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Video: J R Harbidge “Turn The Screw”

July 31, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

The first single from UK man J R Harbidge, from his album First Ray Of Light, out on October 5th, is really rather good, can’t wait to hear the full album.

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Jim Lauderdale “Time Flies” (Yep Roc, 2018)

July 30, 2018 Mike Elliott 0

After seeing him host and judge the Americana and the Independent Music Awards respectively, be an Honorary Chairperson for the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest each April at MerleFest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, co-hosting – along with […]

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David Crosby joins Isbell on stage at Newport – Watch

July 30, 2018 Mark Whitfield 1

RS Country reported over the weekend that David Crosby made a surprise appearance during Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s headlining set at the Newport Folk Festival on Friday to perform two Crosby, Stills & Nash classic songs. They report that […]

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Besides Daniel “If You Ask Me To” – Listen

July 30, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Danny Brewer, the mastermind behind Besides Daniel, pulls from his own experiences and life lessons to craft his songs. His new record, “T E E M I N G” (with the letters spaced out) is set for […]

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Jimmy LaFave “Peacetown” (Music Road Records, 2018)

July 30, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

This album arrives under the banner ‘Austin Legend, The Late Jimmy LaFave..’ and as such presents a reviewer with a potentially thorny problem. What if it’s no good? Is there anything to be gained from constructive […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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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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As we reach the final two in our list there was never any doubt that Wilco’s masterpiece was going to feature heavily. Indeed it appeared in many our writers individual Top 10’s. Ljubinko Zivkovic, making it […]

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Set for release on the 28th of March, “Mirabilia Mundi” is the latest album from Songdog, Welsh songwriter Lyndon Morgans’s main project for the past 25 years. Throughout the record’s 10 songs, Morgan continues his exploration […]

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For our second look at the world of Bluegrass we are stretching the definition a little, with a couple of albums that sit as close to contemporary country as to traditional Bluegrass. The first album however […]

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