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Jason McNiff “Rain Dries Your Eyes” (Tombola Records, 2017)

April 24, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
Delve into the Americana UK archives and you’ll find a lot of love for Jason McNiff. Over the course of 15 years and six albums, McNiff has constantly found favour with assorted reviewers (a task in […]
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Dire Wolves “Excursions to Cloudland” (Beyond Beyond is Beyond, 2017)

April 21, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Four tracks do not an EP make – not when they time-in at up to 12 minutes – so make no mistake, this release from Dire Wolves is a fully fledged album. Excursions to Cloudland is […]
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Richard Laviolette “Taking The Long Way Home” (You’ve Changed Records, 2017)

April 21, 2017 Rick Bayles 0
This is a good record – nicely written, songs performed well, you can’t really want for much more! Richard Laviolette is the real deal, a singer-songwriter from Ontario, Canada, Taking the Long Way Home is his […]
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Danny Worsnop ‘’The Long Road Home’’ (Earache Records, 2017)

April 20, 2017 Nick Jarman 0
Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria and We Are Harlot fame has gone solo and released a country record. We’ve seen stories like this coming out of Nashville in great Americana records by Don Henley, to more […]
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No Line North “Dreams of Trees, Part 1” (Twin Lakes, 2017)

April 19, 2017 Rick Bayles 0
This is, effectively, an EP – just five tracks – but Part 2 is scheduled for release later this year and will “maintain its folk leanings and delve more heavily into garage rock”. Meanwhile Dreams of […]

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