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Johnny Dowd “Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know”

October 26, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

Johnny Dowd heads back to Memphis for impressive 19th studio record. ‘Wrong Side Of Memphis’ was the title of Johnny Dowd’s first solo album released in 1995 after the demise of his band Neon Baptist.  The […]

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What should I do, Americana UK?

October 15, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

It was hardly a normal start to a musical enquiry such as we are accustomed (now) to address in this feature.  It was a very worried looking Willie Nelson who burst through the door to the […]

Album Reviews

Amy LaVere “Painting Blue” (Archer Records, 2020)

March 18, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

‘No Battle Hymn’, the striking first single from ‘Painting Blue’, the fifth album by Memphis-based Amy LaVere, is a timely anthem for a world in crisis. “No one’s ready to admit we may be out of […]

Live Reviews

Amy LaVere ft. Will Sexton + Between The Vines, The Rose and Monkey, Manchester, 11th February 2020

February 24, 2020 Clint West 0

Amy LaVere and Will Sexton travelled down to Manchester from their previous night’s show in Glasgow, via Newcastle. The reason for this lengthy detour, they informed us, was to retrieve Will’s jacket which he had left […]

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Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

Interviews

Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Preview: Words and Music Festival – Nantwich South Cheshire, October 11th – 17th

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As live music slowly finds its feet again it seems a good idea to give as many shout-outs as possible for upcoming events. On that basis we bring to your attention the ‘Words and Music Festival’, […]

Album Reviews

Maia Sharp “Tomboy”

September 19, 2025 0

Ten albums in and Maia Sharp delivers another intensely self-reflective album of the highest quality. In a world of superb female singer-songwriters, a name that gets overlooked is Maia Sharp, one of the best, most melodic, […]

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John Moreland drops surprise new album “Visitor”

April 5, 2024 0

Oklahoma  singer-songwriter John Moreland  has dropped his surprise new album ‘Visitor’, digitally, on his label Old Omens via Thirty Tigers.  A physical release will follow on 31st May. Recorded after a year in isolation from the […]

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