Kate Ellis

More People Really Should Know About: Kate Ellis

April 16, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0

Amid today’s obsession with genre labelling (is this country, is this pop, is this….whatever), it feels all the more important to cherish artists whose priorities run counter to the marketing spin, sinister algorithms and other such […]

Live Review: The ARC Songwriters, featuring Kate Ellis, My Girl The River and Anna Howie, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 2nd March 2024

March 12, 2024 Graeme Tait 2

It may well have been the first Saturday in March, and the start of a new metrological season but the weather was anything but springlike as the bravest and most passionate of music lovers made their […]

Video Premiere: Kate Ellis “The Other Side of the Street”

January 5, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

We’re delighted to premiere the latest single from Louisiana-born songwriter Kate Ellis. As a young man, Ellis’s father once played guitar with the legendary Hank Williams on the famous Louisiana Hayride and he inspired her love […]

Interview: Kris Wilkinson Hughes on The ARC Tour with Kate Ellis and Anna Howie

May 10, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

Born in Louisiana but semi-Anglicised by over twenty years in the UK, the epitome of Americana UK. If you were looking for a typical Americana UK artist then you would be hard pushed to find a […]

Video Premiere: Kate Ellis “The Story You’ve Been Told”

February 18, 2022 Andrew Frolish 1

Quite simply, Kate Ellis’s intimate voice is a rare gift, possessing a warmth and beauty that is immediately captivating and carries us through her heartfelt songs. ‘The Story You’ve Been Told’ is no exception. Over delicate […]

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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”

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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”

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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

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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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For the Sake of the Song: Dawes “Time Spent in Los Angeles”

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Videos

Video: John Butler “So Sorry”

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Check out ‘So Sorry’, the recent single from Australian singer-songwriter John Butler. With an upbeat, rhythmic feel and a light, bright sound, ‘So Sorry’ could be a perfect song for your summer. The melody is catchy […]

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New posthumous JJ Cale album announced for April

February 6, 2019 0

Because Music have announced the release of ‘Stay Around’, the first posthumous album by beloved songwriter, guitarist, and singer JJ Cale, on 26th April in the UK. ‘Stay Around’ has been compiled by those closest to Cale, his widow and musician Christine Lakeland […]

More People Really Should Know About: Kate Ellis

Live Review: The ARC Songwriters, featuring Kate Ellis, My Girl The River and Anna Howie, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 2nd March 2024

Video Premiere: Kate Ellis “The Other Side of the Street”

Interview: Kris Wilkinson Hughes on The ARC Tour with Kate Ellis and Anna Howie

Video Premiere: Kate Ellis “The Story You’ve Been Told”

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”