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Today’s artist will strike some of my friends as an odd one… it’s no surprise that I am not what you would call a “fan” of country. Indeed the sound of a steel guitar usually (but not always sends me running. And then there is Sara Storer, the latest in a select group of […]

I’ve had a really bad week - so sitting at the computer to write this Duggup was a chance to put everything aside and just immerse myself in some good music. As usual there was so much to choose from but Kurt Nilsen stopped me dead.
I know I did and you may too have reservations […]

As you drive through the suburbs or towns in the bush there are all these people and communities you can see through the window, you cant help but wonder what they do, how they live, it’s like driving through a huge art gallery full of snapshots and portraits and the odd performance piece. Fortunately for […]

Another serendipitous find this one, as I started listening to the title track “Only As The Day Is Long” from her new album I was hooked. This has it all razor sharp lyrics, gorgeous and simple production, nothing gets in the way of the song heading straight to your heart. Think back to early […]

Elana James just played at the Brunswick Music Festival here in Melbourne. The reason I know this is that I have had two friends ring me up and tell me how good the gig was.
This is what the Festival wrote about her….
Elana James is the just the beez kneez in Texas fiddle […]

As more and more artists discover MySpace, so too there are less and less Saturday Samples. I applaud this as a positive move because it is beyond me why anyone would bother to advertise product on the Internet and expect people to buy it if they’ve never heard or can’t hear it?

Thus another Saturday […]

Today’s track is a ripper, for a whole bunch of reasons. My favourite one is that if you are interested you get to hear the stages the song went through as it was created as the recording process moves along. (this assumes that like me, you actually are interested in stuff like that). So, […]