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Emily Scott Robinson “Appalachia”

January 27, 2026 John Lee 1

Emily Scott Robinson digs deeply into the historical sounds of American folk but produces a contemporary and moving album. Robinson’s latest album tackles the hard truths of life head-on, never pretending things are easy. Across songs […]

Mary Chapin Carpenter shares her “Personal History” in June

April 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer Mary Chapin Carpenter will release her anticipated new album “Personal History” on June 6th via Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers. In advance of the release, the song ‘Bitter Ender’ is out today […]

Preview: Dawn Landes to release “The Liberated Woman’s Songbook” later this month

March 19, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Singer-songwriter Dawn Landes will release a new album, ‘The Liberated Woman’s Songbook’, on 29th March 2024 during Women’s History Month. The record revisits songs featured in ‘The Liberated Woman’s Songbook’, originally published in 1971. Landes, along […]

Live Review: Bonny Light Horseman + Cat Clyde @ Celtic Connections, Saint Luke’s – 5th February 2023

February 16, 2023 Cam Fraser 0

To say that there was excitement that Bonny Light Horseman were returning to Celtic Connections was an understatement. Described previously in AUK as “the greatest psychedelic-tinged folk-rock band in the world” it was clear that great […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The 7 Hills Blues and Roots Festival returns bigger and better

August 14, 2024 0

With added Danny and the Champs! On Sunday 13th October, The 7 Hills returns to Komedia with their strongest lineup to date at this year’s “Blues and Roots Festival.” Set across 3 stages, The Blues and Roots […]

Videos

Video Premiere: The Pinkerton Raid “Sometimes, Brothers”

May 18, 2022 0

Check out ‘Sometimes, Brothers’, the new single from The Pinkerton Raid, the solo project of North Carolina’s Jesse James DeConto. The song begins with singer and songwriter DeConto playing alone on abandoned railway tracks, a fitting […]

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Video: Grace Petrie “Storm to Weather”

August 25, 2021 0

Independent artist, activist and social commentator Grace Petrie shares her brilliant new single, ‘Storm To Weather‘. ‘Storm to Weather‘ is from Petrie’s upcoming album ‘Connectivity’, the follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed, ‘Queer As Folk‘, the album that […]

Emily Scott Robinson “Appalachia”

Mary Chapin Carpenter shares her “Personal History” in June

Preview: Dawn Landes to release “The Liberated Woman’s Songbook” later this month

Live Review: Bonny Light Horseman + Cat Clyde @ Celtic Connections, Saint Luke’s – 5th February 2023

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”