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Live Review: South By Southwest Festival 2024, Austin, Texas

April 8, 2024 Paul Dominy 0

In my twenty years attending South by Southwest, Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express have been there for half of them.  Even when they are not going to be in town during the week of the […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 115

October 13, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Posh seats and a boring gig. Spent a brilliant couple of days in old London town this last week. Ostensibly to catch up with friends, have a few drinks, meet up with an ex-pupil for a […]

Album Reviews

William The Conqueror “Excuse Me While I Vanish”

July 28, 2023 Peter Churchill 0

Another great album as William The Conqueror continue to impress. Following the imposition of lockdown restrictions, Ruarri Joseph found himself cocooned at home in Cornwall, ruminating on an uncertain creative future, watching on as his wife […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: William The Conqueror, The Betsey Trotwood, London – 3rd May 2023

May 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

We’re down in the cellars at The Betsey Trotwood, rather than the venue room, for a ram-packed album launch gig by William the Conqueror (Ruarri Joseph, Naomi Holmes and Harry Harding). The small lower-side rooms did […]

Album Reviews

William the Conqueror “Maverick Thinker”

March 29, 2021 Clint West 0

Impressive Los Angeles recorded third album from Cornwall based blues-rockers. William the Conqueror’s third album was recorded at the renowned Sound City in Los Angeles just before the first lockdown last year and that is not […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Bill Fay “Filled With Wonder Once Again”

Features
July 7, 2025 0
Album Art Buck Owens Adios Farewell

Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”

Album Reviews
July 7, 2025 0

Jolie Holland to release Michael Hurley tribute with Max Knause

News
July 7, 2025 0
Ead Wood Album "Cash Mountain"

Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”

Album Reviews
July 7, 2025 0

Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets

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  • For the Sake of the Song: Bill Fay “Filled With Wonder Once Again”
  • Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”
  • Jolie Holland to release Michael Hurley tribute with Max Knause
  • Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”
  • Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets
  • Emma Swift “Nothing And Forever” – what’ll it be?
  • Video Premiere: Stan Simon “Long Way Past Gone”
  • Something for the weekend: Shaboozey “Good News”
  • Charley Crockett announces new album “Dollar a Day”
  • Suzie Ungerleider “Among the Evergreens”
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  • Andy Davidson: Thanks for sharing this Rick. Been playing it a lot and wishing for Summer to arrive here in Inverness. What…
  • Dave Wilkie: Hi Andy, I've been talking to some folk at the museum. Do you have any information on the pistol(s)? Other…
  • Andy Trott: Thanks for getting around to reviewing the wonderful talent that is Holly Carter. Someone who is so passionate about her…

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Interviews

Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

July 2, 2025 0

It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

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Interview: Swarme of Beese finds more poetry in darkness than in light

June 30, 2025 0

The term mutant folk seems to fit. In the band’s early days, before The Victor Mourning emerged from the pupa into an adult Swarme of Beese, their songs elicited unusual receptions. Co-songwriter Lynne Adele recalls performing […]

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Interview: Sean McConnell on taking a journey underneath the skin

June 26, 2025 0

Looking at the cover artwork for Sean McConnell’s latest album “Skin” (Silent Desert Music, 2025), you might think he has a fixation on tattoos, what with the drawing of a hand covered in ink art from […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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