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Video: Jennifer Castle “Texas”

May 1, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is rather good, enchanting in fact.  It’s the new single from Canbadian singer-songwriter Jennifer Castle’s third album Angels Of Death, due out on May 18th.

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The Sheepdogs change colours across the UK – June

April 30, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Down boy!  Quadruple Juno Award-winning Canadian quintet The Sheepdogs were described by Uncut as sounding like “Badfinger picking up The Flying Burrito Brothers’ bar tab” and they have today announced a string of UK shows throughout June and July, including […]

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Sunny Ozell “The Garden” – Listen

April 30, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Sunny Ozell was last in the UK to present Jason Isbell with a UK Americana Award for International Album of the Year.  She hails from Reno Nevada, which is a pretty sunny place, and hopefully she’ll be […]

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The Good Morning Nags “The Good Morning Nags EP” (Independent 2018)

April 30, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

A six piece “country folk” band from New York City, The Good Morning Nags have honed their skills over the past couple of years busking in the Big Apple with Central Park, Greenwich village and various […]

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Lucky Bones “Matchstick Men” (Lucky Bones Promotions, 2018)

April 30, 2018 Steven Howlett 0

It is puzzling why one band can ‘make it’ while others continually fly below the radar. And so it is with Lucky Bones. They are the kind of band that take to a festival stage late […]

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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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Vinyl reissue of classic, traditional English folk album from one of the genre’s most influential musicians. This is a vinyl reissue of Martin Carthy’s debut eponymous album. The reissue is one of British folk music label […]

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