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Album review: DIXIE DREGS – Dregs Of The Earth, Unsung Heroes, Industry Standard (reissue)

Posted on October 28, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

BGO Records [Release date 06.10.14] www.bgo-records.com OK. I own up. I thought Dixie Dregs might have been another Poco or Flying Burrito Brothers. Yes, I knew that this was Steve Morse’s first major calling card, but even though liking his … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALVIN STARDUST – Alvin

Posted on October 23, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Conehead UK [Release date 01.12.14] It must be difficult working with an “established” artist who hasn’t made an album for 30 years. Which direction do you go in? Do you leave the past behind? Do you embrace the past? In … Continue reading →

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Album review: JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE – Single Mothers

Posted on October 5, 2014 by jason

Loose [Released 29.09.14] Justin Townes Earle has led an interesting life that’s for sure, from stints in rehab through to a revolving door with record labels. He is also the son of legendary country artist Steve Earle, although as the … Continue reading →

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Album review: LARKIN POE – Kin

Posted on September 26, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

RH Music [Release date 25.08.14] Having lost all sense of direction on their last release – The Sound Of The Ocean Sound with Thom Hell in 2013 – you wondered whether sisters Rebecca and Megan Poe were destined for obscurity. … Continue reading →

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News: THE RISING play exclusive session for Get Ready to ROCK! on Sunday 7 September

Posted on September 4, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Irish pop-rockers The Rising are featured ‘In Session for GRTR!’ on Sunday 7 September at 21:00 GMT, playing tracks from their new album ‘Coming Home’. (The session is repeated on Tuesday 9 September at 16:00 and Thursday 11 September at … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: JULIA HENNING, SARAH BORGES, JENNIE DEVOE, GIRLS,GUNS AND GLORY

Posted on August 20, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

JULIA HENNING Fledgling (www.juliahenning.com) In days gone by, record companies would sift the wheat from the chaff and, generally speaking, you got a fairly finished product. But in the digital age it’s every man, or woman, for him / herself … Continue reading →

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Gig review: NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE, British Summer Time Festival, Hyde Park, 12 July 2014

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Davoski

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Hyde Park, 12 July 2014

How typical of the idiosyncratic, sometimes curmudgeonly, always unique Neil Young to amble on stage and effectively jam for five minutes with his band before turning to the audience and uttering his first lyric. Trends ebb and flow, fashions swell … Continue reading →

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Album review: HANNAH ALDRIDGE – Razor Wire

Posted on April 25, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Trodden Black Ent. [Release date 13.05.14] ‘Dark Americana’ is how Hannah Aldridge – daughter of esteemed Muscle Shoals/ Nashville songwriter and producer Walt Aldridge – describes her gritty, uncompromising debut. Recorded in analogue (naturally) in Nashville (where else?) she’s backed … Continue reading →

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Album review: MATT ANDERSEN – Weightless

Posted on April 24, 2014 by petefeenstra

True North [Release date 14.04.14] Produced by former Blasters sax player and Los Lobos producer Steve Berlin, ‘Weightless’ puts the emphasis squarely on songs, catchy hooks and a subtle sonic landscape that nestles Matt Andersen’s emotive baritone vocal. Released by … Continue reading →

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Album review: MODERN EARL – Hot Damn!

Posted on April 23, 2014 by petefeenstra

Modern Earl/Christopher Hudson [Release date 23.01.14] While the terms ‘kick ass’ and ‘southern country rock’ aren’t necessarily antithetical, they fail to fuse or spark on Modern Earl’s ‘Hot Damn!’ I’m sure this German exiled American southern country rock band do … Continue reading →

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Album review: ULTAN CONLON – Songs Of Love So Cruel

Posted on April 23, 2014 by petefeenstra

Darksideout [Release date 09.06.14] The fact that the ‘Songs Of Love So Cruel’ dominates the CD sleeve tells you all you need to know about Ultan Conlon’s mindset, on an album full of enduring relationship and love songs. He treads … Continue reading →

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Quick Plays: THE SPECTACLE, LIMB, SCREAM ARENA, STALA & SO, JS TOLAR, DISTANT PAST

Posted on March 26, 2014 by david.wilson

Album review: THE SPECTACLE – Traitors Doforit records ( Release date – out now) I don’t know a great deal about this lot other than they are from Texas and that their blend of stoner rock and grindcore is as … Continue reading →

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Quick Plays: HEAVY METAL NINJAS, TIDE, KATIE COLE

Posted on February 21, 2014 by david.wilson

HEAVY METAL NINJAS – Interstellar Abduction Warner Music [Release date – out now] Heavy Metal Ninjas hail not from Japan as you might expect but from New Zealand. Lead by virtuoso guitarist Richie Allan, this instrumental six piece are here … Continue reading →

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Album review: ROSCO LEVEE AND THE SOUTHERN SLIDE – Get It While You Can

Posted on January 2, 2014 by petefeenstra

Red Train Records Records [Release date 27.01.14] ‘Get It While You Can’ wrestles with the common problem of a Brit band trying to sound authentic on material that evokes the deep south with some shit kicking roots rock. Rosco leads … Continue reading →

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Album review: SUSAN CATTANEO – Haunted Heart

Posted on December 3, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Jersey Girl Music [Release date 20.01.14] We’ve been impressed at GRTR! by Cattaneo’s previous releases, and her fourth album Haunted Heart continues the good work. The warm honeyed vocals of previous releases are still there, as is range of styles … Continue reading →

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Album review: ASHLEIGH FLYNN – A Million Stars

Posted on September 25, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Sheryl Crow’s got a new album out soon, but judging by the lead single it’s going to be slushy, sentimental pap. Shame, as she used to be one of the leading singer songwriters who could comfortably straddle the country/rock divide. … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: KAYLEIGH LEITH, KIMMIE RHODES, BAND OF SISTERS, THE BEAUBOWBELLES

Posted on September 14, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

KAYLEIGH LEITH This Woman Looking for a Nashville ‘new country’ sound on her second album, young American singer songwriter Kayleigh Leith turned to one of Nashville’s top songwriters Rob Crosby (Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride). Her debut album Miles Away (2011) … Continue reading →

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Album review: DANA FUCHS – Bliss Avenue

Posted on July 22, 2013 by petefeenstra

Ruf [Release date 22.07.13] If blues is too often predicated on the tried and tested theme of: ‘my baby done me wrong’; then Dana Fuchs cleverly extends such familiar subject matter from an autobiographical source and into universal themes that we … Continue reading →

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Album review: AOIFE O’DONOVAN – Fossils

Posted on July 13, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Yep Roc [Release date 24.06.13] Aoife (pronounced Ee-fuh)’s debut solo album at the age of 30 is already making something of a splash on the other side of the pond. With a wealth of experience already under her belt as … Continue reading →

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Album review: MADISON VIOLET – Come As You Are Live

Posted on July 13, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

True North Records [Release date 01.07.13] Released on both DVD and CD formats, Come As You Are Live captures Madison Violet – Canadian country / folk due Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac – at a sold out date in Koln, … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE WYNNTOWN MARSHALS – The Long Haul

Posted on June 14, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Wynntown Recordings [Release date 15.07.13] Whether their album title is a play on The Eagles’ last long player of the 1970′s or not, there are distinct similarities in style between The Eagles West Coast country rock sound and that of … Continue reading →

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Album review: SLAID CLEAVES – Still Fighting The War

Posted on June 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

Music Road Records [Release date 01.07.13] Slaid Cleaves is an Americana singer-songwriter who pens insightful story telling and relationship songs of which there are several. You may wonder if there’s still an audience for the troubadour in these post modern … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE WESTERN SIZZLERS – For Ol’ Times Sake

Posted on May 18, 2013 by petefeenstra

Roar Hide Records [Release date: 20.05.13] ‘Unfinished Business’, the penultimate track on The Western Sizzlers ‘For Ol’ Times Sake’, neatly summarises self exiled British musical maverick Kevin Jennings’s situation. A former catalyst for the Georgia Satellites (he got them signed … Continue reading →

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Album review: I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. – Mystery Drug

Posted on May 3, 2013 by petefeenstra

Blue Rose Records [Release date: 01.05.13] Alt-country outfit I See Hawks In L.A. are “dabblers” says their guitarist Paul Lacques. “There really are about 20 different ways to chop up country roots music”, he adds, while singer Rob Waller summarizes … Continue reading →

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Album review: TREETOP FLYERS – The Mountain Moves

Posted on April 3, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Loose Music [Release date 29.04.13] Having won the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition in 2011, and released two well received singles – ‘Things Will Change’ and ‘It’s About Time’, 2013 sees the release of the London based five-piece’s debut album on … Continue reading →