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About Ed Donnelly
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy. He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
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Dead Root Revival
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Dead Root Revival “Maybe Baby” Canadian alt. country group release their debut album

May 1, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Dead Root Revival play driving Alt. Country on their single ‘Maybe Baby’.  Channelling some grungy guitar tones that would be at home on any early Drive-By Truckers or Uncle Tupelo album, the band delivers a solid […]

The Gravel-Aires
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The Gravel-Aires “If the Devil Don’t Want Her” – With a Stonesy swagger, Vancouver roots rockers The Gravel-Aires deliver their new single

April 29, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

With a Stonesy swagger, Vancouver roots rockers The Gravel-Aires deliver their new single, ‘If the Devil Don’t Want Her’.  Songwriters Mark Branscombe and Michael Mahoney have released their third album, ‘Westerly’, a follow-up to 2021’s ‘Headlights […]

Creature Comfort
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Creature Comfort “If Not For You” – reimagining a Dylan/Harrison classic

April 23, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Creature Comfort reimagines a Dylan/Harrison classic with their take on ‘If Not For You’.   The Nashville based quintet released this track as their first new single since 2021. “I was washing clothes one day thinking about […]

Isobel Campbell
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Isobel Campbell “Everything Falls Apart” – Taking down the patriarchy

April 19, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Isobel Campbell takes on the patriarchy on her latest single ‘Everything Falls Apart’.  This is the second single from her forthcoming album ‘Bow to Love’ due 17th May on Cooking Vinyl Records. “My elegy to the […]

Call Me Spinster
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Video: Call Me Spinster “Mule”

April 19, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Call Me Spinster tug at the heartstrings with their new single ‘Mule’.   The video features a young girl and her father on a camping trip.  Beautiful cinematography by director Daniel Andrade captures the natural beauty of […]

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  • It’s the 2025 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year
  • Wood Festival announces first tranche of acts for next year
  • Mia Kelly “Blind Horse” – hey, aren’t you the lucky one?
  • Video Premiere: Juana Everett “Bring Me Back”
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  • Andrea Hubert: Amazing voice, amazing lyrics. I saw her at the Union in Lewes and her voice is incredibly pure.
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  • Paula Bacon: Haunting gritty, beautiful, a true story teller with a timeless folk sound. A song to listen to again and again…

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Interview: David Grisman on the groundbreaking Garcia/Grisman album and more

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The “Garcia/Grisman” album was recorded in 1991, and chances are you never heard these two master musicians sound as good as they did on this record. Jerry Garcia’s tasteful picking on this album is inspired and […]

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Interview: Dan Bern has still got his fastball, and a change-up

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In the smart and lively songs of Dan Bern, nuances are at work like honeybees in a hive. A busy swarm of subtleties generates a nucleus of narrative honeycomb that has more layers than an archaeologist’s […]

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Behind the Songs: Dillon Warnek “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep”

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Dillon Warnek’s “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep” is a sharp and dizzying collection of songs about everything and anything. “Rolling Stone” raved that his debut album “Now That It’s All Over”, was full of “wry character […]

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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