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Jon Langford announces new album

July 26, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Jon Langford has announced details of his new record which comes out on September 22nd on the Bloodshot label.  The record was recorded on November 8th, the day after the 2016 election where the Welsh-bred, Chicago-based […]

Album Reviews

Offa Rex “The Queen of Hearts” (Nonesuch, 2017)

July 26, 2017 Rick Bayles 0

This is a really fascinating album. A collaboration between classic English Folk Singer and instrumentalist, Olivia Chaney and American Indie Rockers, The Decemberists, this is a recording filled with fine musicianship and vocal work that seems […]

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Hiss Golden Messenger announces new album

July 26, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Some nice news this morning from Consequence of Sound on an AUK favourite. Awesome cover art too.  They report: “Last October, North Carolina folk artist M.C. Taylor released his latest album as Hiss Golden Messenger, Heart Like a […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Tom Irwin “Baby’s Britches” – Listen

July 26, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1

Tom Irwin is a 50-something, guitar playing guy, called “a modern day troubadour” by Wilco’s John Stirratt. He’s spent a lifetime making a living making music in the Midwest with occasional forays into the rest of the […]

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Video: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “Hope The High Road”

July 26, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

Jason Isbell will be back in the UK in October and ahead of those dates this is a new live video for Hope The High Road, taken from his The Nashville Sound album released earlier this […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Hell’s teeth but this is a good song.  Of course it is – there are a lot of special artists in Americana but few as special as Mary Gauthier.   This verbal painting of the feelings on […]

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