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As you listen to Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest, a feeling of totality, of completeness, steals over you, like a thief in broad daylight. Of course it does – you’re listening... 

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On his third and most finely wrought album yet, guitarist, singer, and master interpreter Fussell is joined for the first time by a full band featuring Nathan Bowles (drums), Casey... 

Anna Tivel is set to release her 4th LP, The Question, on April 19 and it promises to be her most groundbreaking effort to date. Produced by multi-instrumentalist, Shane... 

Bobby Charles pioneered the musical genre known as ‘swamp rock’ – he wrote the early rock n roll classic “See You Later, Alligator” (best known via the version... 

Frankie Lee is back with his follow-up to his 2015 debut album American Dreamer and we can assure you now, it was well worth the wait. Here’s Downtown Lights, the... 

Sure. When the name Dale Hawkins is mentioned, it is mostly associated with Suzie-Q, one of the great classics of rockabilly and garage rock of the sixties. Originally... 

The Saint Of Lost Causes is the 8th album from American roots troubadour, Justin Townes Earle. Earle’s latest album finds a songwriter and artist who is unflinching and... 

Loose have been mega fans of Damien Jurado from his first Sub Pop-released records 20 years ago, through his spectacular discography with Secretly Canadian, right up... 

Sky Blue, a collection of unreleased songs by one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century, is a time capsule that Townes Van Zandt created forty-six years... 

The new band, formed by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, kept their plans under wraps for months as they wrote and recorded in Los Angeles in the summer and fall of... 

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For over a decade, Steve Gunn has been one the American music’s most pivotal figures -- conjuring immersive and psychedelic sonic landscapes both live and on record, releasing... 

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“Larry Jon Wilson? He can break your heart with a voice like a cannonball.” - Kris Kristofferson. Larry Jon Wilson came to the party late. When he arrived in Nashville, country... 

On The Lillywhite Sessions, Ryley Walker and the similarly indebted trio of drummer Ryan Jewell and bassist Andrew Scott Young cover Dave Matthews' infamously abandoned 2001... 

The third album from Jessica Pratt on vinyl. The album was written in Los Angeles and recorded at Gary's Electric in Brooklyn, NY over 2017/2018. 

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