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Video Premiere: Speedbuggy USA “Honky Tonk Singer”

May 3, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is taken from Speedbuggy USA’s new album Kick Out the Twang, due out on 2 July and coinciding with a UK tour (see below). A great song that’s dark, reflective and laced with steel guitar […]

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Carter Sampson to tour the UK with two album releases

May 2, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Carter Sampson burst onto the European Americana scene in 2016 with the release of her album ‘Wilder Side.’ It created such a stir here and in Europe that as a result, in the first year after […]

Album Reviews

The Nautical Theme “Float” (Independent, 2018)

May 2, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

With a band named ‘The Nautical Theme’ comprising a duo of piano and vocals (Tesia Mallory) and guitar and vocals (Matt Shetler) this might make the casual browser think they were about to stroll into folk […]

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Mandolin Jack “Phoenix In The Ashes” (Independent, 2018)

May 2, 2018 Maurice Hope 0

Prior to Mandolin Jack, Chris Tulloch had been making music and playing in bands ever since the early 1970s. He grew up in the sixties and he has absorbed a feast of varied tones that range […]

Tracks

One Grass Two Grass “Praise You” – Listen

May 2, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

On their second album ‘Horizon’, San Francisco Bay bluegrass band One Grass Two Grass have a hot mix of originals and a single cover which is this re-imagining of Fatboy Slim’s re-imagining of  Camille Yarbrough’s ‘Take Yo’ […]

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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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Without a doubt one of the most exciting bands to emerge in 2019 – we loved the album, we loved them live.  If you need the reminder, Bonny Light Horseman are Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson and […]

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