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The Pine Hearts “Lost Love Songs”

February 4, 2022 Martin Johnson 0
Pacific North West bluegrass with echoes of punk and funk. The term bluegrass was coined in 1965 for the genre of music created in the ‘40s by Bill Monroe whose backing band was called the Blue […]
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The Pine Hearts “Back To Sustain” (Independent, 2020)

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The Pine Hearts sound just like you would expect a band who hail from the foothills of Washington State’s Cascade Mountains to sound like. A three-piece string band, they are as refreshing as a mountain stream […]

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Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”

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2025 was another extraordinary year for Scottish singer-songwriter Dean Owens. Last year started with a headline show at Celtic Connections in Glasgow to launch Owens’ acclaimed twelfth studio album, Spirit Ridge, before touring Australia with his […]
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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0
Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]
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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

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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

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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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Live Review: Americana Fest, American Museum & Gardens. Bath – 2nd/3rd July 2022

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Holding a festival of Americana music in the grounds of Claverton Manor, home of the Museum of American history and Culture, on the edge of Bath was the inspired idea of Matt Owens, best known as […]
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Oliver Earnest “The Water Goes the Other Way”

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Influenced by indie-rock styles Stuttgart’s Oliver Earnest explores the fragility of achieving peace in a complex world. ‘The Water Goes the Other Way’ emerges from the indie-rock end of Americana possibly best exemplified by the fuzzed-up […]
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Rolling Stone Country are carrying a piece this morning on Rhett Miller who’s fronted the Old 97’s for a quarter of a century but still manages to remain unbearably handsome. It’s that washing his face with unicorn tears […]

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