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Van Morrison joins Americana Awards 2017 line-up

August 29, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

If we could afford to cover this in person we would, although you do avoid Van on a bad day biting your head off (sorry, lazy journalism there). Rolling Stone Country reports: “Eclectic UK rock legends Van […]

Billy Bragg’s new song tackles the new populism

July 12, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

As reported in Paste magazine Billy Bragg has released a new song, The Sleep of Reason, a spare electric-guitar track that aims its venom at social-media trolls, Internet addicts and folks who fly Confederate flags “just […]

Billy Bragg pays tribute to Woody Guthrie at Folk Awards – Watch

April 7, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

This will set your weekend off to a good start, it’ll elevate the hairs on the back of your neck (well until you read the Trump bit of the accompanying piece). Spin reports on Wednesday evening’s events: […]

Billy Bragg on Question Time: “What kind of people are we?”

February 10, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Billy Bragg was on fiery form on Question Time (BBC1) from Torquay last night, talking about the harsh new atmosphere of conversation in the era of Trump and the UK government’s attitude to migration. “Tony Benn once […]

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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”

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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 […]

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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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