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“Outlaw Music Festival Tour” announced with the best line-up ever

April 12, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Imagine if you will your dream line-up for a single night out and it probably doesn’t get much better than this. Oh for Star Trek style transporters.  RS Country reports: “Willie Nelson is assembling a genre-defying […]

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Joe Innes & The Cavalcade: “Moscow” – Listen

April 12, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

The new single from Joe Innes and the Cavalcade comes from their upcoming album ‘Foreign Domestic Policy’, and has been described as “post-Brexit indie.” It is a document of Joe’s life as it currently is, on both […]

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New Ani Di Franco album due out June, UK dates

April 11, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Singer-songwriter-activist Ani DiFranco has announced her twentieth studio album “Binary” which is set to hit stores and the interweb on June 9th. The iconic singer/songwriter/ activist/poet/DIY trendsetter returns to territory that brought her to the world’s […]

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RS Country streams entire Chris Shiflett album ahead of release

April 11, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

This is becoming a bit of a habit but a welcome one! RS Country reports: “A case could easily be made that Chris Shiflett is the busiest (and most hyphenated) man in rock & roll. However, […]

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Stream new Sam Outlaw album ahead of its release – Listen

April 10, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s not out until this Friday but the wonderful NPR Music have made Sam Outlaw’s new album available in its entirety to stream now. Stop what you’re doing for 42 minutes and click play. (Actually you can […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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The Oppenheimer of bluegrass mandolin. On the 26th of April, 2024, the bluegrass world lost one of its true innovators when Frank Wakefield died at his home in Sarasota Springs, NY. Bill Monroe may be the […]

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Apple & Setser “I’ll Love Nobody But You” – A One Gal Guy

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You may search for hidden meanings in Apple & Setser’s ‘I’ll Love Nobody But You‘, but gosh darn it all you’re going to find is sweet, sweet bluegrass and a song that says exactly what it […]

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Video: Ringo Starr “Look Up”

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It seems that it takes a lad from Liverpool to remind us what real country music should be like.  Ringo Starr’s new album, “Look Up”, is a triumph.  Produced and co-written by the legendary T Bone […]

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