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Becky Kapell “Idle Down” – Put that pedal to the metal!
Becky Kapell is torn between two desires – the first is to let rip and barrel down the highway, the second is to not make this journey too short, ‘cos her baby’s on board and she […]
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Album Reviews
Christy Moore “Flying Into Mystery”
Irish Troubadour’s latest album despairs for and laughs at a world that isn’t learning. A founding member of the legendary Planxty and a solo artist for over fifty years – his first release ‘Paddy on the […]
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Brian Laidlaw & The Family Trade “Pure Sorrow” – Flee from all these entrapments
The Family Trade is a folk ensemble led by poet-songwriter Brian Laidlaw and rural artist and arts-advocate Ashley Hanson. Raised in rural Minnesota, Ashley is a current Obama Foundation Fellow whose work as a theater-maker and […]
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Martin Ruby “Sisyphus” – rolling away that stone…
Attentive reader that you are, and we do appreciate how you lap up every word we collectively craft, you’ll recall that when we can we have a mellow out afternoon mid-week session when we reconnect with […]
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Scott Zosel “Emily” – marking our place with bookmarkers
True, it sounds like a love song but ‘Emily‘ is actually inspired by Emily Dickenson, so it is perhaps more a love of words. Scott Zosel told us this about the song: “I have been obsessed […]