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NPR music streams new Willie Nelson album in full – Listen

April 21, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

So the end of another week, and another ace preview of a forthcoming album by the lovely people at NPR music, this time of the new album by perhaps the most prolific artist in country music […]

Album Reviews

Dire Wolves “Excursions to Cloudland” (Beyond Beyond is Beyond, 2017)

April 21, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Four tracks do not an EP make – not when they time-in at up to 12 minutes – so make no mistake, this release from Dire Wolves is a fully fledged album. Excursions to Cloudland is […]

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David Crosby on Trump and Ted Nugent: “what a pair of assholes”

April 21, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

You can always trust David Crosby to speak his mind and today is no exception. Spin reports: “This morning, the Nuge visited the Donald at the White House, along with the Bullgod and the Sarah Palin. […]

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Chris Stapleton “Broken Halos” – Listen

April 21, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

So this is maybe a little more country than we usually “do” but hey, you can’t keep a good song down.  Chris Stapleton’s new song, “Broken Halos,” premiered late last week and is the first track […]

Album Reviews

Richard Laviolette “Taking The Long Way Home” (You’ve Changed Records, 2017)

April 21, 2017 Rick Bayles 0

This is a good record – nicely written, songs performed well, you can’t really want for much more! Richard Laviolette is the real deal, a singer-songwriter from Ontario, Canada, Taking the Long Way Home is his […]

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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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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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The Fugitives are a Vancouver-based acoustic folk-roots group headed by songwriters Adrian Glynn and Brendan McLeod, and joined by banjo player Chris Suen (Viper Central) and violinist Carly Frey (The Coal Porters). They released their sixth […]

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Jesper Lindell “Before the Sun”

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Third time out for bluesy Swedish singer-songwriter and now well into his stride on this outstanding record. Jesper Lindell hails from Dalarna County in Sweden, northwest of Stockholm, but you would never know it. He sounds […]

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