7, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
Serious trouble.  Hawks circle the skies above Los Angeles as Amanda Shires plots a seduction.  ‘Hawk for the Dove’ is the new video from Shires’ seventh album.  Shot in black and white, Shires is alone in […]
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Amanda Shires to release new album – first single out now

May 27, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and virtuoso violinist Amanda Shires has shared her new single, ‘Hawk For The Dove‘. It is the first new single to be unveiled from her forthcoming album ‘Take It Like a Man‘, set […]
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Jingle Bells Friday – Hey, looks like the rules changed again…

December 10, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Just two more weeks to go, and the party season is either well into its swing by now, or alternatively has been cancelled.  Everyone’s making those travel plans, or perhaps alternatively deciding to just stay home.  […]
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Classic Clips – The Highwomen “The Chain”, The Howard Stern Show, 2019

November 26, 2021 Rick Bayles 0
The Highwomen came about following a conversation Amanda Shires had with producer Dave Cobb, during the making of her 2016 album ‘My Piece of Land’. She thought of creating a female ‘supergroup’ in homage to the […]
Features

Classic Clips: Blackberry Smoke with Amanda Shires “You Got Lucky” – Live from Southern Ground, 2018

October 15, 2021 Rick Bayles 0
I remember being blown away when I first stumbled on this. Blackberry Smoke are a band I like but always find that little bit more interesting when they’re playing acoustically; team them with everyone’s (well, mine […]

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Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album

March 24, 2026 0
Pat Carter, singer/songwriter of acclaimed alt-country band Rodeo FM, and his partner in crime, Luis de Cicco, head man of hill country blues combo Caboose, will hit the road again in April 2026, promoting their new […]
Art work for Andy Thomas album "Highway Junkie"
Album Reviews

Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”

March 24, 2026 0
A big-hearted, big guitar album that will leave a smile on your face. Andrew Thomas Trongone has chosen to record and release his debut album after a couple of years away from music, having realised he […]
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Tony Trischka And Billy Strings “Gentle On My Mind” – the ever calming balm of banjo

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So the good news that I can bring you this morning – and are you ready to hear the good news? I truly believe you are. The good news is that we have, here at Americana […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul, Liverpool, 30th June 2018

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For the second time in less than a year, ‘Little’ Steven Van Zandt is on-stage and in charge of Liverpool’s O2 Academy.   ‘Sweet Soul Music‘ has opened up the show and a five-piece horn section are […]
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The Teskey Brothers “Live at the Hammersmith Apollo”

July 18, 2025 0
A third live rendition of dependable blues from the Australian siblings. These days, americana acts filling sizeable venues in the UK, despite not being household names, is not unusual, which is testament to the growth of […]
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Paperback Riders returns

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Paperbacks Ride Again, or what is American(a) literature? Rick Bayles, Books Editor, writes: When Gordon Sharpe passed away earlier this year we lost a good friend and colleague, but we also lost a talented writer who […]

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