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New Grant-Lee Phillips album due early autumn, announces UK/EU tour dates

June 30, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and painter Grant-Lee Phillips has announced the release of “In the Hour of Dust”, his 12th solo album, on 5th September 2025 via Yep Roc Records. The self-produced album finds Phillips in introspective […]
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Preview: Celtic Connections 2023 kicks off this week celebrating its 30th year

January 16, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
Celtic Connections, Glasgow’s annual folk and roots music festival, opens its doors this Thursday, 19th January, for three weeks of concerts and events. It’s the first full-fledged festival since pandemic restrictions were ended. The festival moved […]
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Classic American Albums: Grant Lee Buffalo “Fuzzy”

July 13, 2022 Paul Gibson 2
By 1993 grunge had reached its omnipresent, powerful, destructive peak. The huge success of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden allowed a superfluity of menial chancers toting flannel shirts and pawnshop guitars to sneak in via the […]
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Grant Lee Phillips “All That You Can Dream”

June 27, 2022 Paul Kerr 0
Grant Lee Phillips tries to find some sense in a world turned upside down Given that life is getting back to something like normality, one would expect the wave of so-called “lockdown” albums to gradually subside […]
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Grant Lee Philips announces new album – new single out now

February 25, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
Grant-Lee Philips, of Grant-Lee Buffalo, has announced his latest album, ‘All That You Can Dream‘ will be released on May 20th on Yep Roc. This, his 11th album, comes soon after 2020 album ‘Lightning, Show us […]

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Live Review: Emmylou Harris, The Farewell Tour, De Doelen Rotterdam – 20th May 2026

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Electrifying, scarily powerful and quietly charismatic to the last, Harris runs the rule one final time in Europe over her exceptionally long career. Perhaps one of the most touching moments of the Emmylou Harris Farewell Tour […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “The Rugby”

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Not the usual subject of this column, but as a fellow of Northampton, I’m heading to Twickenham tomorrow, driving a coach-load of supporters for the Prem Final. Exciting times for the town as the club seems […]
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Brian Fallon “Pearls” – hey, hang on just a moment fella

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Pearls is the latest single from the solo album Not Bad For New Jersey (arriving via his own Lesser Known Records at all DSPs and streaming services on Thursday, September 10th) by The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian […]

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Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

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Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]
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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]

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Mr Alec Bowman “I Used To Be Sad, Then I Forgot” (Independent, 2020)

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Mr Alec Bowman offers the ears of the world a serving of erudite, melancholy folk. Bowman is something of an English Leonard Cohen, which is a high compliment, and one his doleful baritone is quite deserving […]
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Something for the long weekend: Marcus Mumford “Cannibal”

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Cordovas “Destiny Hotel” (ATO Records, 2020)

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On ‘Destiny Hotel‘ Cordovas blend country and southern rock with a lightness of touch that takes them deep into the roots of Americana. Above all soar their magnificent harmonies as Cordovas create a sense of total […]

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