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Billy Bragg, Online Concert – Streaming from 9th September 2021

September 29, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
An evening with Billy Bragg, and if not quite yet live in person this live-streamed event (with 30 days of return viewing) is as close as it gets right now to that elusive live experience. In […]
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Interview: Champ Paul Lush on Araluen and his own musical journey

March 25, 2021 Martin Johnson 0
Musical omnivore and guitar for hire Champ on his own songwriting and influences. It may just be a case of the best of three when Danny and the Champions of the World guitarist Paul Lush finally […]
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Araluen “And There It Is”

January 25, 2021 Paul Campbell 0
Well crafted country-soul songs with a hint of other paths Araluen’s “And There It Is” is the vehicle for Paul Lush’s collection of songs. Lush contributes guitar to Danny and the Champions and has recruited Steve […]
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John Prine Tribute – ‘He Was In Heaven Before He Died’, Jazz Café, London, 8th December 2020

December 23, 2020 Mark Underwood 0
Before this expertly curated evening was put together its promoter, the mutli-talented instrumentalist and musician, Joe Harvey-Whyte, said the world could be divided into two camps: “those who love John Prine’s music and those who’ve yet […]
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Heartworn Highways live tribute planned for August

June 11, 2019 Mark Underwood 0
An evening that’s sure to be of huge interest to London-based lovers of music documentaries and Americana music is a live recreation of the cult film, Heartworn Highways. Set in the unique and intimate surrounds of Wilton’s, […]

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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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Simon Joyner “Tough Love”

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In the lo-fi indie folk tradition, a deeply personal meditation on grief and loss by the Omaha, Nebraska-based singer-songwriter. There is something deeply intriguing about an artist who has, through the 30-plus years of his career, […]

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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

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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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Video Premiere: KB Bayley “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime”

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Here’s the video premiere of KB Bayley’s moody interpretation of The Korgis’ global 1980 hit ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’. The song is utterly transformed and made into something altogether new by Bayley, whose spellbinding performance […]
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Bob Spring “American Dream” (Independent, 2020)

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Many would wonder why a non-American artist, in this case, Bob Spring From Switzerland would even come up with an album called ‘American Dream,’ let alone claim it is Americana music. Frankly, they should stop wondering. […]

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