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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.

July 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

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”

July 3, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

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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