Last night the wonderful Mother Hen Touring presented a great triple bill at the Petersham Bowling Club in Sydney’s inner west. Bell St Delays are the wife and husband duo of Tracy McNeil and Luke Sinclair (Raised By Eagles) and they played a beautiful set that gently dipped into country and folk styles while staying fully … Continue reading
If you haven’t heard Davey Craddock yet then you need to. Odds are if you’re reading this blog then you appreciate great alt-country, blues and rock ‘n’ roll and Craddock combines all of the above with real verve and emotion. His last EP contained the brilliant and catchy single ‘Keep On Waiting‘ and he followed … Continue reading
The Ravenna Colt is the current project of ex-My Morning Jacket guitarist and engineer Johnny Quaid. His second album Terminal Current is due for release on February 20th. Here’s the first single, the breezy sweet country sound of ‘Absolute Contingency’. Album pre-orders available HERE Continue reading
Calexico (primarily the duo of John Convertino and Joey Burns) have been kicking up desert dust together since 1996 with their distinctive blend of jazz, post-rock, country and Tex-Mex music. Their last album was Algiers (2012) and now they’ve announced that their new album The Edge Of The Sun will be released on April 14th via Anti-/City … Continue reading
Last week Norwegian space cowboys Dig Deeper released their new LP How You Spend Your Days and to accompany it there’s a video clip for the second single ‘Dreaming With Einar’. The band trade in spacious, widescreen music that draws equally from the worlds of alt-country and psychedelia, the single in particular bringing to mind Pink Floyd and … Continue reading
Lost Ragas debut album Phantom Ride (2013) crept on me slowly and it wasn’t until I saw them play it live that it really hit home how great their songs are and what a damn fine group of musicians they are. Fast forward to this week and the Melbourne band have released the first track from … Continue reading
Houndmouth have released a second track from their upcoming LP Little Neon Limelight which is due for release on March 16th via Rough Trade Records. Recorded in Nashville with producer Dave Cobb (Jamey Johnson, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Lindi Ortega) the album features eleven songs and is available for preorder at the usual digital stores and … Continue reading
Marlon Williams has released the clip for his latest single ‘Dark Child’. The track comes from his long-awaited debut album, due for release on April 24th. You can catch Williams touring NZ and Australia on the following dates: February 13th – Chicks Hotel, Dunedin February 14th – St Michael’s Church, Christchurch February 20th – Tuning … Continue reading
Jake Xerxes Fussell has a new album coming out via the Paradise of Bachelors label on Jan 27th. The self-titled LP is his debut release and was engineered by Mark Nevers and produced by William Tyler (solo, Lambchop) who also plays guitar on the the ten tracks. Other players on the record include Chris Scruggs (steel … Continue reading
Australian reissue label Raven Records knows the good stuff with back catalog reissues of artists such as The Byrds, Guy Clark, Chet Atkins, David Allan Coe and Jerry Jeff Walker. Now they’ve collected four of John Prine’s finest albums, recorded for Atlantic Records in the early 1970’s. Raven press release: In combining four brilliant albums … Continue reading
Sydney songwriter Roland Kay-Smith has a new album called Sailing By The Stars ready for release on January 30th via Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, Google Play. Below you can check out the clip for the first single ‘Lay Me Down’. Live Shows: 18th Jan at the Union Hotel with Peasant Moon and Crow Janes 1st Feb at … Continue reading
Ryley Walker’s 2014 album All Kinds Of You was a real favourite around here and so it’s great news to read he has a follow-up already recorded and set for release via Dead Oceans on March 31st. Preorder vinyl and CD HERE. Walker has released the title track Primrose Green for your listening pleasure and it shows him getting … Continue reading
Two of Melbourne’s finest exponents of contemporary alt-country music are Luke Sinclair of Raised By Eagles and solo artist Tracy McNeil. Both have released wonderful records with their respective bands and now the married couple have started to share some of the music they’ve been writing and performing as Bell St Delays. The first taste is … Continue reading
Yep, before we had a chance to realise the festive season was upon us it quickly departed, leaving us gazing forlornly or perhaps excitedly at the open musical prairie of 2015 laying before us. 2014 was a damn strong year for Americana releases and no doubt we’re in for another great twelve months of new music. … Continue reading
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