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Seuras Og
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From back down a retro path, a lone groover lurches, blinking……. Still writes bollox about music. No longer doccing.
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A required retrospective of the adopted Madridēnos, the track record of these dogs with a few newies thrown in for better than good measure.

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#albumreview#mondegreenrecords #trackslaid #trackscovered @trackdogs.bsky.social @seurasog.bsky.social
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April 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#jesssilk #oldbrokenisle @seurasog.bsky.social
Jess Silk - Old, Broken Isle: EP Review : At The Barrier
Give a girl a guitar and she'll gallop: more broadsheets from the Jess Silk barricades!
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April 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Dean Owens, our favourite Leither is back, this time embroidering his wares with some well heeled Italianana; spaghetti (country and) western, maybe, for an album better than that pun.

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Dean Owens - Spirit Ridge: Album Review – At The Barrier
Dean Owens, our favourite Leither is back, with some well heeled Italianana; spaghetti (country and) western, for an album better than that pun.
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February 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A personal dispatch and a musical petition to maintain a language, culture and way of life. Cynefin transcend understanding of the language, through the beauty of its construction.

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#albumreview @seurasog.bsky.social @cynefinmusic
Cynefin - Shimli: Album Review – At The Barrier
Cynefin offers up a musical petition to maintain a language and way of life.
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January 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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@ainsleyhamill.bsky.social with some new Gaelic R'n'B
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AINSLEY HAMILL – Fable (own label AVH003)
Unfamiliar name, with a quick scan of the contents of Fable suggesting nothing overly novel to be encountered, this was an immediate misstep. Female singers and the Gaelic songbook usually suggest …
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January 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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CFP. Carpenter, Fowlis & Polwart. Astonishing, astounding, amazing. All of that. More. New album out today and @seurasog.bsky.social is on it.

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Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart - Looking For The Thread: Album Review – At The Barrier
Carpenter, Fowlis & Polwart. Astonishing, astounding, amazing. All of that. More.
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January 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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@seurasog.bsky.social is at the #KitchenGardenCafe for @jesssilk.bsky.social

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Jess Silk - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham: Live Review – At The Barrier
Acoustic guitar toting singer songwriter and prolific social media queen, Jess Silk is at the Kitchen Garden Cafe. So is Seuras Og....
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January 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Covers of Every Song on Warren Zevon's 'Excitable Boy'
January 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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@seurasog.bsky.social is in Brum for an Xmas encounter with the #SharonShannon big band, paying tribute to #Shanemacgowan

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The Sharon Shannon Big Band - A Tribute To Shane: Live Review – At The Barrier
Sharon Shannon and her Big Band pay tribute to Shane in Brum.
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December 22, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Morris like there's no tomorrow.....
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Boss Morris - Boss Morris: Album Review – At The Barrier
Morris for both minors and matures, to absorb and enjoy. File the work of Sweeney , Harbron & Rutter under 'lovely'.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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The albums list always precedes the single songs. One fella seems to have had a lot to say!
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The Best Cover and Tribute Albums of 2024
Hebrew covers of Leonard Cohen! Ska covers of Weird Al! Fingerpicked covers of Kraftwerk! And more of the year's best—and strangest—records.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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A lovely set of covers from @brigidmaepower.bsky.social

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Review: Brigid Mae Power's "Songs For You" - Cover Me
Just in time for Santa comes Brigid Mae Power's "Songs for You," covering some of her father's favorites in a way both of the moment and eternal.
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December 18, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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A Jul gift from Sweden, Baskery do Shakey:
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Review: Baskery's "The Young Sessions - Live to Tape" - Cover Me
The three Swedish sisters that make up Baskery bring their banjo-punk sound to the ten Neil Young covers that make up "The Young Sessions."
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December 16, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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A Hendrix cocktail to treat your ears
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Covers of Every Track on Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland'
Our tribute to "Electric Ladyland," Jimi Hendrix's third and final studio album in his lifetime, has genres ranging from 8-bit to world music.
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December 14, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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@seurasog.bsky.social catches up with My Daring Clementine at the Kitchen Garden, Birmingham.

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My Darling Clementine - Kitchen Garden Café, B'ham: Live Review – At The Barrier
My Darling Clementine at Kitchen Garden Cafe. Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish surmount the insurmountable.
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December 11, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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A squeezebox-and -fiddletastic Christmas (plus) to soothe any a jaundiced ear. And all of those in the know.

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Jackie Oates & John Spiers - A Midwinter's Night: Album Review – At The Barrier
A squeezebox-and -fiddletastic Christmas (plus) to soothe any a jaundiced ear. And all of those in the know. A Spiers & Oates production.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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The gift keeps giving! Ross Ainslie

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Ross Ainslie - Pool : Album Review – At The Barrier
Wow! Blimey! All of that as neo-trad goes disco. New album - Pool - from Ross Ainslie.
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December 6, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Busy old time of year: Innocence Mission:
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The Innocence Mission - Midwinter Swimmers: Album Review – At The Barrier
Wafty dream-pop with a sense of heritage and permanence from The Innocence Mission.
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December 5, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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And meanwhile, on Folking.com

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December 4, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Happy birthday, Mark, R.I.P.
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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas: Album Re-Issue Review – At The Barrier
Campbell & Lanagan. The evil Sinatra/Hazlewood, Birkin/Gainsbourg or is it Sonny and Cher. Re-issued gem for Lanegan's 60th.
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December 4, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Another door closes; with a bang!

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Calan - Nefydd : Album Review – At The Barrier
Welsh power station closes with a flourish of inspired neo-trad on Nefydd by Calan.
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December 3, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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From another site:

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Cover Classics: Jimmy Somerville's 'Suddenly Last Summer' - Cover Me
he Cover Classics takes a closer look at all-cover albums of the past, their genesis, and their legacy. Jimmy Somerville, should you need reminding, was the idiosyncratic voice of both Bronski Beat an...
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November 30, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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On a roll; The Unthanks

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The Unthanks - In Winter: Album Review – At The Barrier
The Unthanks unleash a concept album to challenge the concepts of even the hardiest grinch, all performed with their ineffable idiosyncracy.
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November 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Janice & Jon
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Janice Burns & Jon Doran - Great Joy To The New : Album Review – At The Barrier
Jan Burns and Jon Doran embrace the seasonal baton with relish and it is anything but a turkey, vegetarian or otherwise. Hallelujah!
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November 28, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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The Sea Kings, Glasgow:
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The Sea Kings - Fear Is All Around: Album Review – At The Barrier
If not all around, fear certainly lurks under the surface, as Glasgow's Sea Kings pick up from where they left off, a decade ago.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:30 PM