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Video: The Redlands Palomino Company “Mansion On The Hill”

April 6, 2018 Jeremy Searle 1

As it’s the excellent Ramblin Roots Revue this weekend in High Wycombe this week’s retro slot features this great Springsteen cover from the Redlands Palomino Company, who’ll be on stage there later today.  Have a good […]

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Video premiere: Jon Patrick Walker & Hope Davis “Your Open Hand”

April 5, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

JP Walker is a talented man. His “day job” if you like is being a well-regarded actor who’s currently playing King George in the touring company of a little-known musical called ‘Hamilton’. His wife, Hope Davis, is the lead […]

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Mickelson “No Such Luck” – Listen

April 5, 2018 Jonathan Aird 2

Scott Mickelson has paid some dues – his band Fat Opie were heralded as folk-rock-punks,  they played CBGB’s, the Bitter End, and Madame Wong’s West in LA.  They had the same management company as Neil Young […]

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Steve Shiffman & The Land of No “Double Life” (Later/Clearly Records 2018)

April 5, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

One thing you can immediately say about Steve Shiffman & The Land of No is that this is a band that really likes to mix things up! Fronted by Canadian Shiffman the band hails from New […]

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Dylan turns classic into gay wedding anthem – Listen

April 5, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

NME is reporting that Bob Dylan has contributed a track to a new compilation that turns well know songs into “same-sex wedding anthems”. Mick Huckabee will not be amused. They report: “‘Universal Love’ will be released on Friday (April 6) […]

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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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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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Video Premiere: The Chris Cleverly Trio “I Wish I Was a Mole In The Ground”

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An excellent live cut from Chris Cleverly’s acclaimed debut album Apparitions, with Kathy Pilkinton ((Said the Maiden) and Kim Lowings adding vocals.

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