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Dream Team Double Header – Emma Swift and The Dears

September 16, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Wow, how time flies – d’ya’know that it’s been two years since the last drop of Dream Team Double Header? How the heck did that happen? So long, in fact, that some readers, the newer ones […]

Artwork for Emma Swift album “The Resurrection Game”

Emma Swift “The Resurrection Game”

September 16, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

Born out of a traumatic period in her life, Australian-born, Nasvhille-based singer-songwriter Emma Swift’s second full-length release (and first album release of originals), “The Resurrection Game” is a strong selection of songs. The record follows a […]

Emma Swift “The Resurrection Game” – exploring (inner) life

August 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, yes, it is starting to look very much like Tracks is becoming “Favourite Artists” this week, and heck, why not? Especially when it means featuring songs as fine as this one, the title track to […]

Emma Swift “Nothing And Forever” – what’ll it be?

July 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Emma Swift made a big hit with her album of Dylan covers “Blonde On the Tracks”, and now she’s setting up to release a new album of her own music. It’s called “The Resurrection Game”, and […]

Live Review: 2022 UK Americana Awards Launch Show – Omeara, London, 16 November 2021

November 22, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Introducing the Americana Music Association UK 2022 Nominations and Awards at a well-attended Omeara in London, Stevie Smith, AMA-UK’s CEO, reminded her audience that a year ago she had opened the proceedings from a shed in […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Videos

Video: Cowboy Junkies “Don’t Let it Bring You Down”

April 8, 2022 0

Here’s the latest single from the fabulous Cowboy Junkies. ‘Don’t Let it Bring You Down’ is from the brand new album ‘Songs of the Recollection’, which is a collection of well-chosen covers that are meaningful to […]

Tracks

Kim Richey “Chase Wild Horses” – Listen

March 16, 2018 0

Kim Richey is mixing with the right people – on the first single from her new album ‘Edgelands’ she had Chuck Prophet contributing, and elsewhere on the album there’s the likes of Robyn Hitchcock and Kim’s […]

Album Reviews

Philip Rambow “Canadiana” (Fretsore Records, 2020)

April 30, 2020 0

‘Canadiana’ is the follow up to 2015’s ‘Whatever Happened To Phil Rambow?’ and his Philip Rambow’s debut for Fretsore Records, the label behind releases by My Darling Clementine and Lily Garland. Rambow is originally from Montreal […]

Dream Team Double Header – Emma Swift and The Dears

Emma Swift “The Resurrection Game”

Emma Swift “The Resurrection Game” – exploring (inner) life

Emma Swift “Nothing And Forever” – what’ll it be?

Live Review: 2022 UK Americana Awards Launch Show – Omeara, London, 16 November 2021

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”