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Track premiere: Amelia White “Rhythm of the Rain”

October 9, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1

This is a nice way to start a wet Monday morning. Amelia White’s new album “Rhythm of the Rain” which we recently described as “East Nashville’s finest at the top of her game” is out in the […]

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Video: May Erlewine “Never One Thing”

October 9, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

Now this is very good indeed, a life-affirming song with gospel overtones and a powerful message  from May Erlewine, who’s one third of The Sweet Water Warblers and has released more than a dozen solo albums.  […]

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Johnny Cash’s Unearthed will be released as a huge vinyl boxset

October 6, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

And some final news from Pitchfork before you break up for the weekend.  Have a good one dear readers. They report: “Johnny Cash’s 2003 box set Unearthed, a posthumous collection of previously unreleased recordings with Rick Rubin, […]

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Pick Of The Political Pops – Merle Haggard “Oke From Muskogee”

October 6, 2017 Paul Villers 0

From down here in the AUK Bunker it often seems as if the Left (like the devil?) has all the best tunes. We have identified this as a decent little ditty from a small ‘c’ conservative […]

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The Hanging Stars “Honeywater” – Listen

October 6, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Honeywater is the new single from London-based psych folk outfit The Hanging Stars, taken from their forthcoming second album “Songs From Somewhere Else” due next year.  Taking cues from both sides of the Atlantic, the quartet mainline […]

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Ruen Brothers have announced their new single ‘Finer Things’, written in Nashville with Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs. It’s the second single from their recently released, debut album ‘All My Shades Of Blue’.   The album was produced by […]

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