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Classic Clips: Mary Chapin Carpenter “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” – Live at the 1993 CMA Awards

January 7, 2022 Peter Churchill 0
Ah Mary. Was it really almost 30 years ago? A career bursting with high points and one that has seen her move further and further away from the increasingly narrow field of vision that is the […]
Album Reviews

Mary Chapin Carpenter “The Dirt And The Stars” (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers, 2020)

September 17, 2020 Sean Hannam 0
‘The Dirt And The Stars’  is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s first collection of new material since 2016’s ‘The Things That We Are Made Of.’ Her last record, ‘Sometimes Just The Sky’, which came out two years ago, […]
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Mary Chapin Carpenter “Stones In The Road” (Columbia, 1994)

July 8, 2020 Peter Churchill 1
Mary Chapin Carpenter can be credited with bringing this reviewer out of the musical wilderness that was his post teenage decade; the 1980s. Struggling to identify with anything remotely described as popular at the time it […]
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Mary Chapin Carpenter has a new album

June 15, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Her first new release since 2018, ‘The Dirt and The Stars‘ is the upcoming album from Mary Chapin Carpenter – it’ll hit all good music vendors on August 7th and is released through Lambent Light Records […]
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Mary Chapin Carpenter announces UK dates, new album

February 9, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
The new album from Mary Chapin Carpenter (no relation to Karen or Jesus) ‘Sometimes Just The Sky’, will be released March 30th via Thirty Tigers, and features new versions of some of Carpenter’s best-known songs as well as […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

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The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]
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Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0
The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]
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Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

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Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

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  • All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December
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Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

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Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

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Video: The 502s “Feels Good to be Me” (Live from the Porch)

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The infectious positivity of this song is fabulous.  You can’t help but smile as you watch the sheer joy the band find in performing together.  The song is based around a catchy, singalong chorus that will […]
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Jerry Leger “Lucky Streak – Latent Lounge, Live From The Hangar”

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An excellent solo performance of songs plucked from Leger’s back catalogue. Fast becoming a favourite on the UK live circuit, either solo or with his band The Situation, Canada’s Jerry Leger at times seems too good […]
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Video: Adam Douglas “Joyous We’ll Be”

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Beautifully shot on location in Adam Douglas’s adopted home of Norway, the video for ‘Joyous We’ll Be’ brings hope in troubled times.  Douglas has never been a political songwriter until now.  Yet, he sees the world […]

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