Archive for the ‘Country’ Category

Ian Bland – Drifter

By • Apr 6th, 2008

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 [...]



Sera Cahoone – Only As The Day Is Long

By • Mar 25th, 2008

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 Lucinda [...]



Elana James

By • Mar 20th, 2008

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 music; [...]



Third Road Home

By • Mar 15th, 2008

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 [...]



The Desert Mothers – Nowhere Motel

By • Feb 22nd, 2008

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, if [...]



Neko Case – Hold On Hold On

By • Dec 20th, 2007

Artist: Neko Case Website: www.myspace.com/nekocase or www.nekocase.com/music/ Track Name: Hold On Hold On Playback: flash Download?: no Hold On Hold on comes from Neko Case’s 2006 album “Fox Confessor Brings The Flood”. I first heard it a while ago on Last Fm and was hooked by her voice and her guitar player. The guitars sound [...]



Jo Kelly Stephenson – Interview

By • Nov 20th, 2007

Artist: Jo Kelly Stephenson Website: www.jokellystephenson.com/ Track Name: Deep End (there is a live to air recording at the bottom of the article) Playback: mp3/flash Jo Kelly Stephenson has just completed her full length album ’I See Flowers, You See Cars, featuring Mike Rudd, Bill Putt and Peter ‘Robbo’ Robertson from Spectrum (Ill Be Gone), [...]