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Lizzie No “Hard Won” (Independent 2017)

May 29, 2017 Tim Merricks 0

With Hard Won, Brooklyn’s Lizzie No has picked up the musical baton of greats like Linda Thompson and Sandy Denny, spread it thick with a shadowy relevance born of her New York background, and unleashed what […]

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Yep Roc to reissue six long out-of-print Nick Lowe titles

May 29, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

Gone are the days when he was known as “Basher”. These days Nick Lowe is somewhat venerated as a senior statesman of UK rock music but over the past five decades he’s been a pub rocker, […]

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Justin Townes Earle “Kids In The Street” (New West Records, 2017)

May 29, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

  For his eighth album Justin Townes Earle has adopted some different approaches. It’s the first time he has worked with a producer (Mike Mogis -Bright Eyes and First Aid Kit) and the first album he’s […]

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Sam Baker “Land Of Doubt” (Independent, 2017)

May 26, 2017 Peter Churchill 0

Sam Baker’s 2013 album, Say Grace, was a highly-acclaimed body of work, prompting one well known music publication to put in in the top 10 country albums of that year. It is difficult to see Sam’s […]

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Nathan Xander : “Over you, over me”

May 26, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Nathan Xander is a troubadour in the Texas sense, when he’s in Texas. Or in the California sense when he’s there. Or the Chicago sense, oh, OK. You get it. The man writes like he travels: well […]

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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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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Los Angeles based Claire Cronin has recorded ‘Bloodless‘ a fine album of haunted folk, songs which resonate with a sense of unease and hint at a disconnect from reality.  And no song on ‘Bloodless‘ better exemplifies […]

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