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A seventh album from North Carolinan Dave Desmelik, and he sounds like a man entirely comfortable following his own muse. By this point in a career, most artists have made a stab at making an album with some commercial savvy about it. To be fair, I’m only familiar with Dave Desmelik’s previous cd, Onlooker. That yielded one song…
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John Lilly has been lauded on Flyinshoes Review many times because in his own low-key, unassuming way he has seemed to be the truest modern embodiment of the music of Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. Over several albums he has developed a knack of writing songs that sound half a century old, and has performed them with an…
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If Bob Wootton didn’t start out in life sounding like Johnny Cash, then thirty years spent playing lead guitar for the big man certainly left their mark. The guitar sound is instantly recognisable, of…
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Colorado blues/folk musician Kevin Dooley calls his particular brand of music "American Celtic". You'd guess the Irish heritage isn't very far away at all with a name like that, though Kevin sings with an American accent that sounds thick with tobacco juice - he could be one of those familiar faces (and voices) that pops up…
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Randy who? Randy Thompson, that’s who. A Virginia native with family roots in the state going back pretty much as far as they possibly could, Randy plays rocking country music of the highest quality. Imagine someone who combines the best qualities of Joe Ely and Steve Earle (in his original country outlaw guise) and…
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Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet are both well established names on the Canadian music scene and, after five years of marriage, have decided to marry their musical careers in a new band they call Whitehorse. Testing the waters a little tentatively, this twenty five minute disc is just long enough to find out if they want to…
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I became aware of Texan fiddler Amanda Shires over the last few years because of her partnership with Rod Picott, who’s long been a bit of a favourite with me. What I hadn’t realised until Carrying Lightning arrived was just how much of an all-round talent she is. A fiddler for sure, good enough to be…
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The Indigo Girls have been part of my musical landscape for close on twenty years; Swamp Ophelia was the first album of theirs I got into, I think, and my affection for their work has waxed and waned a little as time has gone on. Sometimes they’ve seemed a little strident, a little too insistent for their music to be a…
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Madison Violet are Canadians Lisa MacIsaac and Brenley MacEachern, purveyors of very fine roots pop (y’know, think Alison Krauss) characterised by gentle arrangements and gorgeous harmonies. Somebody other than me came up with the roots pop tag, but it fits these ladies like a glove. The Good in Goodbye is their fourth…
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A couple of years ago, Mark W Lennon had a short album out called Down the Mountain. It was a wee gem of an album that belied its Californian origin to sound like the sweetest slice of Appalachia-inspired music that you could hope to hear – laid back and flowing easily from beginning to end. Sure, there were dark lyrical currents…
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There’s not much country music from New Zealand that breaks out internationally (as in: I can’t think of any) but Aly Cook is a fine performer who has already been out and about in the world beyond her home shores. She was at the Americana International festival in Newark last year and will be back in the UK this year. Brand New Day…
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Notable Canadian bluesman Matt Andersen has been putting out records for a decade now but still looks too young to be making music as soulfully mature as to be found on this new album. A bear of a man, he wins plaudits wherever he goes for his guitar virtuosity, and will front his band with an acoustic or an electric guitar – no…
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"The Bisciuts and Gravy Tour Bus"
Me, Cousti and Rob Ellen on our way
to our House Concert,…
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