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Jason Molina “Eight Gates” (Secretly Canadian, 2020)

September 2, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

There’s a lot that could be said about this record; the fascinating and moving chronicles of Jason Molina that lead to its recording, the myths and tales Molina told (liaisons with Hendrix’s parakeets and poisonous spider […]

Mean Mary “Alone” (Woodrock Records, 2020)

September 1, 2020 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

The title of the new Mean Mary album says it all – ‘Alone’. It is Mary and her banjo. Or Mary and her guitar. OK, sometimes she combines the two into one instrument banjitar. Plain and […]

Emily Barker “A Dark Murmuration Of Words” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)

September 1, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

For her sixth full-length album release Emily Barker is taking on the world. Addressing climate change, racism, sexism and the myths of economic progress, Barker has, in her own softly spoken and articulate way, delivered her […]

Various Artists “Back to Paradise: A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music” (Horton Records, 2020)

August 28, 2020 Viv Fish 0

The migration of people of Oklahoma, ‘the Okies’, to California from the mid-’30s to the mid-’50s, stirred by the Dust Bowl era, is a huge part of American history captured in the award-winning Steinbeck novel ‘The […]

Grain Thief “Gasoline” (Independent, 2020)

August 27, 2020 Tim Newby 0

It is a pretty great time for bluegrass right now, as a number of younger bands who have been clearly schooled in the traditions of the music, but who have also been raised with interests that […]