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Video Premiere: Rosenblume “Knight in Shining Armour”

July 20, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the video premiere of ‘Knight in Shining Armour’ from Liverpool’s Roseblume.  It’s an earnest song of unrequited love, disarming in its heartfelt and direct sincerity.  There’s a restless rhythm and a foot-tapping beat, creating […]

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Nick County “A Colorful Corner of Northeastern Pennsylvania”

July 19, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Perceptive writing lays bare emotional turmoil. For his third release Nick County has added a sprawl of indie, pop, folk to the country and rock of his previous records. At first, these various currents are quite […]

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The Hiding Magpies “Searching For Gold”

July 19, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

The Hiding Magpies are on their way to making a great English-rooted Americana album. Magpies are considered to be among more intelligent creatures, according to practically all descriptions of this talking bird. They say they are […]

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Video: Trapper Schoepp “Little Drop of Medicine”

July 19, 2021 Cam Fraser 0

Milwaukee-based Trapper Schoepp, has an excellent new video for ‘Little Drop of Medicine‘, the latest single from his most recent album, ‘May Day‘. As likely to be found behind a gently fingerpicked acoustic or showing off his […]

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VERSIONS: “Mattie Groves (Child ballad number 81)” and the folk process

July 19, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

The folk process they call it – the movement of a song from one place to another, with variations occurring in the tune and the words. At the extreme, a song can cross an ocean, spend […]

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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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This is the new single, released today, from LA band Lasers Lasers Birmingham, taken from their new album “Warning”, out on July 26th.  It’s a classic country sound but with a bit of a contemporary edge […]

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