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Track: Sally Anne Morgan releases ‘Polly On The Shore’

It’s getting mighty crowded in the psych-folk district right now. So to stand out you need that little something else … enter Sally Anne Morgan. A fiddler, banjo player and…

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TRACK: Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’: a warm groove with a lyrical arrow

JOHN DARNIELLE’S evergreen and much-loved Mountain Goats are shaping up to release their second full-lengther of the year, Getting Into Knives; and today they’ve released a highlight from the forthcoming album…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Sally Anne Morgan – ‘Thread’: homespun Appalachian warmth from Black Twig Pickers’ player

QUIETLY collaborating away in some of the finer, truest to tradition acts of the Americana movement such as the Black Twig Pickers, the time is now ripe for multi-instrumentalist Sally…

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SEE: Tomberlin – ‘Wasted’: evocative rootsiness trails October Saddle Creek EP

SADDLE CREEK’S Tomberlin, who delighted the ears of those who found her on her seductive 2018 debut LP At Weddings, has announced a new EP for late October. And in…

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SEE: Laura Veirs – ‘Turquoise Walls’: the late-night blue (-green)s rendered Americana heartbreak

PORTLAND songstress Laura Veirs, who has been delighting our ears for a full 21 years now with her beautifully judged and melodious Americana, is readying herself for the release of…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Ry Cooder’: a track for a legend, the penultimate ‘gold’

WE REALLY are that far down the line toward the end of the summer. Bill Callahan has released a track for Monday for nine consecutive weeks now ahead of Gold…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Cowboy’: whisky, water and whistlin’ our tired bones home

IT’S KINDA hard to believe that Bill has led us through the summer like an Americana pied piper, Monday by Monday, sprinkling the grey start of the week with a…

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TRACK: Tanya Donnelly and the Parkington Sisters – ‘You Will Be Loved Again’: album release listening parties on Friday

TANYA DONELLY, who’s forged a career of alt.pop brilliance through Throwing Muses, Belly and just as Tanya herself, is set to release a seductive LP of close-harmony bluegrass covers with…

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SEE: Emma Swift – ‘You’re A Big Girl Now’: a Dylan tune comes of age in Emma’s hands

MY, BUT she knows how to get inside a song and bring out the emotional depth, the resonance, the beauty, does singer-songwriter Emma Swift. Coming out of Nashville, Tennessee, Emma…

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SEE: Mountain Goats – ‘As Many Candles As Possible’: monochrome prophecies from their second of the year

PRODIGIOUS and fiercely loved East Coaster indie-folk outfit The Mountain Goats have announced their second album of 2020, Getting Into Knives, an album which they describe as “ … perfect…

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