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Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers - Starlight Hotel

Sometimes it takes a while but I get there in the end, this album came out back in April but didn’t end up on my playlist until later in the year which is a travesty given it’s one of the very best albums of the year and so I finally get around to singing it’s praises now.

Kicking off with a blast of mariachi trumpets, a classic country shuffle and a healthy helping of twang I’ve Been Gone sets the album of perfectly, the great thing is though it just keeps getting better and better the further into the album you go, no duds, no filler, just wonderfully expressive country sentiment and narrative, gift wrapped and adorned with sweet melodies, yearning and heartache the albums ten tracks are all Muth originals and are served up by a first class team of players and back room boys.

Muth’s vocal is . . . → Read More: Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers – Starlight Hotel

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Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle - We Still Love Our Country

Singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez is no stranger to collaborations having released a number of fine albums with long time friend Chip ‘Wild Thing’ Taylor, this time around she’s teamed up with Ben Kyle of Romantica for an album of ‘country’ duets, the album We Still Love Our Country, is set for a Oct 3rd release in the UK.

The eight track release checks in at a little under half-an-hour and is a mixture of both artists songs and covers including If I Needed You by the late great Townes Van Zandt and the Gram & Emmylou classic Love Hurts both of which they do a fine job with, if your penchant is for the charm of a ‘classic’ country sound you’ll love this, listen to the rest of the album and pick up the download for $5.00 at here.

Carrie Rodriquez and Ben Kyle – Love Hurts

Carrie’s in the . . . → Read More: Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle – We Still Love Our Country

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Caitlin Rose - ATO vinyl news, bonus tracks and live covers

After her success this side of the water Caitlin Rose recently signed with ATO Records in the US who have issued their release of her début full length album Own Side Now with a bonus track T-Shirt.

After moaning about the lack of a vinyl release back in December of last year I’m very pleased to hear ATO have remedied this and better still it will include a pair of bonus tracks, covers of Faithless Love by Linda Ronstadt and Marie by Randy Newman.

Here’s a selection of covers including a live version of Marie cut from a previous Caitlin Rose feature.

Caitlin Rose – Pretty Paper

Caitlin Rose – Still Feelin Blue (Live)

Caitlin Rose – You Are My Sunshine

Caitlin Rose – Marie (Randy Newman)

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The Barker Band - Dig Me A Hole

I spent an hour or two last night trawling through the WWW trying to catch up on what a few favourite bands I’d not heard any news on in a while and lo-and-behold I find out The Barker Band are getting around to releasing a new album that they’ve being working on for sometime now – not on a Guns N Roses / Gilliam Welch timescale I should add, but it’s must be two years ago when it was first mentioned – anyway the goods news is according to a recent Facebook post the new record is due out in November and in the interim there are a few tracks to sample and one to download from Bandcamp.

For those not familiar with the band, Dig Me A Hole will be the bands fifth release, twin brothers Sam (banjo, mandolin) and Jake (banjo, mandolin) Barker along with life . . . → Read More: The Barker Band – Dig Me A Hole

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