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Ardentjohn “Malin Head” (Adulation, 2019)

July 18, 2019 Russell Murphy 0
The album’s title is taken from the name of the most northerly tip of the island of Ireland, Donegal to be precise, the last headland before Greenland, where folks will tell you that more ocean liners […]
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Maverick Festival – Day One, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk, 5th July 2019

July 18, 2019 David Chalfen 2
Now in its 12th year, Maverick Festival continues to be one of the premier festivals of the summer for lovers of Americana and roots music, the culmination of founder and director Paul Spencer’s working year. Festival […]
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Alice Howe “Visions” (Independent, 2019)

July 18, 2019 Louie Joe 0
Boston, MA native Alice Howe releases her first full-length album and there’s no doubt it will propel her right onto roots music lovers’ radars. Hard driving blues, modern folk or country ballads, Howe does it all […]
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Video: Shawn Colvin “Ricochet In Time (30th Anniversary Acoustic Edition)”

July 18, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
Shawn Colvin’s  Grammy-winning classic album ‘Steady On’ has it’s 30th birthday this year and to celebrate there’s an acoustic reissue released on September 13th.  This of course is taken from it and the video has footage […]
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Silver Lake 66 “Ragged Heart” – Listen

July 18, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Maria Francis and Jeff Overbo, for Silver Lake 66 is them, offer a slice of clear as crystal non-ironic classic pedal steel drenched country  on ‘Ragged Heart‘.  It’s the kind of song that a cheerfully inclined […]

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