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Book Review – Larry Starr “Listening to Bob Dylan”

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My first reaction to this book was that it seemed a bit of a high-handed approach to Dylan and his music. Why would I need someone to tell me how to listen to Dylan?! Then I […]

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

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

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Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”

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Marah Live
Features

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 […]
Album Reviews

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0
An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]
Album Reviews

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0
An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

  • For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”
  • Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”
  • Jack Studer “Falling Forward”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”
  • Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”
  • Video: Jay Buchanan “Sway” – always wanting to do it better
  • Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”
  • Danny George Wilson “Arcade”
  • Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album
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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 […]
Interviews

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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Video: Curly Strings “Kuu”

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Probably the first Estonian band featured on Americana-UK, Curly Strings new album Hoolima is out on 26 January and this haunting song is taken from it.
Album Reviews

Ordinary Elephant “Before I Go” (Independent 2017)

February 19, 2018 0
Crystal Hariu and Peter Hanmore are the married couple that are Ordinary Elephant and this is a very considered and often stately work. The album seems to be surfing some sort of zeitgeist in Americana at […]
Album Reviews

Neil Young “Hitchhiker” (Reprise 2017)

September 13, 2017 1
This is truly lost treasure indeed. In the midst of a purple patch (that most artists never see) in the year 1976 Neil Young went into the studio with his drug buddy producer David Briggs. They […]

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