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Ben Cook-Feltz “Magnet On Your Refrigerator” – is Nashville Eden?

September 7, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Ben Cook-Feltz has some doubts about Nashville – it’s just possible, he suggests, that Nashville is not the centre of the Universe, musical or otherwise.  And as a result he doesn’t have any intentions of upping […]

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Jingle Bells Friday – just two more sleeps…

December 23, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Yes, just two more sleeps which is either really really exciting or far too little time.  Or both.  What will be coming under the tree/in the stocking/by Parcelforce a few days late?  Well, hopefully something musical […]

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Ben Cook-Feltz “Life’s Rich Buffet” – Sample as you pass along

July 22, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Pandemic times have brought many things – and one of them is contemplation of the meaning of life.  Quite deep.  Ben Cook-Feltz found himself moved to eschew his regular ’70s singer-songwriter style and take a dreamier […]

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Jingle Bells Thursday aka Friday – Here it is, Merry Christmas

December 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, this is it.  We’re putting this feature to bed for another year.  Maybe, just maybe, if you’ll be good then we’ll have another go in 2021.  Quality Christmas songs being available being the real requisite […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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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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Intelligent and idiosyncratic 50s inspired rock-n-roll. Scottish band The Strange Blue Dreams release their second album of genre-defying curios: ‘Simple Machine’. Recorded before the big C and languishing on a shelf for a couple of years, […]

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Exhibition: Mondo Scripto – The Lyrics and Drawings of Bob Dylan (Halcyon Gallery, 2018)

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