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Shuffle: The advantages of taking it slowly

April 8, 2021 David Cowling 0
Whilst walking one morning this week ‘Pea’ by Codeine came on and it got me thinking about the whole slowcore movement and set me on a task to rediscover any examples in Americana. Outside of Americana, […]
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Isbell and Simpson join cast of new Scorsese movie

April 8, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson have joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ according to the website Osage News. The movie, an Apple Original Film, is an adaptation of David […]
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Israel Nash “Topaz”

April 8, 2021 Diccon Johnston 0
The modern, vital heart of country soul beats right here. ‘Topaz’ is the seventh album by Israel Nash and it firmly benchmarks a significant step in his musical evolution. It has lost none of the expansive […]
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Ricky Stein “The Great Empty” – Listen

April 8, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
We’re not out of the woods completely, but there are some promising signs coming with respect to the current pandemic.  Ricky Stein’s been thinking about the future – on what changes, if any, there will be […]
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Video Premiere: Cole Scheifele “Back Then”

April 8, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Following on from the folk-rock of previous single ‘All the While’, we are delighted to premiere Cole Scheifele’s latest video, ‘Back Then’.  This time around, Scheifele’s approach offers a hushed intimacy and the spare arrangement draws […]

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Kris Drever “Doing This For Love” – anything, anything

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Video Premiere: Erik Stucky “Bag of Bones”

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Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”

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Kris Drever “Doing This For Love” – anything, anything

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Kris Drever – known for both his solo work and as part of Lau – returns with his first solo record in six years, and this is the title track from it.  It’s a song about […]
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Video Premiere: Erik Stucky “Bag of Bones”

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The new single from Nashville-based Coloradan Erik Stucky is a compelling song, driven forward by Justin Vorp’s lightly insistent percussion and Steven Schumann’s pulsing bass. Full of unresolved tension, Bag of Bones hooks us in with […]
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Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop outfit who have announced details of their new album Punching The Clown which […]

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Lucero “When You Found Me”

March 30, 2021 0
Honest and original Americana from Lucero. Simply a must listen and already a top 10 contender for 2021. Not a great deal of good has come out of the last 12 months, life has slowed down […]
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