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KATE DAVIS:  Done Looking Back

For the first time, she feels like she has a better sense of what she wants, sonically, and had more control of what the final arc of the record was going to look like.
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CARLY PEARCE

I will tell you that the Live album is coming out, [current No. 1 single] “What He Didn’t Do” is near the end of its life, so you’re going to get music sooner than you think. I think that a lot of people are going to assume that because I’m not going through a divorce and I’m quite happy that I’m going to be coming out with some fluffy love song, but that’s not what Carly Pearce does, so stay tuned. It’s literally the most proud I’ve ever been of a track. I’m really excited, I think it’s going to be unexpected in several different ways.
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ALREADY ON MY PLAYLISTS

Zach Bryan is a prolific songwriter and enjoys performing, so he’ certainly has his career cut out for him he is well-positioned to continue challenging established fans and turning on new ones.
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A PLACE FOR POETRY

We therefore launch today an occasional series called A PLACE FOR POETRY presented by The Poet In The Rain introducing you to some of the 21st Century's most exciting UK poets. The Poet In The Rain will deliver poetry news,  preview forthcoming events, interview movers and shakers and music-makers and review the spoken and written word.
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GUITAR RECITAL by Deigo Barber

This trio of, music, man and guitar mutually enhanced each other…,.great compositions, great playing  and  a great instrument makes a great sound
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ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE?

When asked about seeking distance from the genre, she told the LA Times, “I had to take a step back. The way I grew up was so wrapped in country music, and the way I write songs is very lyrically structured in the Nashville way of doing things. But I think I needed to purposely focus on just making good music and not so much on how we’ll market it. “
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JUST ANOTHER MOURNING

having been warned not to wander she now graces fields of tall red poppies in black and white films shot on an exotic island that could be a past or could be memory or could be the inevitable outcome of meeting a grieving widow on a day beneath a sky Picasso-blue rolling away with the ocean in wave after wave after wave of barely controlled emotion
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HONOURS AND TRIBUTES for Nanci Griffith

A good compilation often works in more than one way – to the initiated, it offers new perspectives on familiar songs – to the uninitiated, it offers a way in to an artist through a more familiar third party. This collection does both and does both well and was released on 20TH September 2023.
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‘DIDN’T YOU USED TO BE SOMEBODY?’

The sell-out audience [I am reliably informed could have sold out at least 4x] included people in recovery, supporters of people in recovery, recoverists [recovery + activist] as well as actors and media types.
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YOU´D BETTER GET IT WHILE YOU CAN

songs he acknowledges writers like Townes Van Zandt who, like Chip Taylor himself, seemed too good to be commercial (although that phrase surely doesn´t, (and nor should it), exist.