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Mary Gauthier brings her live show back to the UK this autumn

June 2, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and accomplished author Mary Gauthier is to tour the UK and Ireland in October and November with Jaimee Harris as a special guest. Gauthier’s backstory is an extraordinary one, with many contradictions. One goes […]

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The Gordon Sharpe Americana Book Award 2024

January 10, 2025 Tim Martin 0

This is the second year of our tribute to our late colleague Gordon Sharpe. We felt that an award which recognised the cream of the new books we’ve reviewed over the previous year was a fitting […]

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Features

Anniversary Cheers: Mary Gauthier’s “Drag Queens & Limousines” celebrates 25 years

November 20, 2024 Dean Nardi 2

The first article in a new occasional series that will take a look at significant anniversary re-releases of iconic albums as they are put out. Happy 25th anniversary to Mary Gauthier upon the re-release of her […]

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Ben Glover “And The Sun Breaks Through The Sky”

May 7, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Northern Irish Nashville-based Ben Glover’s fine collection of songs. Ben Glover is as well-known as a songwriter as a performer, having written or co-written for a host of acts including Gretchen Peters, Mary Gauthier and Kim […]

Mary Gauthier + Jaimee Harris live at The Metronome, Nottingham, - 21st April, 2024
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Live Review: Mary Gauthier + Jaimee Harris, The Metronome, Nottingham – 21st April 2024

April 29, 2024 Graeme Tait 4

This evening’s performance took place at The Metronome, which, since it first opened its doors back in October 2018, has fast become one of the best venues in the city of Nottingham which throughout the years […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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This new feature has now been running for approximately four months. During that time, I have simultaneously sympathised with my fellow writers at the magnitude of the challenge they have faced and marvelled at the array […]

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Sturgill Simpson says “Why Not?” to touring the UK and Europe in 2025

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AUK says ” Brilliant News, Sturgill!” Sturgill Simpson will make his long-awaited live return to the UK and Europe next year, under his new name Johnny Blue Skies and touring under the banner of the ‘Why […]

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Jack Lukeman “Magic Days” (Independent, 2019)

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A big sprawling album of styles and influences this is Lukeman’s latest foray into the album market in a career that is bejewelled with high points and successes. First breaking through in the late nineties he […]

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