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The Pine Hearts “Lost Love Songs”
Pacific North West bluegrass with echoes of punk and funk. The term bluegrass was coined in 1965 for the genre of music created in the ‘40s by Bill Monroe whose backing band was called the Blue […]
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Eric Brace & Last Train Home “Everything Will Be”
Album number ten is a varied collection of quality tunes. There’s nine musicians playing around 14 instruments credited on this album and quite a range of styles and but Brace and his band here manage to […]
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Sofie Livebrant “Weep The Time Away: Emily Bronte”
Lively folk-jazz settings of the poems of Emily Bronte are quite the treat. Sofie Livebrant lays the responsibility for this, her sixth album, at least in part at the feet of the Covid pandemic. You know […]
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Raine Hamilton “Brave Land”
An LP that starts well but struggles as it goes on. Raine Hamilton’s chamber-folk album has moments of real quality, but also moments where she seems to lose sight of what she wants the album to […]
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The Whitmore Sisters “Ghost Stories”
Sisters Bonnie and Eleanor Whitmore set aside their individual projects to join together for a highly impressive first outing as a duo. Bonnie and Eleanor Whitmore have both established themselves as accomplished figures within the pantheon […]