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Brent Cobb “Providence Canyon” (Low Country Sound/Atlantic, 2018)

June 12, 2018 Mark Johnson 0

Touring his previous album, Brent Cobb rolled into Manchester to play the day after the Ariana Grande massacre. As effectively the next American up, his decision whether to play attracted a lot of attention Stateside, especially […]

Tracks

Josh King “Into The Blue” – Listen

June 12, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Josh King has all the roots-rocker chops you could wish for, on this song melodic guitar lines contend with swirling organ.  ‘Into the Blue‘ – the title track of King’s new album – comes from a […]

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New Isbell live album on the way

June 12, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Jason Isbell hits the UK next week for an appearance at the Black Deer Festival down in Kent and if you can’t make it there in person, the next best thing is listening from the comfort […]

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Video: Jason Charles Miller “In The Wasteland”

June 12, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

A post-apocalyptic Mad Max feel for this video that accompanies some serious and dirty rock’n’roll on the title track of Jason Charles Miller’s new album, out on July 15th.

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Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear “Everybody’s Got Problems” – Listen

June 11, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

As you’ll recall Alice Cooper addressed problems on ‘Elected’, noticing that “we have problems / We got problems right here in Central City / We have problems on the North, South, East and West / New […]

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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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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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Music for the heart and the head celebrates the challenges of being human. Imagine you’re in a watering hole somewhere, the English Midlands or the U.S. Midwest. The bar is in a strip mall, but perfectly […]

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Dar Williams “Hummingbird Highway”

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‘One of America’s very best songwriters’ (The New Yorker) continues to deliver, with a high-quality and varied collection of songs. When you think of really top class female singer-songwriters named Williams, the name that does not […]

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Southern Tenant Folk Union “Southern Tenant Folk Union (10th Anniversary Re-Issue)” (Johnny Rock, 2018)

February 16, 2018 1

If you haven’t heard of them before, Southern Tenant Folk Union have been around for a while, ten years to be precise, and to celebrate this achievement the Edinburgh based 6- piece have decided to reissue […]

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