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Peter Graham “Nowhere in Tacoma” (Skyefarmrecords, 2017)

July 18, 2017 Peter Churchill 0

Peter Graham is a Canadian singer-songwriter from the village of Millbrook, Ontario. Despite having a decade of song writing behind him this 5 track EP, Nowhere in Tacoma, is his debut. His music blends traditional country […]

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Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers announce new album

July 18, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers will release “The Long-Awaited Album” on Rounder Records/Decca Records on 22nd September. The record is Martin’s newest collaboration with the Grammy-winning North Carolina-based band the Steep Canyon Rangers, and “full of […]

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Roxanne de Bastion, York City Screen Basement Bar, York, 4th May 2017

July 18, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

Support for this show is from ‘Fawn UK’, part, it would appear, of York’s hip crowd. Her teenage vigour makes me feel old; reading lyrics from an iphone for a new song rather than a fag […]

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Micah P Hinson – “Oh, Spaceman” – Listen

July 18, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Idiosyncratic Americana troubadour Micah P Hinson returns with a new album Presents The Holy Strangers, out on Full Time Hobby on 8 September.  Oh, Spaceman is the first track made available from it – and it’s […]

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Paul McClure and the Local Heroes “Paul McClure and the Local Heroes” (Clubhouse Records, 2017)

July 18, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

Given the number of gigs he plays up and down the country it comes as something of a surprise to find that Paul McClure, aka the Rutland Troubadour, has managed to find the time to record […]

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