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Brother Roy “Carolina” – Listen

September 28, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Carolina is a track from the debut album, Last Man Standing, from growly voiced folk-rocker Brother Roy. It’s a superb funky groove with touches of Levon Helm and Dr John in the vocal whilst the keyboards […]

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Video: Hannah Aldridge “Lace”

September 28, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

The wonderful Hannah Aldridge filmed at Biddulph Up In Arms by Silk Mill Sessions.  She’s back in the UK in November with a full band, not to be missed.

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“The Three Aces” land in the UK for October dates

September 27, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

The Three Aces are US roots rockers Webb Wilder, Warner Hodges and Eric Ambel who land in the UK next week for dates around the country, before heading off to the Netherlands and other estranged EU friends. […]

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Karen and the Sorrows “The Narrow Place” (Independent 2017)

September 27, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0

Describing themselves as “Queer country trailblazers” tells the new listener everything they need to know about this interesting four-piece, except perhaps the most important thing which is what’s the music like beyond just ‘country’? The answer on […]

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Track premiere: Chris J Connolly “Fight at the End”

September 27, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

“Fight At The End” is the first single from Chris J Connolly’s  sophomore album “Moving Maps” which comes out next month. The track draws from elements of americana, folk, and pop, interlacing guitar textures, harmonies and […]

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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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