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Walking the trail of tears with Buffalo Blood

January 17, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Buffalo Blood is an international film and music collaboration which addresses the very current issues of displacement, immigration, refugees and the power of the human spirit through revisiting the lands, myths and histories of America’s Native […]

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Southern Fried Festival, Perth, Scotland, 26-29th July 2018

August 8, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Eleven years old this year Southern Fried continues to occupy its position as the best Americana and roots music festival in Scotland and perhaps the best of its kind in the UK (although there are three […]

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Dean Owens, The Betsey Trotwood, Clerkenwell, 3rd April 2018

April 9, 2018 Mark Underwood 0

Originally launched at the Celtic Connections music festival in Glasgow back in February, Dean Owens’ new album, ‘Southern Wind’ has been described as “blowing up a storm” ever since. Unlike the launch night at Celtic Connections […]

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Dean Owens & The Whisky Hearts + The Jenny Sturgeon Trio @Celtic Connections, Drygate, Glasgow, 2nd February 2018

February 7, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Launching his new album, Southern Wind, Edinburgh’s Dean Owens gathered together his regular band, The Whisky Hearts, to play a sold out show in this east end brewery. The album, recorded in Nashville with an all […]

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Roots In The Round – Dean Owens +Robert Vincent +The Worry Dolls, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 10th December 2017

December 14, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

Wrapping up a ten date tour,  this caravan of rootsy singer/songwriters pulled into Glasgow for their final gig on a night that saw sub zero temperatures outside. Happily, a hardy bunch came out to see the […]

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Storyteller, activist artist, and genre-fluid musician Kemp Harris has announced the release of his new album, “The America Chronicles” via his own imprint on 4th July 2025. Produced and arranged by well-known bassist and collaborator Freebo […]

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The latest release from Josh Tillman, also known as Father John Misty, is an absorbing seven-minute epic of a song.  ‘Screamland’ is a richly layered, beautifully-crafted song that swells and surges in the chorus and as […]

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