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Mary Chapin Carpenter “The Dirt And The Stars” (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers, 2020)

September 17, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

‘The Dirt And The Stars’ is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s first collection of new material since 2016’s ‘The Things That We Are Made Of.’ Her last record, ‘Sometimes Just The Sky’, which came out two years ago, […]

Jake Winstrom “Circles” (Independent, 2020)

September 16, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

New York resident Jake Winstrom says his first solo album, 2018’s ‘Scared Away The Song’, suffered from too many “serious songwriter” type songs and not enough fun, uptempo, jangly rock ‘n’ roll. Rest assured, on the […]

Two Bird Stone “Hands And Knees” (Soundly Music, 2020)

September 16, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

‘Hands And Knees’ is the debut album from Two Bird Stone which is a new band made up of some of Nashville and New York’s finest session musicians. The driving force behind the band is Liam […]

The Two Tracks “Cheers to Solitude” (Independent, 2020)

September 16, 2020 Tim Newby 0

‘Cheers to Solitude’ opens with the bouncy, infectious ‘Beautiful’, a song that is a tour across America from the Pacific Redwoods and Pacific ocean on the West Coast, through the deep South to New Orleans and […]

Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts “Nowhere To Go But Everywhere” (Independent, 2020)

September 15, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

The title of this album and now a readily used quotation is taken from Jack Kerouac’s novel ‘On the Road’: “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” In […]