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Nathaniel Rateliff “And It’s Still Alright” (Stax, 2020)

February 27, 2020 Steven Rafferty 0
It was no secret that the new album from Nathaniel Rateliff would take on weightier subjects than what you’ll find in his work with the Night Sweats. Rateliff was open about the central role that dealing […]
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Avi Kaplan “It Knows Me” – Listen

February 27, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
On ‘It Knows Me‘ Avi Kaplan brings a dark and deep baritone to the wilderness folk dominated by drums and echoes – it has a high mountains at night fall feel to it.  Wide-open spaces, no-one […]
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Chuck Prophet announces new album

February 27, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Guitar god Chuck Prophet has some good news for us all – May 15th will see his latest album ‘The Land that Time Forgot‘ carried shoulder high into the streets by Yep Roc.  We don’t like […]
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Video: Pokey LaFarge “Fuck Me Up”

February 27, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
Pokey LaFarge dressed as the devil! Pokey LaFarge singing from his coffin at his own funeral!  The gloriously creative and cinematic new video from LaFarge is a great, colourful accompaniment to his sound, which manages to […]
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Forgotten Artists – Shelby Lynne

February 26, 2020 Rick Bayles 2
Shelby Lynne, or to give her the name she was christened with, Shelby Lynn Moorer is, as many will know, the (slightly) older sister of Allison Moorer. Yet while Allison seems to go from strength to […]

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Book Review: Paul Slade “Blood On The Leaves”

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A few years ago, at a local gig to see the Pennsylvania band The Stray Birds, the crowd was overall polite and receptive to the music; however, let us just say they needed to warm up. […]
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Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]
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