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Brock Zeman “The Carnival is Back in Town” (Busted Flat Records, 2017)

May 5, 2017 David Stevenson 0
Canadian musician Brock Zeman has had an excellent career and shows no sign of slowing up his output with his thirteenth release, the highly ambitious ‘The Carnival Is Back In Town’. 10 years in the making […]
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Joe Martin “Small World” (Independent, 2017)

May 4, 2017 Mark Nenadic 0
Youthful Red Rose native Joe Martin has crossed the Pennines to begin his musical adventures from a West Yorkshire base, physically at least. Spiritually he’s rooted in the 1970s American singer-songwriter world of Don McLean, Jackson […]
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Ha Ha Tonka “Heart-Shaped Mountain” (Bloodshot, 2017)

May 4, 2017 David Cowling 0
In which HHT continue to expand their brand of indie-Americana, sometimes resulting in excursions into areas that maybe should remain off limits. Mostly though they find a sweet spot where they find surging choruses that scream […]
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Oh Susanna “A Girl in Teen City” (Continental Song City, 2017)

May 3, 2017 David Stevenson 0
Everyone has been, or will be, a teenager at some point in their lives and although we all have different personal experiences throughout those years, the feelings we have; the sense of hope for the future, […]
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Beth//James “All In Life” (Independent 2017)

May 2, 2017 Tim Merricks 0
Firstly, let’s remove one potentially confusing element of this debut EP. The clue’s in the double slash, it’s not Beth James the solo artist but Austin-based folk duo Mikaela Beth Kahn and Jordan James Burchill that […]

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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It is not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with […]

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