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Frank Turner “Undefeated”
Barnstorming post-punk with intelligent and thoughtful lyrics. If you have not been to a Frank Turner concert, it is something to behold. He is up there giving it “110 percent”, as they say, backed by his […]
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Mark Brown “Happy Hour”
A collection of fourteen songs covering a lot of ground musically and lyrically. Mark Brown is one of many working performers whose music falls under the americana category. Ploughing a furrow of self-released records, working with […]
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Paper Wings “Listen To The World Spin”
Perfection. That’s it. After a three year break from recording together, and on their third album, Emily Mann and Wila Frank, known together as Paper Wings, have placed an indelible mark on the modern folk old […]
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Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young “The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert”
How a live recording of a concert can preserve one powerful moment indelibly in time. “We are on the road to world peace, freedom, and integration”, declares ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1965, as he introduces this […]
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Linda Thompson “Proxy Music”
A celebration of one artist’s songs by family and friends who just happen to be music icons. You can easily make the case that Linda Thompson is one of the greatest British vocalists of the last […]