Events
Tap Tap Tapping – Larkin Poe Come A’mericana Knocking
Descendants of celebrated US writer Edgar Allen Poe, since forming Larkin Poe in 2010, Rebecca and Megan have proven a formidable duo both in and out of the studio. (read more)
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Features
Lone Star State Of Mind – Peeking Behind The Curtain With Jarrod Dickenson
There are certainly things to be avoided in Nashville as far as I’m concerned. But to me that’s a different business altogether and it’s a different thing, it’s really the entertainment business and not the music world to me. (read more)
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More Authenticity, Less Plastic – Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 Delivers On All Fronts
CFF 2019 showcased some incredible new talent. Amy Montgomery is one of the few performers who stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to lower your lens to breathe in the sheer brilliance of it all (read more)
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Any Port in A Storm – Brothers Osborne Make Land
Drunken shanty renditions of Drank Like Hank would be heard throughout the streets of London into the early morning. (read more)
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A Beer Drinking Fender Bending Duck-tailed Buckaroo
On CALL ME LUCKY, Watson sings with fondness about his girlfriend, rockabilly singer Celine Lee, on “You Weren’t Supposed to Feel This Good,” while “Mama’s Smile” would have been perfectly suited for a young Elvis. (read more)
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Cracking Nuts Under The Apple Tree
Their music has an underlying groove combined with an earthy spirituality that makes you want to kick off your boots and dance around the nearest stone circle. (read more)
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Chewing Up A Banjo Plucking Storm
The Dead South show a sold out O2 Forum they aint no punks (read more)
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Revving Up For Christmas – Horton Gets Kinky
e last saw Jim Heath playing London’s O2 Islington in the sad wake of Cramps drummer, Nick Knox’s passing. Now REVEREND HORTON HEAT come roaring back with their 12th masterpiece Whole New Life. The zesty, infectious eleven (read more)
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Ashley McBryde Wears Her Heart On Her Sleeve
Arkansas’ rising Country star smashes Islington’s Assembly Hall (read more)
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Cool As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018
ambridge Folk Festival 2018 poured the perfect mix with the extended weekend getting off to a flying start on Thursday with the fast and wild trashgrass of Whiskey Shivers. With a lead singer sporting a (read more)
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Sexy As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018
With headliners First Aid Kit and Patti Smith, Cambridge Folk Festival has become far more than a meeting of beardy real ale connoisseurs with pewter tankards and mandolins. (read more)
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Horton (Heat), That’s Some Show!
Reverend Horton Heat brings his whiskey-soaked drawl to London for a rare UK show. (read more)
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Craic is pretty moreish!
Trebuchet slides its way down to Islington on a snowy St Patrick’s Day to bear witness to the Country stylings of ex-Popster Derek Ryan. (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Country to Country 2018 Launch
Photographic highlights of the Country to Country 2018 launch event (read more)
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Boots and Buckles at the Country to Country 2018 Launch Party
The Country to Country (C2C) 2018 launch was an event in itself. (read more)
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Genres: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Box
Searching for antidotes to the Genre-Box-Pox (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Frankie Ballard
Heart-pumpin’ high energy country. Photos of Frankie Ballard at Islington Assembly Rooms (read more)
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A Little Country, A Little Rock ‘n’ Roll. (Frankie Ballard, Islington Assembly Hall)
Leopardskin body, tiger feet? Frankie Ballard glams up country at Islington Assembly Hall (read more)
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Please Stomp on the Grass: Hayseed Dixie
Tie-dyed dungarees, banjos and beards – Hayseed Dixie prove that beauty’s all in the ear (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Honey Ryder
Honey Ryder brought bright Americana to a soggy Islington night. Photos (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Aaron Watson
Bright as dawn over Laredo, photos of Aaron Watson onstage at the Garage, London (read more)
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Viral Vaquero: Aaron Watson at The Garage
Bringing country to town, Aaron Watson tips a stetson to The Garage (read more)
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Touching Down at the 100 Club (Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys)
Bringing twenty-five years of swinging Western tunes to the UK, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys (read more)
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Easy on the whiskey now! Cockadoodledon’t (Vinyl re-release)
Listening to Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers feels like swillin’ liquor in a Kentucky barn which, if you’re very lucky, you aren’t sharing with the hogs. (read more)
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A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]
Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona (read more)
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Red Ink and Difficult Happiness [Beth Hart]
This has been the most difficult, the most scary experience I’ve had writing and making a record and I know why. It’s because I was scared. (read more)
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Manns’ slightly plain voice is flawless, but uninspired.
There are some moderately engaging, essentially pleasant, songs on the album. Actually, they all are. (read more)
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Ramblin’ Man Fair [25-26 July]
Blues, Classic rock, country, prog, gourmet food, a beer festival, spoken word stage, music cinema, luxury camping and accommodation. Hoo YAH! (read more)
News
RIP : George Hamilton IV
Country music legend George Hamilton IV has died aged 77 of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee (read more)