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Video: Particle Kid and Willie Nelson “Die When I’m High (Halfway to Heaven)”

July 19, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
Micah Nelson’s lyrical love letter to his father becomes a poignant duet as Willie joins him on vocals and guitar.  Micah Nelson, AKA Particle Kid, eschews his esoteric electronic experiments for a straightforward biographical account of […]
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Video: Particle Kid “Amerikan Lyfe”

April 7, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
‘Amerikan Lyfe’ is one of two new singles from folktronica artist Particle Kid.  This song features Willie Nelson on guitar and vocals (Particle Kid is Willie’s son, Micah Nelson). “Who can define an Amerikan Lyfe?” is […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 James McMurtry Songs

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Essentials: The Top 10 James McMurtry Songs

May 21, 2026 0
It was the legendary American author Stephen King who said, “James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation”. At the same time, much closer to home, BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris called him “the […]
Album Reviews

Bedouine “Neon Summer Skin”

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A beautiful reflection on family, and the search for home and belonging, with a new depth to the music. Bedouine is the project of Azniv Korkejian. Her family has migrated between Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia […]
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Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

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Esteemed Portland, Oregon-based artist Laura Veirs has announced that her new album, Temple Songs, will come out on 14th August via her label Raven Marching Band Records. Veirs has also shared her lead single Flying Into […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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In 1998 when ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’ was released my musical tastes were much more rock-oriented and my gradual assimilation into all things Americana was really just beginning and I paid it scant attention […]
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Paperback Riders: Woody Guthrie “Bound for Glory”

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An engrossing self-penned account by one of Americana’s key figures. When starting this series I said something about not wanting to review biographies of any sort – and here I am about to renege on that […]
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Taken from the ‘Studio 13 Session Live at Revolution Recordings‘ EP (and read the review here) this recording of Jason Molina’s ‘Blue Factory Flame‘ is a stunning interpretation – eerily spooky and the interplay with Diana […]

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