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Ron Sexsmith “Hermitage” (Cooking Vinyl, 2020)

May 20, 2020 Rick Bayles 0
Songsmith Sexsmith arrives with his sixteenth album and it’s a notable departure from much of his earlier work. The Canadian singer/songwriter sounds positively chipper. In the wake of a move from his habitual home city of […]
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Pete Bernhard “Harmony Ascension Division” (Independent, 2020)

May 20, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0
Nice and uncomplicated. The world could probably do with a little more nice and uncomplicated these days. The Devil Makes Three’s Pete Bernhard, along with his bandmates, have been gifting the world epic soundscapes of rootsy […]
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Ayla Brook and The Sound Men “Desolation Sounds” (Fallen Tree Records, 2020)

May 19, 2020 Mark Johnson 0
It was Captain George Vancouver himself who, whilst mapping the (now) British Columbia coastline, named the deepwater of Desolation Sound, claiming that “there is not a single prospect that is pleasing to the eye”. Of course […]
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Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards “Road May Rise” (Nobody’s Favorite Records, 2020)

May 19, 2020 Joe Edwards 0
Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards have contributed more than a decade to their love of American folk and country music, most recently offering ‘Road May Rise’, their third studio album recorded at Signature Sounds Studio, a […]
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Laura Marling “Song For Our Daughter” (Chrysalis/Partisan Records, 2020)

May 19, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0
The seventh solo album by English singer-songwriter Laura Marling was released earlier than planned to provide “something that, at the very least, might entertain, and at its best, provide some sense of union” in these uncertain […]

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New Yorker Jesse Malin began his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, before assuming the role of vocalist of glam punk band D Generation. Between 1994 and 1999 D Generation released three […]
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Sensitive sounds carry poetic lyrics and encourage deeper reflections on meaning. Mildred is a four-piece band from Oakland, CA, with members: Henry Easton Koehler (vocals, guitar), Jack Schrott (vocals, guitar), Matt Palmquist (vocals, bass, woodwinds) or […]
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We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the explosion […]

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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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Track Premiere: Caitlin Cannon “Amarillo & Little Rock”

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Caitlin Cannon has been pretty busy the last few years, with the release of her debut ‘The TrashCannon Album‘ in 2020 and ‘Lucky Break‘ in 2021 with Side Pony (her duo-project with singer Alice Wallace).  And […]
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Video Premiere: Caitlin Cannon “The Alchemist”

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Here is the latest single from Nashville-based singer Caitlin Cannon.  With beautifully-layered instrumentation, ‘The Alchemist’ is delivered with a rich, full sound and the result is timeless.   In this live reincarnation of the song, we have […]
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Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears “Head In The Sand”

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Eclectic mix of genres and self-critical reflections following traumatic times. Nashville’s celebrated guitarist and singer-songwriter Sean Thompson released his first album ‘Weird Ears’ in 2022. That was very much a country record in which he demonstrated […]

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