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Li’l Andy “All The Love Songs Lied To Us” (Sainte Cécile Records, 2019)

October 25, 2019 Sean Hannam 0

The ghost of Leonard Cohen looms large over the new album by Montreal’s Li’l Andy – in fact, the music for the title track, ‘All The Love Songs Lied To Us’, is based on Cohen’s 1984 […]

King of Birds “Eve of Destruction” (Valuable Recordings, 2019)

October 24, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

When the chorus kicks in on ‘Down On the Corner’ – the opening track on ‘Eve of Destruction,’ the debut album from sibling songwriters Charlie and Stirling Gorman, known collectively as King of Birds – the […]

Libby Koch “Redemption 10 – Live at Blue Rock” (Berkalin Records, 2019)

October 24, 2019 Dave Clarke 0

Libby Koch (rhymes with Coke), from Houston, Texas, now with an established reputation, wanted to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the recording of her first album, ‘Redemption.’ Ten years ago, it was Libby, a guitar and […]

Raelyn Nelson Band “Don’t” (Independent, 2019)

October 23, 2019 Ewan Lury 0

A name ending in Nelson gets you excited as a reviewer in this genre of music, hoping that you’ve been given the opportunity to listen to Willie Nelson’s or Lukas Nelson’s music before its official release. […]

Lizanne Knott “Bones and Gravity” (Independent, 2019)

October 23, 2019 Peter Churchill 1

Lizanne Knott is one of those wonderfully expressive singer-songwriters that sound as though, if they had gone down a different route, might have been swallowed up by mainstream Nashville’s blandness. Instead she, along with so many […]