The Winnie Blues

The Winnie Blues “Half Wide Awake, But Dreaming”

August 23, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

Debut album from Australian Americana duo The Winnie Blues features capable harmonies and intense songwriting. Rom-com screenwriters, take note! Scoring a point for the inexorable hand of fate, Australian expats Alice Beatty (writer, vocalist) and Cameron […]

Video: The Winnie Blues “Lonely Love”

August 16, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Lonely Love’ by The Winnie Blues begins with gentle, weeping piano before beautifully delicate finger-picking is introduced along with the weary voice of Cameron Potts: “It’s time for me to leave.” It’s a carefully measured opening […]

Video: The Winnie Blues “Little Pressures”

April 9, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Sometimes you just need to find a quiet spot on your own, loosen your tie and dance. Beginning with a steady strum, a powerful beat kicks in along with a throbbing bass and then ‘Little Pressures’ […]

The Winnie Blues “Coming Home To You” – Listen

December 7, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Fate had a hand in the formation of The Winnie Blues – that at least is what Alice Beatty and Cameron Potts say, and who are we to contradict them? They both went to a Ruby […]

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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 […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

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 […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

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”

March 11, 2026 2

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 […]

Features

Readers’ Picks: Bonnie Bishop “Be With You”

May 7, 2021 1

Daniel Shutt from Leeds introduces us to a name that will be unfamiliar to many. Our second Readers’ Pick brings to our attention a Texan singer relatively unknown in the UK, despite a back-catalogue of nine […]

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The Song Remains: Don Nix (1941-2024)

January 7, 2025 0

Legendary Memphis songwriter, musician and producer. Though he released nine solo albums, Memphis musician Don Nix, who died at home in Germantown, Tennessee in his sleep on New Year’s Eve, main claim to musical fame is […]

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Garett Heath “Kingdom Come” – searching for the truth

June 9, 2021 0

‘Kingdom Come’ is the title track of Garett Heath’s news album, which will be released on July 30th. It finds the Pennsylvanian contemplating the nature of truth and searching for something to make sense of the […]

The Winnie Blues “Half Wide Awake, But Dreaming”

Video: The Winnie Blues “Lonely Love”

Video: The Winnie Blues “Little Pressures”

The Winnie Blues “Coming Home To You” – Listen

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”