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Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Gordon Lightfoot “Early Morning Rain”

March 24, 2025 Andy Short 8

If the measure of a song is how often it is covered, then ‘Early Morning Rain’ by Gordon Lightfoot would be high in the chart. Factor in the calibre of the musicians who have embraced the […]

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Features

The First Time: Darren Lumbroso – The Jam, Michael Sobell Sports Centre, London, 12th December 1981

March 7, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 2

The Jam were a very British phenomenon who by 1981 had firmly established themselves in the hearts and minds of a generation. Their albums, such as ‘Sound Affects’ and ‘The Gift’, offered sharply observed vignettes of […]

Features

The Other Side of Me: Darren Lumbroso on the fire and skill of The Jam

October 26, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 3

I was born in Bromley. The postal address of my parent’s house stated that we lived in “Bromley, Kent”. Pre-Brexit, rather than queues of lorries, Kent conjured up images of a rural idyll, with oast houses […]

Live Reviews

Declan O’Rourke, Live stream from The Abbey Theatre, Dublin -14th April 2021

April 20, 2021 David Chalfen 0

Tonight’s set is performed in the lush and prestigious Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre, established in Dublin in the very early 20th century; its founders included WB Yeats who could turn a memorable verse or two. […]

Political Pops

Pick of the Political Pops: Paul Weller “Ohio”

May 7, 2020 Paul Villers 0

Choosing a subject for this weeks piece was tricky – should we go with Karl Marx’s 202nd birthday or the 41st anniversary of Thatcher’s first election win or the 75th anniversary of the defeat of fascism […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Richard Thompson “When The Spell Is Broken”

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Bruce Springsteen “Sunday Love” – here’s lookin’ at you kid

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House Above The Sun “Restless Idealist”

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June 16, 2025 1
Morgan Wade

Morgan Wade to revisit and reimagine her past with “The Party Is Over (recovered)”

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artwork for Bicentennial Drug Lord album "You Are Never Alone"

Bicentennial Drug Lord “You Are Never Alone”

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  • For The Sake Of The Song: Richard Thompson “When The Spell Is Broken”
  • Bruce Springsteen “Sunday Love” – here’s lookin’ at you kid
  • House Above The Sun “Restless Idealist”
  • Morgan Wade to revisit and reimagine her past with “The Party Is Over (recovered)”
  • Bicentennial Drug Lord “You Are Never Alone”
  • James McMurtry “The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy”
  • Track Premiere: Beebe Gallini “Run, Run, Run”
  • Video: MF Tomlinson “I’m on the Border” (Visual Essay by Andrea Zvadova)
  • Something for the weekend: Brian Wilson “Love and Mercy”
  • Lukas Nelson “American Romance”
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Interviews

Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 0

Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]

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Interview: Chatham Rabbits can pull from a hatful of songs

May 28, 2025 0

It’s hard to pin down and stamp a genre like a Notary Public would on Chatham Rabbits. The husband-and-wife duo of Austin and Sarah McCombie started out in bluegrass and old-timey music, but they have taken […]

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Interview: Jennifer Castle opens the door into her world of song

May 21, 2025 0

We are here to talk about the Earth Mother, We are here to talk about the Arthurian Damsel. We are here to talk about an imaginative chimera and a darker rose. We are here to talk […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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