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I can't pretend: I don't actually like what Connie Smith calls "traditional country music". I have a passing acquaintance with some of the music from the 50s, 60s and 70s but whilst I can have some admiration for the likes of Patsy Cline and George Jones, it's never been music that I've really liked.…
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Blessed with a great voice - a bit of Janis, a bit of Aretha - New York-based Kirsten Thien has been honing her style for some years now, gigging hard and making plenty of friends along the way. Delicious is her third album and producer/co-writer Erik Boyd has pushed the boat out in terms of guest…
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This is one of those where you turn the volume up and hang on for the ride: this band bring you hard-driving rhythms, fast fingered guitar work and a collective drive that could leave you breathless in their wake if Girls, Guns and Glory didn't pause occasionally for a slower number in best honky-tonk tradition. These guys are based in New England…
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Just six tracks here, including two versions of the title song, so I guess this is more of a taster for what the man can do than a full-on career statement. Clearly a man lost in music, Robert has been a touring musician since his teens, developing a formidable finger picking style on his guitar over…
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Nick 13 is mainman and songwriter for the Californian psychobilly outfit, Tiger Army. This first solo project is a step back from the full-on sound of his band, in search of something more in touch with some country roots. The story of the album is told in the opening song here, Nashville Winter: "Out in this Nashville winter -…
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I think this one's been out for a couple of months now, and finds premier British bluesman Ian Siegal kicking back with some pals in what must be his spiritual home, North Mississippi. The Youngest Sons are just that, the youngest sons of the finest blues lineage: RL Burnside's youngest, Garry; Jim Dickinson's youngest, Cody; Junior…
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I reckon this'll be the third album for Wisconsin native Josh Harty. Coming from an intensely musical background, he seems to have been playing and performing most of his 30-odd years and his fluency on the acoustic guitar is testament to all those years of playing. As a songwriter, I would say he's striving to be as honest, as true to an emotion, as…
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That'll be Stephen Fearing and Andy White; Stephen Fearing has been big on the Canadian music scene for a long while as a performer, guitarist and songwriter, both solo and in a variety of collaborations, most notably Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. Ulsterman Andy White has had a similar sort of career, alternating…
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Top of the EuroAmericana Chart, feted on No Depression, loved by Bob Harris and Iain Anderson... all I can do is add to the mountain of praise for this wonderful record. The sidelit portraits on the cover, a la Dietrich, promise torch songs; the rusting truck in the field on the inside cover promises some downhome country music,…
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Well, I thought this was going to be songs about fishes, but she's referring to her star sign; I don't go for astrology myself but I think she's talking about the dreamy, drifty, floaty internal life she leads, which she's conjured into music with light-footed grace. I remember really enjoying Jane Gillman's most recent…
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