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Dirty Dozen: Westley Horner

November 23, 2016 Rudie Hayes 0
Westley Horner is song-writer from London who’s love of Americana shines through in his impressive debut album “Silent Temper”. Despite having a London outlook, his songs are recorded with Crescent City musicians in New Orleans to […]
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Video: Small Feet “Liar Behind the Sun”

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Interview: John Paul White

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Producer, songwriter and recording artist Alabama-born and breed, John Paul White returns to a solo career after the break-up of the four-time Grammy winning duo Civil Wars. Enjoying a pace of life befitting the history of […]
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AMA-UK Awards Nomination Party: Gibson Studios, London – 15th November 2016

November 22, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0
The Christmas lights in Oxford Street are certainly pretty this year – simple glowing globes all done the centre of the street, their supports hidden in the gathering dark so they appear to hang unsuspended in […]
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Dietrich Strause “How Cruel That Hunger Binds” (Independent, 2016)

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With no prior knowledge of Strause, this album on its initial listening, harks back to a simpler era of music with nods to Gospel and R ‘n’ B and touches of Americana. The vocals are sweet and […]

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Electric Elm is a collaboration between singer-songwriter Chris Bousquet (aka American Elm) and multi-instrumentalist and producer Eric Lichter (Earl Slick, Mercury Rev). Bousquet and Lichter are longtime friends who grew up in adjacent Connecticut shoreline towns. […]

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