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Hear Eric Burdon’s take on For What It’s Worth

May 17, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Eric Burdon has been talking to Uncut about his new take on the Buffalo Springfield classic For What It’s Worth to mark his 76th birthday, fifty years on from the song’s original release. Why this song […]

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Glenn Yoder & The Western States “Inherited Darkness” (Independent 2017)

May 17, 2017 Tim Merricks 1

Glenn Yoder’s been churning out top-class Americana for a dozen years or so, and is now managing to both move with the times while remaining true to his roots. Since 2013, he’s been working with The Western States, […]

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Video: Garry Tallent “Stay Away”

May 17, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

A sharp rockabilly-styled song from the E Street Band man’s new album Break Time, out now.  He’ll also be playing in the UK next month with Kevin Montgomery.

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Beth Bombara “Map & No Direction” (At The Helm Records, 2017)

May 16, 2017 Owen Gillham 0

St Louis resident and punk rock refugee, Beth Bombara, might lack some of the credentials and accolades of her long-serving influences, Gillian Welch and Aimee Mann, but on this, her fifth album (sixth if you count […]

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Jason Eady “Jason Eady” (Old Guitar Records, 2017)

May 16, 2017 Owen Gillham 0

Six albums in and Jason Eady goes eponymous… could there be a hint of self-reflection and insularity in the mix? This album is certainly a distinct departure from the overt twang and clatter of his previous […]

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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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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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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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