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Gregory Page “A Wild Rose” (Independent, 2018)

June 15, 2018 Steven Howlett 0
Gregory Page’s new album ‘A Wild Rose’ draws on a rich heritage. Page is a Londoner by birth, Irish-Armenian by heritage; his mother was the singer in a band that toured with the Beatles, his uncle […]
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Johnny “Chops” Richardson “Johnny Chops and the Razors” (Independent, 2018)

June 14, 2018 Rick Bayles 0
Johnny “Chops” Richardson is a member of established Texan outfit the Randy Rogers Band, where he’s held down the bass player role for the last sixteen years. Here he steps away from the bass guitar role […]
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Ben Bostick “Hellfire” (Independent, 2018)

June 13, 2018 Tim Merricks 1
Easy to dismiss at first listen as the kind of low-grade dirty country rock mastered and simultaneously lampooned by Jeff Bridges in his 2009 Oscar-winning performance as ‘Bad’ Blake in Crazy Heart, ‘Hellfire’ should not be […]
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Jarle Skavhellen “The Ghost in Your Smile” (Nettwerk, 2018)

June 12, 2018 Mark Nenadic 2
Scandinavian Alt Folk is a subgenre known only to a select few. However, Norwegian Jarle Skavhellen ably demonstrates that it warrants a far wider audience. This is a quirky, often dark collection of songs. Considering that […]
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Brent Cobb “Providence Canyon” (Low Country Sound/Atlantic, 2018)

June 12, 2018 Mark Johnson 0
Touring his previous album, Brent Cobb rolled into Manchester to play the day after the Ariana Grande massacre. As effectively the next American up, his decision whether to play attracted a lot of attention Stateside, especially […]

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