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Track: Polly Paulusma revives the folk classic with sublime ‘ Barbary Allen ‘

Folk Singer, composer of English Literature Professor, Polly Paulusma is a force to be reckoned with. Already a highly established folk singer , Paulusma recorded her latest album ‘Invisible Man…

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Album Review: Jackie Leven – Straight Outta Caledonia…The Songs of Jackie Leven

I remember vividly the first time that I heard ‘The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ’ by outsider, Scottish troubadour Jackie Leven. It was 2001 and I was totally unprepared for…

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Album review: Dusted – ‘III’: A cross-country relocation blows the dust off an intimate, autumnal beauty

THERE’S a very strong argument to be made, in the sphere of the more introverted singer-songwriter and that of Americana, that the best music is the living music, the real…

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Album Review: Saint Sister dazzle on ‘Where I Should End’

When Where I Should End found its way to my email, so to speak, I welcomed it with a huge smile. I feel compelled to share my own personal connection,…

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See: koleżanka takes empathetic flight with the lush, modular indie of ‘In A Meeting’

KRISTINA MOORE it is who guises as koleżanka for her particular lusciously free, electronica- and folksily informed guitar music; and the New York-via-deepest Arizona songstress will surely be tempting her…

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See: Rianne Downey seizes the day with the honeyed country of ‘Do Or Die’

INVOKING the righteous bluegrassy, feminine country strength of a fine line of songwriters that stretch back through First Aid Kit and Shelby Lynne, and right on back to Dolly back…

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See: Montreal singer-songwriter Geoffroy arrows to the heart of you with ‘Cold World’

GEOFFROY is a Quebecois singer-songwriter, surname elsewhere Sauvé, who has a brace of lush EPs and a similar number of albums under his belt for Bonsound. He’s one of those…

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Tracks: The abidingly brilliant Patrick Watson shares the luscious three-part movement, ‘A Mermaid In Lisbon’

MONTREALAIS singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, the talent behind Cinematic Orchestra’s astonishing ballad “To Build A Home” and whose Adventures In Your Own Backyard is baroque pop album of the century so…

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Track: Jared Alto drops the haunting piano essay, ‘Stranger’

THE DRUNKEN phone call or text. Maybe to your ex, or a friend you’ve had recent beef with, or whomever; the advice the world over is simple; don’t do it.…

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See: IMOGEN ascends from intensive surgery in the piano catharsis of ‘Bloodbag’, her haunting debut single for Stay Loose

STAY LOOSE are more than a little pleased to welcome a new Tyneside talent to their burgeoning roster of excellent song-crafters in IMOGEN, a singer-songwriter with a voice that alternates…

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