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Video Interview: Amy Rigby on “Hang In There With Me”

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Why you can still be relevant as an artist in your 60s and living in Norfolk. Amy Rigby started her career in New York when Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones were the leading bands, forming […]

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Walled Garden Music Festival announced for July

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Nottingham’s Cosmic American Music has teamed up with the historic Thoresby Park in Sherwood Forest to curate a brand new Americana and Roots festival within the grounds of the estate in North Nottinghamshire, a stone’s throw […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Track Premiere: Jerry Joseph “The Man Who Would Be King”

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What do we think of Jerry Joseph?  Well, whilst setting up the date for today’s premiere of the title track of his new album the following phrase was used: “would absolutely want to premiere any song by […]

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Talent spotted by BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris, (who calls the new album,“Wonderful – heartfelt and real”), Keating appeared live on the Bob Harris show twice and has performed at leading international festivals, including Take Root […]

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Country outlaws, past and present, join forces and come up with a  truly modern country album Lest one forget, Jessi Colter was one of the original “country outlaws” in that she was one of the quartet […]

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