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Live Reviews

Live review: Dean Owens & The Sinners + Kirsten Adamson @Celtic Connections, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 26th January 2023

January 31, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
This sold out show at Oran Mor was essentially two album release shows for the price of one (the subject of a running gag throughout the night) as Dean Owens (winner of our UK Artist Of […]
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Videos

Video: Kirsten Adamson “My Father’s Songs”

January 30, 2023 Andrew Frolish 2
Check out the latest single from singer-songwriter Kirsten Adamson.  Kirsten is the daughter of Big Country’s Stuart Adamson and this is a deeply personal, heartbreaking song about reconnecting with her late father and coming to terms […]
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Video: Kirsten Adamson “Stars on the South Coast”

October 20, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
The new video from Kirsten Adamson features drone footage of beautiful landscapes, truck stops and long journeys, framing the the love story told through ‘Stars on the South Coast’.  Directed and edited by Ruth Barrie, the visual […]
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Glasgow Americana to return in October

September 26, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
Glasgow Americana returns for its 15th annual Americana festival. The seven shows will run from the 5th through the 9th of October at various venues across the city. The line-up includes over twenty musicians from the […]
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Live review: Dean Owens & The Sinners + Kirsten Adamson, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 13th March 2022

March 18, 2022 Paul Kerr 0
With his new album, ‘Sinner’s Shrine’, described as… “Riding high in the charts…with a bullet, Elton John’s shitting himself,” Dean Owens was clearly enjoying being back on stage, at long last. ‘Sinner’s Shrine’, recorded with Calexico […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

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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 […]
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Album Reviews

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 […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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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 […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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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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Neil Young “Mr Soul” – from a new perspective

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It’s been a few months so of course it’s time for a new Neil Young album – here’s a man that doesn’t believe in letting the grass grow under his feet.  It’s called ‘Before and After‘ […]
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Rhett Miller talks to RS about depression and sobriety

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Rolling Stone Country have posted an interview online with the Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller which is a really interesting read. He covers a variety of topics including his struggles with mental health and the work […]
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Beth Bombara “Map & No Direction” (At The Helm Records, 2017)

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St Louis resident and punk rock refugee, Beth Bombara, might lack some of the credentials and accolades of her long-serving influences, Gillian Welch and Aimee Mann, but on this, her fifth album (sixth if you count […]

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