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Something for the weekend: Laura Marling “Caroline”

January 10, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
That’s it from us for our first week back and we leave you dear reader with a track which 6 Music has been playing to death this last few weeks and not without good reason – […]
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Laura Marling “Patterns In Repeat”

November 12, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Marling’s eighth studio album is a deceptively simplistic offering that permeates a sense of contentment throughout. Laura Marling began work on “Pattern In Repeat”, shortly after the birth of her daughter, and first child, back in […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Laura Marling Songs

October 3, 2024 Peter Thompson 2
Surely one of the best singer-songwriters of her generation, four time Mercury Music Prize nominee Laura Marling just goes from strength to strength. As we await the release of Marling’s eighth solo studio album “Patterns in […]
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Things I Love Which Are Not Americana: Tim Martin – Archaeology

January 24, 2024 Tim Martin 0
In 1972 Tutankhamun went on tour. While at age 8 I didn’t make it to the British Museum to see him, images of the famous gold funerary mask looked back at you from newspapers, and TV. […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 106

July 28, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Dreams of school recede as the hols take hold. Despite not returning to school in September my holidays have started in the usual fashion. Heading to foreign parts in the van, sleeping a lot, drinking a […]

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Stunning homage to historical Muscle Shoals Studios recordings by budding Swedish superstar soul roots singer. A couple of years ago, your humble writer had the great pleasure to review the third album of a budding soul […]
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Bonnie Prince Billy “We Are Together Again”

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How community might just save you from yourself (and the world). “However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded […]
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On World Book Day 2026, our call for short fiction: Americana stories…

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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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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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