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Drift Mouth “Little Patch of Sky” (Wild Frontier, 2018)

September 25, 2018 Mike Elliott 0

Drift Mouth’s singer/songwriter/ guitarist Lou Poster’s father was a West Virginia coal miner for 37 years.  When he retired around 2006, Poster presented him with a recording of covers and originals that celebrated a career that […]

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Rosanne Cash announces new album “She Remembers Everything” – Listen

September 25, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

We hope you haven’t ever crossed Rosanne Cash, knocked her wing mirror or something, because like an elephant she never forgets and in that form she’s announced the release of her first new album in nearly […]

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Track premiere: Pale Mara “Not Like I Used To”

September 25, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Pale Mara have a new album out in December and preceding that, a lovely new track from it, the couple describing themselves as “blending the beauty of musical tradition with a restless and adventurous spirit”. The […]

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Tom Baxter “The Other Side of Blue” (Independent, 2018)

September 25, 2018 Mark Nenadic 0

It’s a precariously thin line that the singer-songwriter has to tread. The stripped away, intimate, acoustic guitar (or piano) and voice combination is so omnipresent in folk cum Americana; there are precious few new tricks at […]

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Video: Murphykid “Wolf”

September 25, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is a wonderful video for the new single from the debut album Skeleton, out on October 12th, from Yorkshire man Murphykid. Originally recorded in 2004, the reel to reel tapes they were put down on […]

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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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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

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When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Video: John Prine “Knockin’ On Your Screen Door”

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Dan Auerbach, Elizabeth Cook, Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Amanda Shire and Sturgill Simpson, to name but six, all turn up on this great video accompanying the legendary John Prine’s latest single.  He’s in the UK at Glasgow, […]

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Seafoam Green have released a series of beautiful singles from their acclaimed new album, ‘Martin’s Garden’ and this dreamy song is, perhaps, the best yet.  ‘Maggie’ is slow, gentle ballad built around epic chords and shimmering […]

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