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Video: 16 Horsepower “Clogger”

June 1, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Something a bit fiery for this week’s retro slot.  David Eugene Edwards band 16 Horsepower and a furious version of Clogger from Secret South.  Be careful out there.

Album Reviews

Findlay Brown “Not Everything Beautiful is Good” (Nettwerk Records, 2018)

May 31, 2018 Jim Finnie 0

Ambient/Psychedelic Americana is a genre not populated by many artists, but Findlay Brown continues to cut a groove that is somewhat idiosyncratic and to back this up, he even manages to sing about lovers living in […]

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Brett Dennen “Already Gone” – Listen

May 31, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The lazy way to approach describing music is to say who else it sounds like.  So, let’s be lazy for once: Brett Dennen is the intersection between Justin Townes Earle and Lord Huron.  ‘Already Gone’ is […]

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Brent Cobb announces European dates

May 31, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Brent Cobb has announced a UK and European tour for September. The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter will play twelve dates around Europe, including five shows in the UK.  Commencing at Whelan’s in Dublin, Cobb will then play four […]

Album Reviews

Niall Thomas “Night Sky Blue” (Independent 2018)

May 31, 2018 Michael Farley 0

This is the second solo album from Dublin based singer-songwriter Niall Thomas which showcases ten self-penned thoughtful songs delivered in a mainly acoustic style. Thomas himself describes each song as forming a snapshot of time drawn […]

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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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I Write the Songs – Roger Cook

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Now, here’s one for all you quiz compilers out there – who was the first (and, so far, only) British songwriter to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame? Yes, it’s Roger Frederick Cook, […]

Album Reviews

Larkin Poe “Venom & Faith” (Tricki-Woo Records 2018)

December 17, 2018 0

‘Venom & Faith’ is the fourth album from Rebecca and Megan Lovell, aka Larkin Poe. Originating from Georgia, but Nashville based (can anyone actually imagine walking around Nashville and meeting someone not in a band), the […]

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Paper Wings “Listen To The World Spin”

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Perfection. That’s it. After a three year break from recording together, and on their third album, Emily Mann and Wila Frank, known together as Paper Wings, have placed an indelible mark on the modern folk old […]

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