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Sounds from beyond the Shed 139: “Technology – tied to the mast of a rudderless ship?”

April 19, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 1
Every week readers of this august column get to savour a couple of YouTube tracks and a Mixcloud copy of my live radio show. This was not possible a couple of decades ago, shiiit, even the […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 126 – “Cheese Intervention”

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New Year – same old post Christmas torpor. Welcome back readers and listeners and it’s a vaguely new format for a vaguely new year. Gone is the headline week of news and in comes the splash […]
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Dream Team Triple Header: Lambchop, Booker T Jones, Karine Polwart

June 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Now, you’re right, we normally only dip into the magical world of fantasy concerts as suggested by incongruously paired or tripled artists names in those oh so regular Songkick emails once a month.  These are the […]
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Classic Clips: Lambchop “Give It” – XX Merge Festival, 2009

April 22, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 1
There seem to be two lines of thinking (with a few sub-lines between them) about what the concept of Americana music should be. One sees it as a combination of all types of roots music with […]
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Shuffle: When the Gods of music smile on me

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Serendipity plays a large part in the construction of this column; indeed the whole idea behind it is predicated on what happens whilst I am listening to my iPod on shuffle. My usual routine is to […]

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Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Heartfelt tribute to the cowboy song from a leading exponent The origins of the cowboy, amazingly, originate in Spain – it derives from vaquero, a Spanish word for an individual who managed cattle while mounted on […]
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Book Review: Ian Clayton “In Search of Plainsong”

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Back in 2018, I reviewed Iain Matthews’ excellent autobiography, “Thro’ My Eyes” and, in many ways, “In Search of Plainsong” can be seen as a companion to that book. When Iain Matthews wrote his memoir he […]
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Steve Grozier “Take My Leave” (Batcat Records, 2016)

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Steve Grozier has had the four songs which make up the Take My Leave EP knocking around unrecorded for more than a decade. Not stuffed, half forgotten, in a draw like some embarrassing half finished first […]

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