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July 2026 Playlist
This months playlist is accompanied by a photo feature. If you read my review of the latest Tift Merritt album you will have seen my referring to the first time I saw her at a festival about twenty years ago. Well, that was actually the 2006 Cambridge Folk Festival, I was taking photos to go… Read more
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Richard Thompson – Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 25th June 2026
I have seen Richard Thompson live more times than I can remember over the past three decades, but this is the first time he has ever considered performing a strip. Not, I should add, because he has hit a fork in the road and is exploring other tactics to bag attention, but rather because we… Read more
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Fresh Juice 29th June 2026
Beth Orton – Waiting Beth Orton’s new album is a stunning left‑turn from an artist who has spent three decades refusing to sit still. ‘The Ground Above’ demonstrates how she has moved beyond folktronica tags and past expectations to create something raw, spacious, and beautifully unguarded. The album is a suite of eight songs that… Read more
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Beth Orton – The Ground Above
Beth Orton first began to surface around thirty years ago, the charismatically detached voice that had featured a little on electronic dance tracks began to plough her own folktronica field with the release of debut album ‘Trailer Park.’ It was a graceful thing of acoustically decorated beauty, full of agelessly memorable songs instantly marking Beth… Read more
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New Mix: Fruit Tree Records – Fresh Juice 2026 Vol. 9
Welcome to Volume Nine in our series of new music, latest release and soon-to-land gems, collectively known as our Fresh Juice offerings. Well, it is the middle of a record breaking heatwave in the UK right now so maybe this is just what we all need, but temperature thoughts aside, we should always find a… Read more
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Tift Merritt – Sugar
Country music is having a big moment these days, if anything it can plausibly be claimed this is the biggest era since the 1950s where the genre has become a major presence in the mainstream. And I am all for it, even though the real big hitters of our time seem to have a pop… Read more
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