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Glorietta “Losers Lament” – Listen

September 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Glorietta is a coming together of a group of friends – Noah Gundersen,  Kelsey Wilson(Wild Child),  David Ramirez, Grammy award winner  Adrian Quesada (Brownout, Black Pumas),  Jason Robert Blum and Matthew Logan Vasquez.  Over the course of nine-day recording session in a […]

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Josh Taerk “Beautiful Tragedy” (Misty Creek Records, 2018)

September 3, 2018 Peter Churchill 0

Canadian singer-songwriter Josh Taerk, pronounced ‘Turk,’ has, in his relatively short career, garnered praise along the way from some high-profile names such as John Oates (Hall & Oates) and Max Weinberg (E Street Band), along with […]

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Robby Hecht & Caroline Spence, The Harrow, High Wycombe, 26th August 2018

September 3, 2018 David Fox 0

It is a healthy sign for the Americana scene in the UK when a smallish pub in the countryside outside High Wycombe attracts 50 people to see an hour and a half of charming live music. […]

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Woody Woodworth “Virginia” (Independent, 2018)

September 3, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Listening to the new album from Woody Woodworth and his band The Piners from Richmond, Virginia, is a deeply joyous experience and marks the emergence of a singer-songwriter who should prove to be a major and […]

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Video: Dean Wareham & Cheval Sombre “Wayfaring Stranger”

September 3, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

From their eponymous album, out on October 26th, comes this great cinematic and soaring  treatment of a classic song.  Great video too.

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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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Kurt Vile “Bottle It In” (Matador, 2018)

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I wrote five separate reviews for this, changing every time I listened to it, liking the tracks that are likeable more with every listen. But, you know, four songs make up 37 minutes of it, so […]

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Serious Sam Barrett “A Drop Of Morning Dew; Live At Bacca Pipes Folk Club”

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Double-live album from Yorkshire troubadour acts as an excellent summation of his career to date. A folk club has existed in the Yorkshire town of Keighley since the 60’s, adopting the name Bacca Pipes during the […]

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