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Peter Case “The Case Files”

New Peter Case due May 10th and available now to pre-order on CD and limited pink vinyl featuring demos, out-takes, a live shot & other rarities.

Here’s the teaser track.

Peter Case – Round Trip Stranger Blues

UK Tour Dates

11th May The Railway Hotel Southend-On-Sea, Essex 14th May Birchmeadow Centre Broseley, Shropshire 15th May Twickfolk The Cabbage Patch Pub Twickenham 16th May Green Door Store Brighton 18th May The Globe Hotel Topsham Exeter 19th May B-Bar at The Barbican Plymouth Devon

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Odds N Ends

Amber Dust have released May These Images Die with Dignity this week, you can listen over at their website, buy at CDBaby or download at eMusic – all the bands previous albums can be downloaded from their website (don’t forget to leave a tip)

My favourite track from the guys Amber Dust – Sunset Comes

From Music Fog this week Peter Case performing a track from his fantastic album Wig , Case has produced and performed on the upcoming album from Dead Rock West set for release early next year on Kasey Anderson’s (more) Red River Records, Kasey’s new album Heart of a Dog is set for release in December, he’s releasing a song a week at the albums website starting today.

Peter Case - Look Out

First single from the upcoming release The Falcon Lake Incident from Jim Bryson and The Weakerthans. Kelp Records will have this on . . . → Read More: Odds N Ends

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Townes – Covered and Covered Again

When the songs are that good it’s no surprise that there is a pair of albums out in the next month or so featuring covers of the late, great Townes van Zandt’s work.

The first one is Riding the Range – The songs of Townes Van Zandt, there’s an extra angle on this one as part of the proceeds from the sale goes to the QE2 Activity Centre, the album features 20 tracks in all from a great selection of artists including some personal favourites of mine, Danny & The Champions, Peter Case, Jeffery Foucault, Jeb Loy Nichols, Peter Bruntnell and of course Michael Weston King (who wrote the title track Riding the Range which Townes recorded and released as a single shortly before he died), I had the pleasure of seeing the last trio of singer songwriters performing together a couple of years ago and Weston King sang Marie on that occasion (always brings . . . → Read More: Townes – Covered and Covered Again

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Alejandro Escovedo “Street Songs of Love”

Taking advantage of the unseasonally fine weather of late I’ve been keeping fellow motorists amused with my impromptu performances – window down, arm hanging out the car keeping time on the door, singing (I use that term – loosely) at the top of my voice, maybe it’s all the sunshine but I’ve being playing a lot of turn it up loud rock ‘n’ roll stuff over the last few weeks, got a kick-ass mix tape based around some recent albums I’ve acquired on shuffle and repeat to beat the boredom out of the rush hour, in the mix are tracks from Drive-by Truckers, Paul Weller, Gaslight Anthem, The Whybirds, American Aquarium, Scott H. Biram, Lucero, The Famous, Peter Case and Alejandro Escovedo who’s latest album is a real cracker in my opinion and making a strong case for my end of year top ten, the album includes guest appearances from The Boss on the . . . → Read More: Alejandro Escovedo “Street Songs of Love”

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