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I am Night Witch: Swooping over the devastation just one more time – Jon Aird’s Review of 2023

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Surely this is it, no? After 13…soon to be 14…years of doing nothing this must be the last Christmas for a decade at least in which we’ll have to suffer the ineptitude of a government that […]
Features

Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]
Album Reviews

Fruit Bats “A River Running to Your Heart”

May 5, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0
Gorgeous latest from the hardest-working man in indie-folk. ‘A River Running to Your Heart’ is a low-key beauty of a record, a small and lovely triumph for a too often despondent and agitated world. It is […]
Tracks

Something for the weekend: Fruit Bats “We Used to Live Here”

March 24, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
That’s it from us for another week dearest of readers and we leave you today with a new song from our favourite Chiropteran mammals, Fruit Bats ‘We Used to Live Here’ which is the final sneak […]
Tracks

Fruit Bats “It All Comes Back” – like riding a bike

February 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
So, when your smug friends tell you that there’s no great music being made any more, throw the new album from Fruit Bats in their lap (or…elsewhere…depending on just how smug they are being). You won’t […]

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    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Cure - Wish

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    @joe-nathan I love Heather. Lament playing now. Thanks.

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    Mount Moriah - Live at Local 506

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    Palm Sunday - Wishful Thinking EP

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Video Premiere: Naomi Campbell “The Cottage” – who will sleep in that old White House tonight?

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April 15, 2026 0

Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”

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Ian Prowse announces 12th album and extensive tour dates

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Album Art True by Tenderness

Tenderness “True”

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Bluegrass Briefs: Unspoken Tradition, Square Peg, Big Richard, New Valley String Band

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Videos

Video Premiere: Naomi Campbell “The Cottage” – who will sleep in that old White House tonight?

April 15, 2026 0
The ethereal new solo single from Naomi Campbell, a member of Motel Sundown, carries us back in time, conveying us there through a wistful melody and her yearning vocals. With a sense of forlorn nostalgia, The […]
Album Reviews

Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”

April 14, 2026 0
Superb collaboration from an americana legend and bluegrass torchbearers. Well, where to start with Jim Lauderdale? The man is so prolific that the virtual ink on the review of his last album, Country Super Hits Volume […]
News

Ian Prowse announces 12th album and extensive tour dates

April 14, 2026 0
Merseyside’s Ian Prowse has announced his brand-new album, No Names, will be released on 3rd July 2026 via Learpholl Music. Featuring special guests Elvis Costello, Steve Wickham, Damien Dempsey and Prowse’s 14-year-old daughter Rosalita, No Names […]

  • Video Premiere: Naomi Campbell “The Cottage” – who will sleep in that old White House tonight?
  • Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”
  • Ian Prowse announces 12th album and extensive tour dates
  • Tenderness “True”
  • Bluegrass Briefs: Unspoken Tradition, Square Peg, Big Richard, New Valley String Band
  • Ruth Eliza “While The Light Shines”
  • Ardentjohn “Hey Boy” – doing all right in the sunshine
  • Video: The Long Version “Late Bloomer”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”
  • Elaine Palmer “Some Seek Silver, Some Seek Gold”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Fred Beck: Nice piece, Chas! How about that other slice of Stones Americana from the same LP, “Dead Flowers”?
  • Richard Parkinson: That one is classified as an EP (Wiki; Discogs)
  • Andy Short: Agreed Alan, saw her at a Pocklington Festival many years ago and Tift was the opening act. Still put on…

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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
Interviews

Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
Interviews

Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

April 7, 2026 0
In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]

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Tracks

Jeff Tweedy records cover of Ted Lasso theme – Listen

September 20, 2021 0
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has released his own version of the theme song for Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso which was originally written and recorded by Marcus Mumford. Tweedy’s version appears on the episode that premiered […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Bird “Lay Lady Lay”

December 10, 2025 0
Check out the latest single from classically-trained multi-instrumentalist Bird, the musical project of Janie Price. The new release is an engaging cover of Bob Dylan classic ‘Lay Lady Lay’. With arrangements by Sally Herbert, known for […]
Tracks

Ethan Sherman “Cup & Porch” – modern bluegrass stylings

February 9, 2022 0
We can’t repeat often enough that Wednesday afternoon is a good time for a stress-busting instrumental, oh the relief of no lyrics for five minutes….and as we also often repeat too darn few good instrumentals come […]

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