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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers to release new album “Revelations”

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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers will be releasing their fourth album, ‘Revelations’ on March 29th via Thirty Tigers.  The band’s last album, ‘Nightroamer’, came out in 2022 followed later the same year by frontperson River Shook’s […]

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Book Review: Tom Piazza “Living In The Present With John Prine”

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Book Reviews

Book Review: Tom Piazza “Living In The Present With John Prine”

May 8, 2026 0
During the opening lines of the foreword to Tom Piazza’s latest book, Living In The Present With John Prine, the widow of one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Fiona Prine, describes how her late […]
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Classic Clips: Billy Bragg, Hank Wangford and Brendan Croker “Sin City” – Live on the Whistle Test, Rock Around the Clock, 21st September 1986

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The Old Grey Whistle Test (which in its final years was abbreviated to the Whistle Test) was commissioned by David Attenborough and ran from 1971 to 1988. Broadcast annually on BBC Two between 1984 and 1986, […]
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Trippers & Askers “Tried To Do’s”

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Invest time and listen carefully, and you may find reward with this deep, introspective record. Trippers & Askers is the recording and songwriting project of Jay Hammond, musician, sound artist, educator and researcher. He is currently […]

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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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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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