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A music blog featuring Alt-Country, Americana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues. Est. 2005.

Folk Alliance 2018 – Mayer’s Picks, Part 2

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Ruby BootsNashville by way of Australia singer-songwriter Ruby Boots was celebrating the release of her just released Bloodshot Records debut. She brought together an infectious enthusiasm with stellar songs, mostly about relationships, that matched catchy melodies with lyrical fervor. Una and Bob WalkenhorstThere aren’t many father-daughter duos in music. Then again, there aren’t many songwriters […]

Song Premiere: Wolfe Jackson – Photographs

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Born and raised in the United Kingdom, singer-songwriter Wolfe Jackson moved to New York a few years ago to hone his craft and absorb the music scene, and then out to Los Angeles.  His soon-to-be-released second record, Nobody Knows Me (Better Than You) has several good, gritty rock-and-roll tunes that show me he found the […]

Folk Alliance 2018 – Mayer’s Picks, Part 1

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The Accidentals I first saw this young trio from Michigan at Folk Alliance a few years ago. They were certainly talented then but several more years of writing and performing have propelled them into another musical stratosphere. I caught them several times — at least once a day — during the course of the conference, […]

Folk Alliance International – The Best Music Festival You’ve Never Heard About

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With slightly less than 4000 attendees, the annual gathering of Folk Alliance International is still small enough to be held in a hotel.  It doesn’t have a stadium-draw headliner, but other than that and lack of a campground, there’s everything else you’d want in a music festival.  And most of it is done better than […]

Readers’ Pick: Fire Dream by J.D. Wilkes

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You picked Fire Dream by rockabilly singer-songwriter, J.D. Wilkes, as your favorite new release for the week of February 16, 2018. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2018 J.D. WILKES, […]

Readers’ Pick: Don’t Talk About It by Ruby Boots

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You picked Don’t Talk About It by Aussie singer-songwriter, Ruby Boots, as your favorite new release for the week of February 9, 2018. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. Readers’ Tops Winter & Spring 2018 […]

Waterloo Sunset – AmericanaFest UK 2018

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If you’ve ever traveled to another country, you know the quiz well. Border control agent: “So, what brings you to (insert country name here)?” What you may be less familiar with is the variety of quizzical expressions you get from those border control agents when you’re traveling to England and your answer is: “an Americana […]

Jason Isbell – Divine Providence

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“How did we not know about this show?” my wife said to me. “I have no idea.” Even though we have two little ones under four and rarely make it out to shows (when we used to attend three or four regularly per week), a Jason Isbell show is an event. His songwriting, particularly since […]