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Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: Raymond Carver

November 8, 2024 Tim Martin 2

When our editor expressed a fondness for Raymond Carver some time ago, I added him to my list of subjects for investigation. Interviewing Willy Vlautin earlier this year his name came up just as I’d started […]

Features

More People Should Really Know About: Joe Pug

October 29, 2024 Tim Martin 3

As usual I found Joe Pug through reviewing one of his albums. In this case “The Flood In Color” back in 2019. After digging a bit deeper I learned about his path into music through the […]

Album Reviews

Joe Pug “Nation of Heat: Revisited”

August 8, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Revamp, Recycle and Reimagine. Joe Pug is one of those names you might have heard but never really paid much attention to; on the strength of this album, that would be to your detriment. Fifteen years […]

Tracks

Joe Pug “I Do My Father’s Drugs”

June 29, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Joe Pug has a new album out – it’s not a remix, it’s not a remaster it’s an all new recording even if the title does seem a little familiar: ‘Nation Of Heat | Revisited.’  In […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 34

November 4, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

Back with a bang and a small prick Half term done and despite the sense of melancholy mentioned last week and possibly some SAD caused by the clocks going back, it’s good to be back although […]

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  • Interview: Counting Crows with Love from A(dam) to (durit)Z
  • For The Sake Of The Song: The Dillards “I’ve Just Seen A Face”
  • Meir Levine “Long and Lonesome Highway”
  • Deep Dark Woods will release new album “The Circle Remains” in autumn 2025
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  • Jeffrey Martin “Edge Of Lost” – on the losing end
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Interviews

Interview: Counting Crows with Love from A(dam) to (durit)Z

June 23, 2025 1

It was thirty-two years ago when Adam Duritz of Counting Crows wrote a song about wanting to be famous, a rock ‘n’ roll star. He worried about being a one-hit wonder with ‘Mr. Jones’s, which of […]

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Interviews

Interview: The Brother Brothers – What’s going on?

June 18, 2025 0

This interview took place just before The Brother Brothers left the US for a tour in Australia, which was cancelled when David Moss passed out while swimming in the surf and nearly drowned. You know we’ve […]

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Interviews

Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 0

Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]

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Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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