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Video: Dawn Landes “Travelling”

June 20, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is the new single from Dawn Landes, from her album Meet Me At The River, out on August 10th.  It’s three and half minutes of melodic contemporary country and is rather good.

Album Reviews

Laura Veirs “The Lookout” (Bella Union, 2018)

June 19, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

After the profile raising ‘Case/Lang/Veirs‘ album and tour of a couple of year’s back, ‘The Lookout‘ see’s Laura Veirs return to solo work, albeit solo accompanied by a number of Americana celebrity collaborators. It’s also, on […]

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Sami Simon “Carry You With Me” – Listen

June 19, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Sami Simon wrote this song whilst he was travelling through Scandinavia and knew, or came to know, that at some-point he would have to leave it’s shining beauty behind him.  At least he wasn’t losing in […]

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New Ryan Adams stuff on the way, possibly lots of it

June 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

An interesting story up on Consequence of Sound this morning where they mull over the various Ryan Adams going on at the moment. As they note,  “Ryan Adams dropped two new songs over the last few weeks, […]

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Anne Elise Hastings and Her Revolving Cast of Characters “Anne Elise Hastings and Her Revolving Cast of Characters” (Independent, 2018)

June 19, 2018 Mark Nenadic 0

New Orleans probably isn’t the first place you’d turn to when looking for contemporary folky Americana. However, if you can marry the jazz and blues sounds of The Big Easy with a foundation of folk and […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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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New musical influences for renowned Dublin-based Irish/Americana band. George Orwell’s quote “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”, is sadly, as […]

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Opening your first album, first track with the classic one beat drum thump straight into a fast guitar lick may be generic, but it’s a surefire announcement of arrival and intent, and done as well as […]

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