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Ruth Moody “Wanderer”

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For the listeners, the lovers, the dreamers, and all those who wander. It’s not every day that an album sweeps you off your feet and hits the spot on first listening. Nor does every album have […]
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Music These Days “Big Wide States”

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Tucson, Arizona band revisits familiar territory on their second album. Anyone who thinks Music These Days is a Jackson Browne tribute band, raise your hand. Even as they mainly count the time in quarter notes except […]
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Phil Odgers and John Kettle “Far Rockaway – The Songs of Phil Ochs”

May 13, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Two stalwarts of the UK folk scene pay homage to one of America’s finest songsmiths of the sixties protest movement. Like so many releases of recent years the seeds to this project by Phil ‘Swill’ Odgers, […]
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Lawrence Rothman “The Plow That Broke The Plains”

May 13, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
A powerful confessional record which is layered musically and lyrically to reveal more on each listen. Lawrence Rothman’s career covers a lot of areas of the music and arts world – songwriter and performer, producer and […]
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Katie Pruitt “Mantras”

May 10, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0
Power pop and rock as a lesson in self-help. A songwriter and musician who shot to instant acclaim for her 2020 debut album ‘Expectations’, Katie Pruitt could not have chosen a more fitting title for her […]

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