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Track Premiere : Joanie & Matt “The One Above”

June 5, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

New York City based folk-duo Joanie & Matt are Joanie Leeds and Matthew Check, and they have a new album out on July 19th called ‘Sterling‘.    On it Joanie & Matt have crafted songs for […]

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Union Duke “Golden Days” (Independent, 2019)

June 5, 2019 Alan Fitter 0

Union Duke are self-styled “folk quintet” from Toronto made up of Ethan Smith, Jim McDonald, Matt Warry-Smith, Will Staunton and Rob McLaren, five long-time friends who have in their third album ‘Golden Days’, made a very friendly […]

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Video: Have Gun, Will Travel “Against The Grain”

June 5, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

From their latest album “Strange Chemistry”, their first for four years, out on July 12th, this is Florida’s Have Gun, Will Travel and a fine jangly piece of upbeat rock.  Great video too.

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W.C. Beck “First Flight” (Independent, 2019)

June 4, 2019 Tim Martin 0

W.C. Beck describes himself as “an itinerant singer/songwriter from Kansas”. After some years in Portland, he is now based in New York. Having recorded as Chris Beck in the past, ‘First Flight’ is his ninth album, […]

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The High Divers “Ride With You” (Independent, 2019)

June 4, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

There will always be a demand for top class Americana rock’n’roll (and if that’s not a thing it should be), and South Carolina’s High Divers can fill that need nicely. They’re already two albums into their […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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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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The beautifully pure voice of Canadian singer-songwriter Jessica Rhaye is displayed to excellent effect here on the title track from her just-released new album.

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