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Sara Rachele “Goodbye, Goodbye” – Listen

May 16, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Sara Rachele’s new album ‘Scorpio Moon‘ is out at the end of May.  Unusually it was recorded straight to tape. Even more unusually it features Binky Griptite and other members of The Dap-Kings (who you’ll recall […]
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True Strays “Homeward Bound” EP (Fieldview Records, 2019)

May 16, 2019 Mike Elliott 0
There’s no doubt True Strays can rock out.  The drums pound.  The cymbals crash.  The guitars crunch and slide and the bass bellows below it all.  Their latest EP, ‘Homeward Bound’ kicks off with the hard […]
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Video: Deep Dark River “Starfire”

May 16, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
The first single from their new album “King Of The Forest”, out on June 21st, is this wonderfully mournful song from Canadian outfit Deep Dark River.  Very good indeed.
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Steve Forbert plays 2 UK dates in June

May 15, 2019 Mark Whitfield 1
Some of us are Steve Forbert fans round these parts – we recently ran one of our AmericanA to Zs on him and awarded his most recent record an 8 out of 10 of which we […]
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A.A. Bondy “Enderness” (Fat Possum, 2019)

May 15, 2019 Ben Roberts 0
A.A.Bondy is an Alt-Folk songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. Bondy was originally the lead singer and guitarist in rock band Verbena, before making the jump to being a solo artist in 2003. ‘Enderness’ is Bondy’s 4th offering, […]

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