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Artwork for "Is Heaven Real" by Johnny Dowd. Picture by Jon Langford

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

June 12, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]

artwork for Kris Drever album "Doing This For Love"

Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

June 12, 2026 2

Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winner Anyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many […]

Cover art for Jesse Colin Young album "Light Shine"

Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

June 12, 2026 0

Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]

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