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Old Man Luedecke “She Told Me Where To Go”

May 23, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Two-time Juno Award recipient’s first album in five years delivers a distinct departure from signature sound. After having temporarily given up the music business for a life on the ocean waves, working as a deckhand aboard […]

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Old Man Luedecke to release new album “She Told Me Where To Go”

April 23, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Old Man Luedecke will release his latest album ‘She Told Me Where To Go’ on 24th  May 2024. The album had its genesis in the pandemic when Luedecke began going out to sea on a scallop […]

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Old Man Luedecke “My Status Is The Baddest” – hey, where’s the banjo?

January 24, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

For those who associate Old Man Luedecke with the banjo, well it’s time to reappraise your associations.  On this standalone single, as rhe picture clearly shows, Old Man Luedecke has definitely gone electric. It’s been a […]

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Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, 1st-4th August 2019

August 13, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0

Now in its 55th year, an impressive achievement in itself, Cambridge Folk Festival continues to go from strength to strength and this year’s event was one of the best. At the top of the bill there […]

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Old Man Luedecke “Easy Money” (True North Records, 2019)

July 22, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Old Man Luedecke is the performing name for Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player Chris Luedecke who typically crosses a number of folk-ish styles in his music, and the new album ‘Easy Money‘ is no exception to […]

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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We keep telling anyone who’ll listen that Passenger, aka Brighton’s Mike Rosenberg, is one of the finest contemporary songwriters around and today he’s today released new single ‘Hell Or High Water’ which is in a word fantastico. […]

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