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Lucinda Williams “Lost Girl” – Listen
We don’t want to bring your mood down at all but if the new song from Lucinda Williams doesn’t make you feel just a little more desperate than you were five minutes before you first heard […]
Articles by Jonathan Aird
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The Third Mind “East/West” – Listen
As we have already established (see the many ‘What is this Americana….‘ articles) the genre that we call Americana is quite broad. Some songs feature twang and depressing songs about break-ups, and some songs have no […]
News
Chuck Prophet in pretentiousness accusation
Now normally we’d be the first leaping to Chuck Prophet’s defence from this terrible accusation that he is in some way pretentious. Trouble is we’re in a quandary since the accusation comes from well known Chuck […]
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Emily Soon “Love is the Loneliest Place” – Listen
Australian Emily Soon wrote ‘Love is the Loneliest Place‘ a few years ago in response to the emotional break-up of a couple she was friends with. It was a way, she says, “to comprehend the situation […]
Album Reviews
William Prince “Reliever” (Glassnote, 2020)
Following up his 2018 debut release with the Dave Cobb and Scott Nolan produced ‘Reliever‘, First Nations Canadian William Prince brings his not-so-secret weapon to bear on a set of songs that muse on the brevity […]