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Various Artists “Restoration” (Universal Music Nashville, 2018)

July 3, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
Now this is a really interesting album. To give it its full title it is ‘Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin’ and it does exactly that. Sixteen different acts from a country […]
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Paul Brady and Andy Irvine to play seminal Andy Irvine/Paul Brady.

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The Barbican in London have announced a special performance in their Autumn schedules by Paul Brady and Andy Irvine of their groundbreaking album ‘Andy Irvine / Paul Brady’.  Released after the duo formed in the wake […]
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Arms Akimbo “Devil” – Listen

July 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
This is not the religious inspired song you might imagine, it’s more a critique by Arms Akimbo of Los Angeles – their love/hate with that fine/awful city and how they don’t much appreciate/like at all the […]
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Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes + The Weeping Willows, MacSorleys, Glasgow, 30th June 2018

July 3, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
A crowded pub in Glasgow on a swelteringly hot Saturday night proved to be no challenge to Australia’s Lachlan Bryan  who, with a four piece version of The Wildes behind him, performed a set of songs […]
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Video: Passenger “Runaway”

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This is the title track from Passenger’s new album, due out on August 31st.  It’s very Americana and very good.  We like it.

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The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]
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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]

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