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Ana Egge announces UK dates – October

September 10, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Ana Egge returns to the UK next month for a run of dates to support ‘White Tiger’, her recently released tenth album which we were glowing about a few months back. Egge grew up with parents who […]

Album Reviews

JP Harris “Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing” (Free Dirt Records 2018)

September 10, 2018 Rich Evans 0

For this, his third full-length album, JP Harris has enlisted the production skills of Morgan Jahnig (Old Crow Medicine Show) to help capture some of his life stories. JP’s had a rootless existence, with a background […]

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Ned Collette “Old Chestnut” (It Records, 2018)

September 10, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

On first listening to this album it sounded like a collection of songs where you wait a long time for something to happen and not a lot does. But this is an album that rewards repeated […]

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Steve Forbert has everything going on

September 10, 2018 Jonathan Aird 1

It’s true – Steve Forbert in his 40th year in music has just about everything going on, about to happen or coming up soon.   Let’s start with the new album. ‘The Magic Tree’ is out October […]

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Great Lake Swimmers “The Waves The Wake” (Nettwerk Records, 2018)

September 10, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Over their 15-year career, Canada’s Great Lake Swimmers have crafted to perfection their version of folk informed chamber songs led throughout by Tony Dekker. While their last release, ‘A Forest of Arms’ added a more muscular […]

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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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When AUK reviewed Paul Kelly’s recent retrospective collection, ‘Songs From The South’, we remarked on Kelly’s magpie like ability to gather up elements from power pop, folk, rock, bluegrass, soul and country over a prolific career […]

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Interview: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown

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“Yoooooooo!!! Yoooooooo!!!” I hear screamed. I don’t know where it came from, or from whom. To be honest I’m a little afraid to ask. Tyler’s in the room. Tyler’s out the room. I don’t know what’s going […]

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The Wallflowers “Who’s That Man Walking ‘Round My Garden” – Listen

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The Wallflowers will release their first new album in nearly a decade ‘Exit Wounds’ next Friday (July 9th) via New West Records, which thankfully finds the band’s signature sound intact. KCRW has stated that “Exit Wounds […]

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