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I was just chatting with my friend Ian and he asked if I had heard of Damien Dempsey, so like a twit I said “nope” and he told me to rectify this omission in my musical appreciation. Actually he was a tad more forthright than that, but this as they say “is a family show” [...]

With a dark Louisianna voice and a guitar that howls out the blues, Kenny Wayne Shepard is keeping alive a tradition that began in the depths of Africa, traveled to the new world and rooted itself into the muddy soul of America. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band – Blue on Black (Live DC 4/22/07) His interpretation [...]

Pete Murray has a new album out. It’s called “Summer at Eureka” and listening to it for the last couple of days has convinced me that it is his best work to date. This album is a keeper. By the time Brisbane born Pete Murray released his independent 2002 debut album “The Game” he was [...]

Running on empty, that’s how I felt tonight when I started to write this post. Ah, I thought, take it easy and don’t be a pretender – because tender is the night and you still have to do the loadout. If none of the above set off little flags of recognition then I guess it [...]

Funny how things work out, for example I was listening to a really terrific band from the UK with the intention of posting about them for Monday morning. Down the bottom of their MySpace page however there was a warning that anybody who had Ray LaMontagne in their top 20 favourites need not bother putting [...]

Camila are a Latino trio from Mexico. They are a diverse group of talents who have joined together to form a a pop/rock ensemble that have sent an excited buzz through Spanish speaking Latin America. It’s no accident that this fashionably scuffy bunch of musicians have been successful given that the well structured pop songs [...]

Alejandro Lerner is an Argentine super pop musician. At school he learnt piano and his career began at the age of 17 when he was invited to play in a band with popular Argentine musician Raul Porchetto and his band. Lerners popularity rose when he formed his own band and began to write rock ballads. [...]