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Video Premiere: Butcher, Baglio & Estes “Long Player”

August 31, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Jon Butcher, Sal Baglio and Allen Estes are three talented musicians from New England who have just put together their debut LP as a trio.  We’re pleased to premiere ‘Long Player’, their second single release and […]

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The Other Side Of Me: Martin Johnson on the musical world opened up by Miles Davis’s “On The Corner”

August 30, 2022 Martin Johnson 2

If you were a young music fan in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s there was every possibility that you would have heard of a lot more music and artists than you had managed to actually […]

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Freedy Johnston “Back On The Road To You”

August 30, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0

Sunny summer sweetness, with just a touch of melancholy. Freedy Johnston has a 30 year music career behind him, during which time he has garnered praise and love from critics and musical peers. He nonetheless remains […]

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Live Review: The Blue Highways + Rich Hardcastle and Evie Rapson, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey – 19th August 2022

August 30, 2022 Graeme Tait 0

The half hour journey between my home town of Lincoln to the county’s premier Americana venue The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey, takes me through the arable countryside, well known for being the breadbasket of the […]

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Bill Scorzari “The Cross Winds Of Kansas”

August 30, 2022 Rick Thorn 0

Consistently interesting, sometimes dark but always uplifting. Bill Scorzari is a New York singer, songwriter and mutli instrumentalist, and ‘The Cross Winds Of Kansas’ is his fourth independently released album. Scorzari became a full-time musician via […]

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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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‘Lonesome Leaving Train‘ is the new single from Amanda Cook’s album ‘Narrowing the Gap‘, her third for Mountain Fever Records which is released on March 26th.  In good traditional bluegrass fashion it sounds as up-tempo as […]

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Alexa Rose “Like A Child” – Listen

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Occasionally it gets mentioned that there’s not as much Twang as there could be, and we guess that there’s some truth in that.  Well, True Believers, today you get your twang, courtesy of Alexa Rose, who […]

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