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Album cover artwork for "Almost Home" by Ghost Hounds
Album Reviews

Ghost Hounds “Almost Home”

April 23, 2025 Andrew Raw 1
Southern rock with words of love, loss and heartache, done well. This is Ghost Hounds’ fifth studio album and the southern rock here has a comforting familiarity starting with the ZZ Top-like opener ‘She Runs Hot’. […]
Videos

Video: Ghost Hounds “Before You Leave” (feat. Lainey Wilson)

April 3, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
This recent single from Ghost Hounds is an aching song of heartbreak.  Featuring the voice of Lainey Wilson alongside SAVNT’s smooth, melodic vocals, “Before You Leave” is an emotive song that reflects on letting go when […]
Videos

Video: Ghost Hounds “You’ll Never Find Me” (Live from Ocean Way)

January 16, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest video from country-rock band Ghost Hounds.  This is a strings version of the previously released studio recording of “You’ll Never Find Me”, recorded live at Ocean Way in Nashville.  Directed by Allister Ann, […]
Videos

Video: Ghost Hounds “You’ll Never Find Me”

November 12, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the excellent new video for ‘You’ll Never Find Me’ from country-rock band Ghost Hounds.  The accompanying visual, directed by Jay Arcansalin, is a truly cinematic piece of work, brilliantly shot and edited to tell a […]

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Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 244 “There by the grace…”

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Kaatwalk “Open Your Eyes” – can you really not see what’s before you?

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Album Reviews

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

July 13, 2026 0
No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart. Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Mary Gauthier
News

Mary Gauthier announces new album “Reckoning”

July 13, 2026 0
Mary Gauthier has announced the release of her latest album, Reckoning, via Soundly/Thirty Tigers on 25th September 2026. The new record is described as exuding an urgency during turbulent times, while offering inspiration and hope. Each […]

  • Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”
  • Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers
  • Mary Gauthier announces new album “Reckoning”
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  • Kaatwalk “Open Your Eyes” – can you really not see what’s before you?
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Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
Interviews

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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Tracks

Track Premiere: Sara Rachele “I Can’t Relate to You”

August 1, 2025 0
It’s been a few years since we last featured Sara Rachele. We hear she’s spent some time teaching but is now getting back into recording some new music. Both things are good news in their own […]
Album Reviews

Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade “There Used To Be Horses Here”

May 7, 2021 1
Amy Speace delivers – simple as that. Fathers and Daughters. Mothers and Sons. Only the most complex of familial relationships are examined on Amy Speace’s latest album which she notes was “written between my son’s first […]
Previews

Storm alert! Emily Barker’s Hurricane hits the UK this week

October 29, 2018 0
The always lovely antipodean americana singer-songwriter Emily Barker whose latest album ‘Sweet Kind of Blue’ received a glowing review from us last year, is touring around the UK this week. The AMA-UK artist of the year […]

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