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Tift Merritt “Last Day I Knew What To Do”
We have a fine treat for you, dear readers, on this Monday morning – we’re sure you know that “Tambourine” is getting a reissue, but what you may not be aware of is that there are […]
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Anna Tivel “White Goose” – lost, lost, never to return
‘White Goose‘ is a meditation on things that are gone and is shot through with regret. Mistakes and regrets and not only for the tangible things “the ghost of everything we loved and everything we didn’t […]
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Freightliner “Up All Night” – we can certainly relate
There’s certainly something in the lyrics of the new single from Canadian band Freightliner that rings painfully true here at Americana UK Towers: “I’m up all night playing these songs/…/ ’til the dawn then I’m back […]
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Track Premiere: Stephen Jacques “Fragrant Flowers”
‘Fragrant Flowers‘ is the opening cut of Stephen Jacques’ latest album “Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers”, which is a concept album about covering the 19th-century Western migration, frontier wagon train plight, gunfights, saloons, Native American reality, miscreants, […]
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Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly “Bad Girls” – never sad girls
Today’s song finds two titans of Outlaw country turning Wham on their heads and instead of boasting about their own bad boy status find that they are hankering after some of the girls (we’re thinking they […]