Katie Brianna released one of the best Americana albums in Australia last year. Dark Side Of The Morning is a record built on her wonderful voice that brings with it barrels of tears and heartache amid a certain uplifting resilience and strength. With wonderfully sympathetic instrumentation it’s a sweetly melancholic collection of songs that draws … Continue reading
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WILLIE NELSON: Bloody Mary Morning (live on ACL, 1974)
Austin City Limits has been running for forty years as a TV series and it continues to showcase the finest music across a range of genres. Americana gets a great look-in with recent shows including Dawes, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves and Dale Watson. Here’s Willie Nelson playing the show’s pilot … Continue reading
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SIX STRINGS: Dan Waters
Last year Dan Waters released his excellent solo LP La Vita E Bella to critical acclaim and he was rewarded with Best Country Album at the Age Music Victoria Awards. Waters has followed that up with a new EP under the name The Gulbransen Brothers, featuring Chad Mason of Wagons as his equal songwriting/sparring partner. Don’t Let The Music Stop … Continue reading
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LOST RAGAS ~ Phantom Ride video and tour
Lost Ragas are a new band based around the supremely talented Matt Walker, a songwriter, guitarist who I first discovered on his I Listen to the Night collaboration with Ashley Davies back in 1997. That was of course very much a blues-based record while this project marries the blues and country music. They released their … Continue reading
VIDEO: Mark Moldre ~ Everything I Need
Mark Moldre continues in his quest to release a clip for every song on his 2013 LP An Ear To The Earth and this could be his best yet. Filmed amid the mid-renovation bricks and tiles of bandmates Jamie and Scott Hutchings’ childhood home the video perfectly complements the percussive elements of the song. Continue reading
Alt-Country / Rock / Rockabilly / Videos
WATCH: Dave Favours ~ Linda Marie
Sydney songwriter Dave Favours is releasing his excellent new LP Wet Suburban Sunday this week and to accompany it he’s posted a great Jeff Siberry directed clip for the single Linda Marie featuring a Sasquatch and black and white footage of rivers, tunnels and train tracks. Continue reading
WATCH: Rosanne Cash ~ Live on KCRW
Rosanne Cash is currently doing the rounds of talk shows and radio sessions to promote her excellent new LP The River & The Thread. Here are two clips from a performance for KCRW at Apogee Studios. You can listen to the full session HERE Continue reading
WATCH: The Weeping Willows ~ Home for the Broken Soul
The Weeping Willows have today unveiled the clip for the third single taken from their LP ”Till The North Wind Blows’. Continue reading
WATCH: Jason Isbell’s live set for KEXP
Ahead of his Australian tour with Tift Merritt you can check out the 20 minute set Jason Isbell played last September at radio station KEXP in Seattle, WA. Songlist: Flying Over Water Live Oak Different Days Stockholm Continue reading
WATCH: Dan Waters ~ Guilt and Shame
Here’s the latest video from Dan Waters‘ acclaimed album La Vita E Bella which won Best Country Album at The Age Victoria Genre Awards last year. Ah, guilt and shame, two of the age-old corner posts of great country music. Continue reading
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WATCH: Fanny Lumsden & The Thrillseekers | Your Rattle & Your Roll
Fanny Lumsden and her band The Thrillseekers did a live session at Cleveland’s late in 2013. Here’s a great new song Your Rattle & Your Roll, gently overflowing with that magical melodicism that Lumsden seems to fill each song with. It’s set to be a big year for the band with plans to record and … Continue reading
VIDEO: Mark Moldre ~ I Don’t Know What’s Become of Her
Mark Moldre has released another video clip as part of his mission to release one for every track on his excellent 2013 LP An Ear To The Earth. Gloriously shot in black & white by Darren Cross at Bernstein Studios, the song is the tale of a lost soul, lyrically magnificent, poetic and rich in … Continue reading
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NEW MUSIC: Jep and Dep ~ Confide In Me [Video]
Jep and Dep are Sydney duo Jessica Cassar and Darren Cross who have been working up a reputation as a wonderful live act over the last year or so. I’ve caught them a couple of times now and they really do possess that special musical connection and that balance of sweetness and grit that typifies … Continue reading
WATCH: Fanny Lumsden & the Thrillseekers ~ Sea Elephant School
Fanny Lumsden has today released the video clip for her recent single Sea Elephant School, filmed at Tooma in the Southern NSW region of the Upper Murray. It is a wonderful video with footage of Lumsden and her sisters riding horses across the landscape amid shots of the band and various ephemera. Upon the release of … Continue reading
Country Covers #4 – Fanny Lumsden chooses a favourite
Coming up on Sunday October 27th is an afternoon/evening of Sydney (and Newcastle) artists covering some of their favourite country songs plus they’ll play a few of their own. Inner Western 2 (FB Event) is happening at the Petersham Bowling Club from 2pm. Ahead of the show we’ve asked some of the artists appearing to choose a favourite … Continue reading
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