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This cd, available through Drew's website I believe, is one heck of a coup for modern technology and for Rob Ellen's Medicine Show. As recorded on Rob's little machine (was it hanging from a coat peg?) the quality is plenty good enough - a…
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The M. stands for Mark but with two other Mark Lucas musicians out there this particular Mark has launched his solo career under a simple M. Born in Kentucky, he has been surrounded by traditional music all his life, latterly earning his keep in a folk duo and then in roots group Billyblues.…
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www.reverbnation.com/theskunnered
The Skunnered are four guys from Glasgow playing their own unique blend of easy rocking country and Scots folk song, with a dollop of Glasgow street song in there for good measure and all sung in their native accent. There's a wry humour at work in the very construction of…
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Londoner Jake Morley is a one-off, making sounds and writing songs that sound like no-one else I've ever heard. If it wasn't pretty much an acoustic album I would characterise "Many Fish To Fry" as a pop album: this is bright, sparkly music, easy to engage with and…
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Elliott Brood are a three piece from Toronto who play electrified folk-based music with punkish energy and intensity. The guys treat their collective identity as a character in his own right but I have to say I can't quite grasp how this informs their creative process -…
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That'll be JP "The Texan" as this boy hails from Amsterdam. I say "boy", but, coyly disguising his age with a woolly hat though he does, JP must be in his fifties if he's a day. It's a long musical career that's led to this point, playing several…
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High quality work, this, from Toronto based Cris Cuddy. A man who's kept a musical career going on several fronts over many years keeps it largely acoustic on this particular album. In doing so he still manages to cover a fair old stylistic range; "I'm A Cadillac" is a slow-burn blues-rock number that could almost be John Hiatt whilst the song that immediately follows it, "Hey Mr Bartender", sounds much more like Jimmy Dale…
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www.bobreamusic.com
Bob Rea hails from Durango, Colorado and has spent his life stumbling amongst the foothills of The American Dream; he's worked at several sorts of job, fallen foul of the law, struggled to raise his family and somehow survived it all with enough self-respect intact to be able to document this kind of life in song. There are hordes of people…
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Genre Warning: Rock music alert!
I had to say that because I'm not sure if this is FSR territory really, but heck, it's a great record. This is Luke Doucet's sixth 'solo' album in the last decade but his regular supporting cast get feature billing as The White Falcon in recognition of the co-operative effort that…
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www.adam-klein.com
Imagine a collection of songs with strong pop hooks that have their roots - in equal measure - in The Beatles, Whiskeytown and Son Volt and you'll have some idea of what this really classy set from Georgia's Adam Klein sounds like. OK, it's difficult, I know, but it's all there on…
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www.spikeflynn.com
Australian Spike Flynn is an unusual debutant into the music business. It seems he's been playing music and writing songs all his life but it's only now, in his fifties, that things have come together enough for him to have these songs recorded. In all these years, it's clear from his subject…
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www.theburnsunitband.com
Born out of the annual Burnsong songwriting retreat, The Burns Unit is apparently the band no-one wanted to be in, a freak co-operation between eight disparate talents that somehow came up with a bit of magic. There's some live dates coming up soon, including Celtic…
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