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Jaspar Lepak “One Brave Life” – looking for life’s gifts
‘One Brave Life‘ is, if you like, a dream list for a perfect life – “we all one great love / we all one true home” sings Lepak to a jangling banjo accompaniment. But…but it’s not […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
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Violet Whimsey “They Say” – enough with the old folks blabbering on…
Violet Whimsey have a simple message – they don’t care what you think and they’re going to live their own life. Not in an Alice Cooper or Sex Pistols way (not even in a Toyah way), […]
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Rick Deitrick “Movin’ On” – Lost guitar magic, refound
Tompkins Square, the purveyor of “lost” albums as limited vinyl releases and Bandcamp (and elsewhere) digital releases have yet another beauty of a release in the form of Rick Deitrick’s ‘Coyote Canyon‘. This consists of seven […]
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Ellen Foley “Leave Him Janie” – storming little number
Ellen Foley has a new album, ‘Fighting Words‘ that has been out for a couple of weeks now, her first release in eight years. It’s certainly not what one might expect from the singer who was […]
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Track Premiere: Josh King “Turn Away”
North Carolina’s Josh King returns with a new single, ‘Turn Away‘ which is out today on Screwdriver Records. It’s his first new music since last year’s album ‘The Shed‘ (naturally a lockdown album!), ‘Turn Away’ begins […]