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

Readers’ Pick: Three Red Feathers by The Blackberry Bushes Stringband

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THE BLACKBERRY BUSHES STRINGBAND, Three Red Feathers beats out KEVIN GORDON, Long Time Gone as your favorite for the week of September 4, 2015. 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’ Top 25 – Summer […]

John Mayall – Find a Way to Care

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John Mayall is often called the “Godfather of British Blues,” but his legacy may include so much more than just pioneering the British blues.  By introducing a generation of rock fans to the blues, he arguably had a hand in saving blues as a viable music form at a time in the 1960s when elderly bluesmen […]

Monday Morning Video – Frank Turner “Get Better”

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For those in denial that summer is coming to a close (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), here’s Frank Turner to the rescue with a late summer anthem. The song, from the just released Positive Songs For Negative People, is both boisterous and inspirational: So try and get better and don’t ever accept less Take […]

Readers’ Pick: Numbers Man by Andy T Nick Nixon Band

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ANDY T NICK NIXON BAND, Numbers Man beats out STEEP CANYON RANGERS, RADIO as your favorite for the week of August 28, 2015. 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’ Top 25– Summer 2015 BOBBY […]

The Blackberry Bushes String Band – Three Red Feathers

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I love it when music transports you to another time or place.  Some musicians do it with their stories.  We wrote about Kevin Gordon last week.  John Prine and Robert Earl Keen also come to mind.  Other musicians do it with the music itself.  The Mavericks always make my short list for that, as does […]

Route 128 on a Dark and Lonely Night – A Special Boston Playlist

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Here is the latest installment in our periodic series highlighting Boston and New England artists. (View the complete series here.) Jambalaya, Girls Guns and Glory (from the self-released A Tribute to Hank Williams – Live!) Girls Guns and Glory’s annual Hank Williams tribute shows have rapidly become a New Year’s tradition. With the help of […]

Zac Harmon – Right Man Right Now

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Good music speaks for itself. Long-time session- and side-man Zac Harmon, who produced and wrote music for artists as varied as Black Uhuru and The O’Jays, has made some good music after launching his young solo blues career. Hailing from Jackson, Mississippi, Harmon spent a number of years playing with soul-blues artists like Z.Z. Hill and […]

Readers’ Pick: Carry The Ghost by Noah Gundersen

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Noah Gundersen’s “Carry The Ghost” beats out Jackie Greene’s “Back to Birth” as your favorite for the week of August 21, 2015. Poll Results New This Week 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 – Summer 2015 […]