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Martin Simpson “Home Recordings” (Topic, 2020)

November 23, 2020 Harold Hogan 0
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Martin Simpson needs no introduction. The most nominated individual in the history of the BBC Folk Awards, Simpson is well known as an outstanding writer and musician. He had planned for his […]
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Here are ten notable acoustic guitarists

August 25, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 10
This top-ten is meant to highlight acoustic guitar music, usually without vocals or vocals that are secondary to the music and not generally what the artist is known for.  I had been thinking about John Fahey […]
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Martin Simpson has a new album and a big tour

July 10, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
The new Martin Simpson album ‘Rooted‘ emerges on Topic Records on August 30th (the deluxe 2CD version of the album will include a companion disc ‘Seeded‘).  And if that title conjures up images of zipping up […]
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New Martin Simpson album out September

May 10, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Martin Simpson has announced the release of his 20th solo album in 40 years ‘Trails & Tribulations’ which is out on September 1st 2017 via Topic Records. The new studio album, his […]

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Alela Diane “Who’s Keeping Time?”

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Collaboration brings a beautiful folk album with words of love. This is Alela Diane’s seventh album, and the story behind it starts with the death at the age of eighty-three of her great friend Michael Hurley. […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 David Lowery Songs

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David Lowery is an icon of americana who has been making music for over forty years and has never lost his passion for all things rootsy, rocky and melodic. His first band was Sitting Ducks which […]
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Josiah and the Bonnevilles “As Is”

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A slight shift in musical style makes for a refreshing sound that relays strong stories. Josiah Leming, the man who goes by the stage moniker of Josiah and the Bonnevilles, has been honing his craft since […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Peter Donovan “This Better Be Good” – oh, it is

April 29, 2022 1
It might be that from the photo’ you’re imaging some kind of bedroom recorded angsty folk.  Oh boy, are you way off beam.  Peter Donovan’s new song is the title track of his solo album, released […]
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Kacy & Clayton “Carrying On” (New West, 2019)

September 30, 2019 0
“Should’ve married for money, like any woman in her right mind would do / instead I settled for love and don’t you know that that’s the worst thing you can do.” So begins ‘The Forty-Ninth Parallel’, the […]
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Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets

July 7, 2025 0
These days five years seems like an entire lifetime so cast your mind back if you will to the spring of 2020 where while the world was wrestling with the Covid-19 pandemic, there were still musical […]

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