Lindi Ortega’s Tin Star was one of last year’s finer Americana albums after winning the Roots Artist or Group of the Year category at the Canadian Country Music Association Awards earlier this month she’s released a great new clip for the single ‘Lived And Died Alone’, rich with Mexican imagery and iconography. Continue reading
Gretta Ziller has already generated a great deal of critical and industry acclaim in the 2013 Telstra Road to Discovery Grand Finals at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, as well as her 2013 TSA/APRA New Songwriter of the Year award. Now she has released her debut EP Hell’s Half Acre which captures the essence and graceful … Continue reading
Later this month the new documentary film Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts is officially launched at a screening in Nashville ( Bongo After Hours Theatre on Monday 15th Sept) prior to the Americana Music Festival. The film traces the career arc of the country music singer/songwriter who has been rejected by record labels, had his songs recorded … Continue reading
Mark Moldre continues with his mission to make a clip for each and every track on his excellent An Ear to the Earth album from last year. This time it’s the turn of the rattling, skeletal knees-up of ‘Bone Orchard’ with its banjo limbs and junkyard spine that swings from a blues stomp to a … Continue reading
Jenny Queen released her very good album Small Town Misfits earlier this year which successfully married country pop and alt-country. Now she has released a clip for the second single ‘Let Her Go’ with its infectious sweet chorus. Read our album review Continue reading
Hurray For The Riff Raff played a show as part of the Lincoln Center’s ‘American Songbook’ series back in April this year. With the joys of the internet and the generosity of the Center you too can experience the set in full and in HD. Continue reading
Wagons have been tearing it up across the USA on the back of their new album Acid Rain & Sugar Cane and now they’ve returned to Australia and put together another run of live dates through Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in the coming months. Also below is the claymation video clip for the new … Continue reading
Justin Townes Earle’s new album Single Mothers is just around the corner (Sept 9th) and here’s the first video clip to come from it, ‘Time Shows Fools’ featuring Justin hanging out in a budget motel room with a long-legged female companion. Continue reading
Hannah Aldridge is a new discovery for me, even though the Muscle Shoals native released her debut album Razor Wire back in May this year. Aldridge is the daughter of Alabama Music Hall of Famer, Walt Aldridge, who is one of the most prolific songwriters of the modern music era having written countless Number One and Top … Continue reading
Melbourne band Eaten By Dogs released their self-titled debut album via Black Hats Rackets a few weeks ago and yesterday they posted the clip for its second single ‘Fallen Not Broken’. I like what I hear in this track and also the first single ‘If it Ain’t Killing You, it’s Sure Killing Me’ which you can … Continue reading
![VIDEO: Darren Cross ~ Wild and Free [Premiere]](https://posttowire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1609743_475643009204757_7143398872796271318_n.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "VIDEO: Darren Cross ~ Wild and Free [Premiere]")
Ahead of Darren Cross’ EP release show tomorrow night at Django Bar in Marrickville, Sydney we are excited to have the new clip for the EP’s second single ‘Wild and Free’. It’s our personal favourite from the No Damage EP, released earlier this week, drifting along on a melancholic streak with some great lines about … Continue reading
Los Angeles-based Mia Dyson recently released the excellent LP Idyllwild featuring the first single and candidate for song of the year ‘When We’re Older‘. Now she’s released a video for the title track and announced she’ll be heading back to Australia for a run of dates this October. Wednesday, October 1: Live at Lizottes (solo), … Continue reading
The story behind Corb Lund’s eight album involves a trip with his band the Hurtin’ Albertans down from Canada to Memphis’ legendary Sun Studio for a completely live recording session over two nights. That approach has certainly reaped rewards with the album sounding raw and alive. There is a real sense of the players bouncing … Continue reading
Kasey Chambers has released the first single from new album Bittersweet that comes out at the end of August. Below you can watch the black and white clip for ‘Wheelbarrow’, the upbeat and grittier than normal track for Chambers. Continue reading
My new discovery of the day is Mary Roth aka HT Heartache who has just released her new album Sundowner. This is what I terms country soul, laden with melancholic waltzes, hazy shimmering guitars and reverb-laden shuffling drums as the backdrop for Roth’s late night sultry voice. Check out the clip for the single ‘Cowboy Poetry’ … Continue reading
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