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Video: Co-Pilgrim “Wave in the Siddy”

October 3, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

Short and sweet, with harmonies you’d kill for let alone die for. Taken from the album “Slows to Go” – out now on Battle Worldwide Recordings

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Video: Kodiak Island “Spanish Steps”

October 3, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

New single from their debut album ‘The Golden Section’ – out 7 October on Musical BEAR Records

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The Band to Release 40th Anniversary Editions of “The Last Waltz”

October 2, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

On Thanksgiving Day 1976, The Band took the stage for the very last time at the Winterland Theatre in San Francisco. For the show, aptly billed as The Last Waltz,  Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, […]

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Video: The Goat Roper Rodeo Band “Old Heartache”

October 2, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

New video by three of the nicest boys in music, hailing from North Wales, this is taken from their forthcoming album Cosmic Country Blue out on Aveline Records next week.

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Video: Rachael Yamagata “Let Me Be Your Girl” (Official Video)

October 1, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

This new video is the third track to be released from Rachael’s forthcoming album, Tightrope Walker which is out via Thirty Tigers on November 11th.  Directed by Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), it stars […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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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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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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Classic Clips: Dwight Yoakam “Little Ways”- Austin City Limits, 1988

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Singer/songwriter Dwight Yoakam was raised in Columbus, Ohio; however his family’s background relates to Kentucky, its coal mining community and the influence of the Appalachian Mountains. Never one to follow the Nashville musical trends, Yoakam has […]

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Blue Rose Code “Love Is…” – Listen

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Blue Rose Code is aka singer-songwriter Ross Wilson and they’ve/he’s unveiled the first cut from their/his (we could go on like this…) forthcoming new album “The Water Of Leith” which is due out 27th October on Navigator Records. […]

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