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Interview: Terra Lightfoot on hiking and “Healing Power”

January 4, 2024 Martin Johnson 0
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mother Maybelle Carter and a Gibson SG called Veronica. While the surname may be familiar, Terra Lightfoot is a hard-working sing-songwriter and guitarist from Canada who is known for the time she spends […]
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Terra Lightfoot “Consider the Speed” (Sonic Unyon Records, 2020)

December 21, 2020 Emily Dongray 0
Canuck Terra Lightfoot has been no stranger to our shores since her debut in 2011. From festivals to private concerts Terra Lightfoot has been making a name for herself across the world.  A rock troubadour who […]
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Video: Terra Lightfoot “It’s Over Now”

October 16, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
‘It’s Over Now’ is taken from Terra Lightfoot’s brand new album, released 16th October.  The song features a typically soulful vocal, delivered over an up-tempo, foot-tapping rock rhythm.  Lightfoot explains how the song came about: “It’s Over […]
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Terra Lightfoot “Paper Thin Walls” – Listen

August 17, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Paper Thin Walls’ is the new single from Terra Lightfoot’s upcoming studio album ‘Consider the Speed’ which will hit the streets on October 16th, on Sonic Unyon Records.  It’s the first new studio recordings from Lightfoot […]
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Maverick Festival, Easton Park Farm Suffolk, 6th – 8th July 2018

July 17, 2018 David Chalfen 0
This year’s Maverick Festival was held under glorious sunshine at Easton Park Farm in the deepest part of rural Suffolk. As usual, Director Paul Spencer  had pulled together a tremendous range of polished multinational talent which […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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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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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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AMAUK Awards 2025 winners announced

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The winners of the UK Americana Awards 2025 were revealed last night at an apparently glittering ceremony at Hackney Church, London. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings scooped Best International Album and Single awards for “Woodland” and […]
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Ian Matthews, or Iain as he became later in his career, has been on a personal musical odyssey all his career which started when he was asked to be an original member of Fairport Convention by […]

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