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Andy Brasher “Myna Bird” (Independent, 2020)

April 20, 2020 Linda Jameson 0

Andy Brasher brings country-soaked solo-album ‘Myna Bird’ to us from Kentucky via Nashville. It was produced by Harry Lee Smith (Restless Heart, Angeleena Presley, Martina McBride) and multi-Grammy award winner Ross Hogarth (Keb’ Mo’, Shawn Colvin, […]

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New Frank Turner live album lands on Friday

April 20, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls have announced the release of a new digital album ‘Live In Newcastle’ – Due out on April 24 via Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor, the album was recorded during Turner & The Sleeping […]

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Dean Owens “The Man From Leith: The Best Of Dean Owens” (Eel Pie Records, 2020)

April 20, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

Dean Owens is a story-teller, in musical form and from a grand Celtic tradition (a ‘blether’ perhaps?). The songs on his ‘Best Of’ collection ‘The Man from Leith’ give ample testament to this fact. Rather than […]

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Bob Dylan reveals all at last

April 20, 2020 Jonathan Aird 13

Over sixty years Dylan has retained an air of being an enigma, his songs, indeed his whole life, seen by so many as puzzles to be unravelled. This writer has long cleaved to the heretical notion […]

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Video: William Prince “That’s All I’ll Ever Become”

April 20, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

We start this week with the latest video from William Prince, who won a Juno Award for his debut album in 2018.  ‘That’s All I’ll Ever Become’ is taken from the critically acclaimed ‘Reliever’, one of […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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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Video: The Flying Burrito Brothers “Hot Burrito #1”

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It’s retro Friday and here is Americana royalty, The Flying Burrito Brothers.  This is, of course, from the classic debut album, ‘The Gilded Palace of Sin’.  Though not a commercial success at the time, it was […]

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The Invisible World suggests something hidden away, undiscovered, something mysterious – it’s a promise not borne out by the music on this second EP from the Kansas City band. It’s all surface, standard rock tropes, nothing […]

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