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Ryan Adams releases new song “Doomsday” – Listen

January 19, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

The new album from Mr Adams is not long off now – Pitchfork reports: “On February 17, Ryan Adams will release a new album called Prisoner on Pax Am/Blue Note. Today, he’s shared the third offering from […]

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More Townes Van Zandt reissues due next month

January 19, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

January 1st 2017 marked the twentieth anniversary of the death of the Texan troubadour Townes Van Zandt, and the ongoing Charly Records reissue campaign of his catalogue continues with the release of two more of his albums on […]

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Aimee Mann to release first album in 5 Years – Listen

January 18, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Ace news from Spin who report: “It’s hard to believe five years have gone by since Aimee Mann’s last studio album, Charmer. That’s half a decade and yet it feels like only a couple of years […]

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Nadia Reid releases new single, tour dates – Listen

January 17, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

“For a new artist, her confident grace is all the more remarkable” – so says Pitchfork about New Zealand songwriter Nadia Reid who releases her second album Preservation in March.  “I remember recording the tracks, it […]

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Sturgill Simpson plays SNL – Watch

January 16, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

News from Rolling Stone Country this morning (We guess the President Elect wasn’t watching – no tweets about Sturgill anyway).  They report: “Sturgill Simpson rang in Saturday Night Live’s first episode of 2017 with high-energy, stage-shaking […]

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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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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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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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In the  (highly recommended) film ‘Still Crazy’, as plans forged by the 1970s British psychedelic rock group Strange Fruit for a comeback tour run headfirst into a morass of cliched band problems like  XXXL egos,  deep-rooted […]

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Another one bites the dust… Cambridge Folk Festival postponed for a year

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The Cambridge Folk Festival has announced the cancellation of this year’s festival with a headline statement stating that the festival would return in 2026. Simply stating “ the four-day folk and roots music festival hosted annually on […]

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Robert Jon and the Wreck “Last Light on The Highway” (Independent, 2020)

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Album opener ‘Oh Miss Carolina’ sets out Robert Jon Burrison’s manifesto. A Rolling Stones guitar riff to kick it off, a bit of Grateful Dead piano, a Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar solo and southern soul harmonies. Robert […]

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