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by Stephen Averill
5d ago
Matt Owens and the Delusional Vanity Project Way Out West Urby This new album is a strong statement of endurance from a very talented artist. A former member of Noah and the Whale for over nine years where he featured on bass guitar, Owens reinvented himself as a solo artist with the release of his debut album in 2019. He has since gone on to release three further albums and this new project is the second time that he has recorded with the Delusional Vanity Project - (great name)! The DVP is a seven-piece band made up of musicians from other bands that have circled around Owens orbit over the ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
2w ago
The Hanging Stars On A Golden Shore Loose  The past decade has found The Hanging Stars' profile consistently rising with each step they take. Their distinctive sound, a fusion of indie-flavoured cosmic country, has remained relatively unchanged since their 2016 debut album, OVER THE SILVERY LAKE. ON A GOLDEN SHORE maintains their 'album every two years' output. For their latest project, four of the band, Richard Olson, Paulie Cobra, Patrick Ralla and Paul Milne, travelled to Edwyn Collins' Clashnarrow Studios at Helmsdale on the northeast coast of Scotland, where they ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
3w ago
The High Hawks Mother Nature's Show Lo-Hi 'No one is seeking fame, no one is seeking a big pay check. We're doing it because it brings us so much joy,' explains Chad Staehly (vocals, keyboards), one of six members of The High Hawks. The band is a coming together of like-minded artists and close friends. The others are Vince Herman (vocals, guitars), Tim Carbone (vocals, guitars, fiddle), Adam Greuel (vocals, guitars), Brian Adams (bass guitar) and Will Trask (drums, percussion).  They bring their collective talents together once more with MOTHER NATURE'S SHOW, their second ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
1M ago
Red Sammy Holy Fluorescent Light Self Release The band name is a performing vehicle for Adam Trice and this tenth album adds to the consistently fine work he has been releasing since the debut record appeared in 2007 and brought him to media attention. The band on this album is Bruce Elliott (electric guitar), Greg Humphreys (bass, backing vocals), Kenneth Noble (drums, percussion), and Adam Trice (lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars). The eight songs kick off with the driving beat of Getting It Over, a rocking rendition of guitar riff and reckless reverie. The following Some Days I Fee ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
1M ago
Hank Woji Highways, Gamblers, Devils and Dreams Self Release This is the sixth release from songwriter Hank Woji who resides in Terlingua, Texas and it’s a welcome addition, given that the previous album came out in 2014. During this nine year gap Woji has continued to tour regularly in the United States, performing at festivals, theatres, clubs and house concerts both as a solo artist and in other duo and trio combinations. He also performs with a Tex-Americana Jam Band called The Hank Woji Conspiracy. This ambitious project stretches into a double album with twenty three songs and a running ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
2M ago
Suzy Bogguss Prayin’ For Sunshine Loyal Duchess The career of country artist Suzy Bogguss reads like a movie script. Born in small-town Aledo, Illinois, she sang in a church choir at five years old, was crowned homecoming queen in her teens, sang and played guitar and drums in her college years, where she earned a degree in metalsmithing, before moving to Nashville in 1985 to follow her dream. That move led to the distinction of being the first female performer at Dolly Parton’s Silver Dollar City theme park (later to be re-named Dollywood) and a career that, to date, has yielded Gra ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
2M ago
Brown Horse Reservoir Loose Previously a four-piece folk band formed in 2018, Brown Horse original members Emma Tovell, Nyle Holihan, Patrick Turner and Rowan Braham were joined in more recent years by Ben Auld and Phoebe Troup to complete the current six-piece. With a core sound that reaches back to an earlier time and place, the Norfolk, UK band’s debut album offers a harmonised and edgy country rock sound. The latest signing to U.K. label Loose, the album was recorded in just four days at Sickroom Studios in rural East Anglia, the studio being a large barn-like structure surrounde ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
3M ago
Dan Bern New American Language Grand Phony Like meeting an old friend again after many years, this album was initially released in 2001 (on the fateful day of 9/11) and is getting another deserved run out in this remastered version, some 22 years later, next month in 2024 (and on vinyl for the first time too). It was produced by the trio of Will Masisak, Colin Mahoney and Chuck Plotkin. At the time, it was placed in with the emerging Americana movement, but as with its subject, it was not without its bite and featured some hard-edged guitar alongside the more tender moments. If I rem ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
3M ago
The Pleasures The Beginning of The End Self Release Between them Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan have won several Golden Guitars (the Australian equivalents of CMA awards) and have well established careers in their native Australia in the country/Americana field, but they had never recorded together before. Enter their new joint venture, The Pleasures, with their debut album THE BEGINNING OF THE END which is somewhat of a concept album, based loosely around infidelity and breakup. Britt freely admits that the breakup of her marriage just before lockdown influenced the writing, and between th ..read more
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by Stephen Averill
4M ago
Billy Don Burns I've Seen A Lot Of Highways Black Country Rock With a lived-in vocal and, as this album title suggests, many road miles under his belt, Arkansas-born singer-songwriter Billy Don Burns resurrects memories from a career that spans over five decades on his latest studio recording. When asked about his road stories a few years back in an interview, Burns replied, 'I think I will pass on the road stories. Most of mine are either X-rated or incriminating.' He's certainly not short of writing ammunition, claiming to have been stabbed seventeen times, spent time in priso ..read more
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