A LITTLE BUNDLE OF SUMMER. sidetracks & detours 3rd September 2025 featuring Jazz Artist, Jenny Bray. Broadcaster and writer, Steve Bewick, Expo Folk and Sound Roots

SIDETRACKS & DETOURSWednesday 3rd September 2025 edited & published by THEATRE OF THE MIND written by NORMAN WARWICK & PETER PEARSON UK FOLK MUSIC AUGUST NEWS by Expo Folk UK FOLK MUSIC LATEST CHARTS by…

PASS IT ON: MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER by Pearson & Warwick

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER FREE SPECIAL BONUS EDITION 3rd August 2025 a Warwick / Pearson edition CONTENTS 1 Mary Chapin Carpenter & discography    Norman Warwick still plays all her albums  …
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JAKE BLOUNT & COUNTLESS FRIENDS DISPLAY GENERATIONAL RECIPROCITY

JAKE BLOUNT & COUNTLESS FRIENDS GENERATIONAL RECIPROCITY Norman Warwick mingles meet in THE SHADED AREA BETWEEN CIRCLES I know I´m always talking about Venn Diagrams and here I go again. My forty three year old son…
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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS JUNE 2025 occasional series

SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS an occasional publication owned and published by Norman Warwick Sunday 15th June 2025 CONTENTS Karla Harris                        …
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STORIES: I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU

she digs into the deep recesses of herself with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music
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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

The songs [on Love Will Be Reborn] are autobiographical in many ways
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MEMBERS OF A DYNASTY (Part 1) Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is the first of two stars we feature in sidetacks & detours this week, the other being Martha Wainwright, who is part of an acting and musical dynasty.
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BAND BOOKS: DIFFERENT STORIES

I have selected two books, each written or co-written by two members of The Band, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson respectively.
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When Canadian musicians started a revolution SOUTH OF THE BORDER

I look back to when I was one and twenty, as A E Housman would have had it, and feel sure I was in my salad days. I had fallen in love with a generation of songwriters and was enjoying the folksy, pastoral music that was a gentler sibling of rock. We had a stereophonic recording player that was like a piece of furniture and it had a sliding door over the turntable and I often tried to squeeze my head into the cabinet so that I could hear, even better, the fierce emotions wrapped in such laid back and softly sung arrangements. When I married and had a home of our own I was enjoying listening to how this generation of Canadian songwriters began to influence the writers who would forge what we now call Americana.