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Wyatt  Easterling - A Shot In The Dark - Goodbye Hello - Phoenix Rising Records   www.wyatteasterling.com/
Altan - No Ash Will Burn - The Widening Gyre - Compass Records   www.altan.ie/
Lucinda Williams - Burning Bridges - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone - Highway 20 Records  www.lucindawilliams.com/

The Howlin' Brothers - night and day - trouble - Readymade Records  www.thehowlinbrothers.com/
The Green House Band - Rosemary Lane - mirage - Market Square Music www.themusicindex.com/store/msquare/green_house_band.htm
Lucinda Williams - Cold Day In Hell - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone - Highway 20 Records  www.lucindawilliams.com/
Kate Campbell - Signs Following - Moonpie Dreams - Compass Records   www.katecampbell.com/

Wyatt  Easterling - Teach Me How To Say Goodbye - Goodbye Hello - Phoenix Rising Records   www.wyatteasterling.com/
Altan - Far Beyond Carrickfinn - The Widening Gyre - Compass Records   www.altan.ie/
Lucinda Williams - Everything But The Truth - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone - Highway 20 Records  www.lucindawilliams.com/

The Howlin' Brothers - I was wrong - trouble - Readymade Records  www.thehowlinbrothers.com/
The Green House Band - Annabel Lee - mirage - Market Square Music www.themusicindex.com/store/msquare/green_house_band.htm
Lucinda Williams - When I Look At The World  - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone - Highway 20 Records  www.lucindawilliams.com/
Kate Campbell - Moonpie Dreams - Moonpie Dreams - Compass Records   www.katecampbell.com/

Wyatt Easterling - "Growing up in Chapel Hill, NC, Easterling released his debut album, Both Sides of the Shore, on Moonlight Records (Warner Bros.) in 1981. With his album tucked under his arm, he moved to Nashville and began striving to make his way in the music business in whatever way he could. While looking for another record deal, he wrote for various song publishers. In 1990, he became head of A&R for Atlantic Records Nashville. That same year, he wrote and sang on "This Time I'm Takin' My Time" for Neal McCoy's album At This Moment. This collaboration launched more than 2 decades of gold and platinum winning releases with Easterling acting as songwriter, producer, executive and/or session player. Wyatt's partnership with Miles Copeland (The Police & Sting) Bugle Publishing Group and Firstars Management occupied him in the late '90s and early 2000s. Leaving Bugle/Firstars, Wyatt's next step was to work on his own writing with songs like his title track for Dierks Bentley's chart-topping, million-selling album Modern Day Drifter, followed by his his critically acclaimed album "Where This River Goes" released on High Horse Records on May 4, 2009." Artist's website

On his latest album everything is in alignment - the writing, the singing and the playing - superb!

Altan - long standing and cherished Irish trad/contemporary juggernaut expanding their repertoire on this album to include a Who's Who of American players such as Tim O'Brien, Alison Brown, Jerry Douglas, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Molsky... yer basic American music royalty :-)

Lucinda Williams - Critically acclaimed double album 12th release from  3 time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter from Lake Charles, LA. "[T]hough this doesn't always sound like an album where Williams is challenging herself musically, for a musician who has long believed in the power of nuance, this is an album that feels unerringly right for her, full of sweet and sour blues, acoustic pondering, and simple, bare bones rock & roll that slips into the groove with Williams' literate but unpretentious songs."  Mark Deming at AllMusic

The Howlin' Brothers - "The Howlin’ Brothers are a Nashville based string band composed of Ian Craft, Ben Plasse and Jared Green.  Anchored in a bed of old-time blues and bluegrass, their upbeat shows are heavy with original and traditional music, featuring the sounds of slide banjo, harmonica and old-time fiddle.  Sounding like what would happen if a bunch of Appalachian punk rockers formed a jug-band, The Howlin’ Brothers play with a ferocious energy that drags you in and finds you boogieing along in spite of yourself." Artists' website

The Green House Band -  ""English as tuppence", as the late Vivian Stanshall would have put it … This gathering of 1970s ‘cult’ folk/rock musicians and an award-winning theatrical arranger fronted by a beautiful young actress/singer forms the unusual nucleus of The Green House Band whose love for traditional songs and the art’s pioneering interpreters (Renbourn, Jansch et al) pays off with this classy debut album. The line-up includes former members of medieval rockers Gryphon; folk rockers Albion Band; and cult prog folk act Fuschia. Vocals are by Madeline Worrall, better known until now as a successful actress on stage and UK TV (‘Foyle’s War’, ‘The Midsomer Murders’), with the late American troubadour, Tim Rose guesting on ‘The Snows’.

The band’s take on classic songs such as this, ‘Blackwater Side’, ‘Rosemary Lane’, ‘Geordie’ and ‘Flash Company’ celebrate not only their tradition but settings in the vein of former interpreters such as Trees (‘The Garden Of Jane Delawney’, ‘On The Shore’) and Ireland’s obscure and cultish Mellow Candle (‘Swaddling Songs)."  Artists' website...

Kate Campbell - the splendid musical documenter of the lives and times down here in the sunny South... making a most welcomed return visit to Little Rock Folk Club on Sat Feb 28th 2015

 

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