The uplifting 'Bring Me Back' is the latest single from Juana Everett, following the release of the atmospheric 'One Million Dollars'. Full of yearning, the song imagines a romanticised past and the coming-of-age memories that have become a nostalgic place Everett wants to return to. It's a theme we can all associate with as we dream of escaping back to what we perceive to be simpler times.

Nashville singer-songwriter weaves a magic spell on second album. Sometimes, knowing the details behind music one listens to doesn’t necessarily help the appreciation of the music. This is one of those rare occasions. Ophiuchus is a constellation in the northern hemisphere, the “serpent bearer” or Serpentarius, first described by Ptolemy in his geocentric semi-nonsense Almagest. It’s the 13th zodiac constellation orphaned by the limited availability of calendar months.

A masterclass in taking powerful performances into the studio without losing the raw energy of one of the great live singers. Jerry Joseph is one of the most explosive live performers you’ll see. Armed with just and acoustic guitar and a performance dynamic enough to power a small town he throws himself into every song. When a conversation with Widespread Panic Bassist Dave Schools turned, in Joseph’s words, to talk of a “parallel universe where I was a big rock star and which songs would be my hits?

Dillon Warnek’s “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep” is a sharp and dizzying collection of songs about everything and anything. “Rolling Stone” raved that his debut album “Now That It’s All Over”, was full of “wry character studies about con artists and dead men.” The saga continues as Warnek revels in such tales, with his wry, anecdotal, and subversive lyricism.

The contribution made by Australian artists to the Country and Americana music scene worldwide is far too often overlooked, particularly on this side of the pond, yet they have produced some of the finest musicians and singer-songwriters of the genre. This evening was a timely reminder of that fact, with not one, but two of their country's finest gracing the stage at Lincolnshire's premier Americana music venue to play what would be one of just four shows in the UK during this current European tour.

Light, poppy indie-country with strong melodies and engaging words about life’s struggles. “Strange Trip Ahead” is Canadian Mariel Buckley’s third studio album, after her 2018 debut “Driving in the Dark” and 2022’s “Everywhere I Used to Be”. It is no great departure from these two, but that’s okay, as it is full of good songs with great “earworm” melodies and catchy choruses.

Dirt Road Souls sing about dirt roads, soul, and going home on their new single, ‘Hold on Soul’.  The Boston-based trio released this single in anticipation of their new twelve-song concept album, ‘(The Life and Times of) Johnny Moonshine’. Singer Davis Black reflects on the lyrics, “'Hold on Soul’ was first written many years ago when I had left my small town and gone off to start a life in Boston.

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This is a strange song to speak about - it's in one of those topics that inspires a "what the mighty wind are you talkin' about?" when you hear it.  The Montvales on today's song were inspired, Molly Rochelson explains, by "falling in love with my partner (who initially moved to East TN to go to a Bible College where dancing wasn’t allowed) at a Knoxville dive bar.