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Track Premiere: Carrington MacDuffie “I’m The One”

July 25, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Carrington MacDuffie has a trio of EPs and an album to her name, and this acoustic version of ‘I’m the One‘ is her latest single which we’re mighty happy to be premiering today.  It’s a light […]

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Video: Route 33 featuring Sarah McLeod “Hands Of Time”

July 25, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Some more Australian country today with the excellent new single from Route 33, taken from their album “Coro Drive”.  The video also features Aussie rocker Sarah McLeod.  It’s a fine song about the aftermath and impact […]

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Old Crow Medicine Show to release live album

July 24, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Old Crow Medicine Show are one of those bands who’ve played the Ryman auditorium so often these days that it might as well be renamed after them, but in the meantime the Grammy-winning roots band will […]

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Harrison Whitford “Afraid Of Everything” (Screwdriver Records, 2019)

July 24, 2019 Harold Hogan 0

The opening track of singer-songwriter Harrison Whitford’s latest album starts off with some gentle strumming and tender, vulnerable vocal work. So far so average. Then the drums kick in, along with backing vocals, the fuzzy electric, […]

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Rock Island Line 65th Anniversary, Cadogan Hall, London, 13th July 2019

July 24, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s no real reason why in the mid-1950s a form of music already more or less forgotten in its homeland should have got a revival in the UK. Yet the short-lived Skiffle craze – a wild […]

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