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Forgotten Artists – Cowboy

August 24, 2020 Rick Bayles 2

It’s time for another article in our FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series and, this time, Clint West is back to remind us about Southern Country Rockers, Cowboy.

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Sleepy Gaucho “Morning Light” (Hear Here Records, 2020)

August 24, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0

‘Morning Light’ is the second album by multi-instrumentalist Andy Goitia. This essentially appears to be a solo album giving Andy the space to explore sonic opportunities with the aid of friends, session musicians and most notably, […]

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Lisa Akuah “Bubbles” – Listen

August 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Not, thankfully, a song about isolation and the community bubbles people are advised to restrict their meeting of others to.  We don’t think we could have taken that.  No, Lisa Akuah’s soft sounding but rather biting […]

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Justin Townes Earle dies at 38

August 24, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

Some very sad news to wake up to on a Monday morning – Justin Townes Earle, americana singer-songwriter and son of Steve, has died at the age of 38. On a post on his Instagram page, […]

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Video: Juanita Stein “Snapshot”

August 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the title track from Juanita Stein’s new album due out on 2nd October.  ‘Snapshot’ is an excellent example of a home-made, lockdown video, created with just a green screen and an iPhone.  Stein says […]

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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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