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Ryan Adams “Prisoner” (Virgin/EMI 2017)

March 20, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 1

A comeback, break up album – what could be better for the record buying Americana fan? Ryan Adams, the quintessential wounded troubadour, back ‘on form’ with a searing examination of a highly personal life event. Surely this […]

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Campbell Woods “Oxford Street” (Independent, 2017)

March 20, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Oxford Street, in this case, is not the glitzy miles long street of vast temples of consumerism, awash with gee-gaws and superficially attractive but ultimately empty and worthless baubles. No, this is an Oxford Street of […]

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Hear track from new Dylan album – Listen

March 20, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Which never ceases to be an exciting thing! Paste report: “Bob Dylan  has just released “Stardust,” the third track from his forthcoming triple album Triplicate, a continuation of his grizzled take on popular jazz standards. The […]

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Interview: Bronwynne Brent

March 20, 2017 Peter Churchill 0

Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, Bronwynne Brent has recorded two albums, the 2011 Deep Dark Water and 2014’s Stardust. Her music and songs have an air of self-confessed melancholy that are delivered with a […]

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Video: Chris Jamison “Mindless Heart”

March 20, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

Nice video for the slice of country soul that is the title track from Chris Jamison’s new album, out on April 14th.

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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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