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Jackson Browne “Downhill From Everywhere”

July 20, 2021 Paul Kerr 3

Jackson Browne is, in turn, reflective and angry on his latest album. At the seasoned age of 72, Jackson Browne can be excused for only releasing an album every five or six years. In fact, it’s […]

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Video: Zach Kleisinger “Dance for a While”

July 20, 2021 Cam Fraser 0

Born and raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Zach Kleisinger cites Leonard Cohen, Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and Van Morrison as being his formative influences. However, it’s fellow Canadian, Leonard Cohen, who is most in evidence […]

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The Mountain Goats “Dark in Here”

July 20, 2021 Sean Hannam 0

John Darnielle’s indie-folkers get soulful in the Deep South for their twentieth studio album – dark, intimate, cinematic and seriously impressive. For a bunch of musicians working on their latest album just as COVID-19 took hold, […]

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Watch Margo Price cover the Beatles’ “Help”

July 20, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Margo Price recently recorded a cover version of the Beatles’ ‘Help’ taken from her new EP ‘Live From the Other Side’, and she’s now released a video of it including performances from  The Suffers’ Kam Franklin, […]

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Sam Teskey “Love” – It’s in the air

July 20, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

We were tempted to add “like Covid” but two days into the new regime of ensuring the hospitals are full within 2-4 weeks that just didn’t seem funny anymore.  Anyway, Sam Teskey has love on his […]

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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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