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Starry Skies “Small Wonders”

September 15, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Fourth album from Glasgow based folk/art chamber popsters. There’s lot to like about this latest offering from the well respected Starry Skies. Adept at mixing genres but rooted in singer songwriter sensibilities this album offers a […]

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Track Premiere: Nicholas Mudd “A Lover And A Drunkard”

September 15, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1

“I got a whisky in my hand I got you on my mind” sings Nicholas Mudd on this rootsy piece of Outlaw leaning country, adding “I’d love to sleep with you tonight and I’d love to […]

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Video: Charley Crockett “I’m Just a Clown”

September 15, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

There’s a genuinely timeless quality to Charley Crockett’s music and the video for ‘I’m Just a Clown’, filmed and edited by Bobby Cochran, reinforces that impression.  The song is full of rhythm and upbeat strumming, with […]

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Interview: Norrie McCulloch unveils Canyons & Highlands, a transatlantic Astral Folk collaboration

September 14, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Canyons & Highlands delves into vintage correspondence with a fine mix of classic folk and country sounds. ‘Canyons & Highlands’ is the fifth full-length album from Scottish singer/songwriter Norrie McCulloch. Unlike its predecessors, it’s not being […]

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September 14, 2022 Paul Kerr 1

There’s always been a Christian thread running through country music, be it simple devotion and a belief in a better world awaiting us after death or, and much more interesting, a fire and brimstone approach with […]

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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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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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