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White Owl Red “Afterglow” (Hush Mouth Records, 2020)

March 24, 2020 Alan Fitter 0
Less than a year after the release of ‘Existential Frontiers’, White Owl Red have released another album ‘Afterglow’ and unfortunately it doesn’t reach the heights of its predecessor. White Owl Red is basically singer/songwriter Josef McManus […]
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Arik Dov “The Man” (Independent, 2020)

March 23, 2020 Scott Baxter 0
I saw a t-shirt once that said “there are too many bikes, said no one ever” and I thought that was funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but funny cos it’s true funny. I’d wear one […]
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Driftwood Soldier “Stay Ahead of the Wolf” (Bloodshot Records, 2019)

March 23, 2020 Lyndon Bolton 0
Describing themselves as “Gutterfolk for the masses” this duo from Pennsylvania may have created a new category of Americana. If by ‘Gutter’ they mean sticking up for the underdog, that looks right. And in its context […]
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William Prince “Reliever” (Glassnote, 2020)

March 20, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Following up his 2018 debut release with the Dave Cobb and Scott Nolan produced ‘Reliever‘, First Nations Canadian William Prince brings his not-so-secret weapon to bear on a set of songs that muse on the brevity […]
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Karen Dalton “The Recording Is The Trip – The Karen Dalton Archives” (Megaphone, 2020)

March 19, 2020 Martin Johnson 0
‘Recording Is The Trip – The Karen Dalton Archives’ is a sumptuous box set that is currently retailing at £95 on Amazon. It includes two remastered albums across 3 CDs and the same albums issued for […]

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Listen to the first single to be taken from it below. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has announced Sugar, her first album in nearly a decade, due out June 26th via One Riot which is described as […]

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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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