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Track Premiere: E. Z. Shakes “The Spirit”

September 17, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Zach Seibert formed E.Z. Shakes with Todd T. Hicks as an acoustic duo – Seibert on guitar and Hicks on banjo and pedal steel – in 2017 and things have moved pretty quickly since then, the […]

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Mary Chapin Carpenter “The Dirt And The Stars” (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers, 2020)

September 17, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

‘The Dirt And The Stars’  is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s first collection of new material since 2016’s ‘The Things That We Are Made Of.’ Her last record, ‘Sometimes Just The Sky’, which came out two years ago, […]

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to hold online festival featuring Emmylou and more

September 17, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

One of the few silver linings of the current situation is that you get to go to festivals you wouldn’t normally be able to attend, albeit virtually, and in that spirit San Fransisco’s Bay Area’s beloved […]

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Steve Earle to cover son Justin’s songs on new album

September 17, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Steve Earle has announced a new album of covers of songs written by his son, the late Justin Townes Earle who died last month at the age of 38. Steve Earle and the Dukes plan to […]

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Laura Fell “Bone Of Contention” – Listen

September 17, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Laura Fell has produced her debut alum ‘Safe from Me‘, from which ‘Bone of Contention‘ is taken whilst holding a day job as a psychotherapist.  The album is described as a search for answers from a […]

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