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I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

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Has this year actually finished up already?  Ignoring everything that happened for good and for ill out in the greater world, it has been a crazy musical ride – so many fantastic albums, so many amazing […]
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Folk Roundup – Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh, Harbottle & Jonas, Si Kahn and George Mann, Anthea Fever, House of Hamill, Sam Carter

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It’s a fine collection of vowels and consonants that adorns our banner this time – a band who surely organised their names to raise a wry smile, and another who sound suspiciously like a firm of […]

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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

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Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”

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Album Reviews

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0
An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]
Album Reviews

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0
An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

March 23, 2026 0
The last three weeks have been a struggle. The events in the Middle East have been horrific in their scale and scope. These are events of global significance, and if we didn’t know it then, we […]

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  • Jack Studer “Falling Forward”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”
  • Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”
  • Video: Jay Buchanan “Sway” – always wanting to do it better
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Video Premiere: David Starr “Angel from Montgomery”

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It is hard to believe that a year has passed since the legendary John Prine died and it’s a fitting tribute to premiere this excellent cover of one of Prine’s greatest songs.  Following his well-received album ‘Beauty […]
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Giulia Millanta “Tomorrow Is A Bird”

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Songs of reinvention and life and tomorrows. Florence-born, now Austin-based, Giulia Millanta has produced for her seventh studio album a collection of songs almost of the dreamer, of searching, trying to determine whether the future will […]

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