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Classic Neal Casal to be released on vinyl next month

September 24, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

Neal Casal’s debut record, ‘Fade Away Diamond Time’, was released in 1995 to much critical acclaim. Produced by Jim Scott (Wilco, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash) and recorded with a stellar cast of players in a sprawling […]

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Track Premiere: Graber Gryass “Wind That Shakes The Cotton”

September 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Graber Gryass is the bluegrass band led by Michael Graber who has sailed a number of musical seas but has had bluegrass in him for a lot of years.  He was in heavy metal and punk […]

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Video: Ferris & Sylvester “Knock You Down”

September 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

The nostalgic home-video style footage used for ‘Knock You Down’ is perfect for a song that wishes for the simplicity of childhood and innocent memories.  It also gives us the chance to Ferris & Sylvester at […]

Tracks

Bruce Springsteen “New York City Serenade” – Listen

September 23, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1

This, as you’ll have noticed, is not a new song.  It is though that rare thing, something we can all agree on as a perfect masterpiece, perhaps the very pinnacle of the output by the man […]

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Interview: Ryan Law talks about his new release and The Shelter

September 23, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 0

Ryan Law has dabbled in music for the last 20 years. Here he talks to Americana’s Gordon Sharpe about the recording of his new album ‘Just A Stranger’ with his band, The Shelter, and working with […]

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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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Victor Camozzi has a compelling, warbling, Texas drawl that helps frame his lyrics with a tasteful sincerity.  On his fourth album, ‘Black Dog’, Camozzi sings about all the things you would expect a bearded, long-haired cowboy […]

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