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Box of Moxie “Bounty From The Seas” – Listen

July 11, 2019 Jonathan Aird 1

Virginia based Box of Moxie released the single ‘Bounty from the Seas‘ as a taster for their new album ‘Salt Water Magic‘.  Over an orchestral arrangement singer-songwriter Stephen Jacques growls his contemplations of the once bounteous […]

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Video: Curtis Eller “A Poison Melody”

July 11, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Here’s a great video to accompany the equally great title track of Americana maverick Curtis Eller’s latest album, out now.  If you only know him as a somewhat mad banjo player you might be surprised as […]

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Songs for the apocalypse: The Avett Brothers “Mama, I Don’t Believe”

July 10, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

North Carolina’s Avett Brothers consisting of two actual brothers (Scott and Seth) along with fellow bandmates have been around for almost two decades now, and each album becomes more musically accomplished than the last. The San […]

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Mavis Staples, The Roundhouse, London, 4th July 2019

July 10, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Mavis Staples can rely on a warm welcome in London – her live album of this year was recorded at a pair of Union Chapel gigs in 2018 – something which she alluded to tonight saying […]

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Chloe Foy “Without You” – Listen

July 10, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Not, we should point out, the Badfinger song made famous by Harry Nilsson, but sitting somewhat in that same territory of relationship loss.  Here, though, over a gentle folky setting the mellifluous Chloe Foy is singing […]

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