Tag: "Country music"

The Clarkefield Music Festival Announces Its First Acts
0 Comments. 1,478 Views. Posted 19 Dec 2012 @ 12:25pm.
Following a successful debut last year, The Clarkfield Music Festival returns for its second year of fine country music. Last year's bill saw the likes of Nick Barker, Kim Salmon and Dead River Deeps perform; this year The Toot Toot Toots, Charles Jenkins and the Zhivagos and the charismatic Tim Rogers will be performing.   The Clarkefield Music Festival is a fundraiser for build homes, and... Read More
Neil Young & Crazy Horse : Oh Susannah
0 Comments. 769 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 2:24pm.
  Young’s first album in nine years is a collection of folk rock tunes – traditional songs reworked in a Yard Birds fashion, judging by the single. In this bizarre version of Oh Suzanna, you can just make out the line, "I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee," but it bears no resemblance to the twanging hillbilly bluegrass of the original. I’m not sure it’s improved, neither. There’s a... Read More
Johnny Gibson : Endless Search For Gold
0 Comments. 1,182 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 10:39am.
  Every now and then a drummer steps out from beyond the cloak of their drumkit and reveals themselves as both songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Johnny Gibson, drummer for a host of Melbourne staples; including The Currency, Streams Of Whiskey and Swedish Magazines has done just that, presenting to the world his first solo album, Endless Search For Gold.Opener Back Roads is... Read More
Quarry Mountain Dead Rats : Bloodhound Killed My Squeeze Box
0 Comments. 861 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 9:51am.
  Melbourne’s Quarry Mountain Dead Rats is a bluegrass collective that drawls and fiddles at a cracking pace. Their banjo and mandolin getting a decent workout on Bloodhound Killed My Squeeze Box, a song about a troublesome dog with a long face who slobbers all over the newspaper and knocks over drinks. Not a massive fan of songs about dogs, to be honest, except where the dogs are disguised... Read More
Tina C: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
0 Comments. 593 Views. Posted 28 Mar 2012 @ 1:02pm.
In Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, Tina C makes her debut appearance at the Malthouse Theatre tackling the heavy issue of Australian land rights through country music and unavoidable audience participation. From the start of her lecture/story-telling/concert/comedy show she refuses to shy away from the topic - "Sorry, no apologies!"      The performance seems to be constantly... Read More
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0 Comments. 2,398 Views. Posted 13 Mar 2012 @ 2:35pm.
  For the first five years of their existence, the Gavin Rossdale-led British rock act Bush had to be referred to in Canada as Bushx.  This wasn’t simply an act of grunge tomfoolery meant to poke fun at the inhabitants of the Great White North. Instead, the name Bush was a matter of intellectual property, as Domenic Troiano led a Toronto-based jazzed-up rock outfit in the ‘70s... Read More
Ryan Adams : Chains Of Love
0 Comments. 659 Views. Posted 7 Mar 2012 @ 9:39am.
  Lifted from his thirteenth album, Chains of Love is a soft, string-driven country ballad that will remind you, if you’ve forgotten, exactly what’s wrong with Ryan Adams – most of his music is limp adult contemporary pop. This tune, along with its unfortunate title, is bland and soulless. Read More
Ben Sollee
0 Comments. 1,507 Views. Posted 5 Mar 2012 @ 1:35pm.
  Ben Sollee grew up in the state of Kentucky. Technically considered part of the American south, Kentucky is a state without a significant profile outside of the United States. To some, it’s known as the original hometown of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who spent his formative years in Louisville, Kentucky; for those with an interest in country and folk music, Kentucky is... Read More
Busby Marou : 5 Rocks
0 Comments. 858 Views. Posted 22 Feb 2012 @ 10:23am.
  Rockhampton duo Busby Marou toured with Dolly Parton and Pete Murray last year, then toddled off to record this bland but inoffensive country pop single. The opening guitar melody is crisp and sweet, but the minute the strained, overly earnest vocal kicked in (Tracy Chapman-esque, but without the tragedy), they lost me. Way too sweet.   Read More
Delaney Davidson : Bad Luck Man
0 Comments. 1,022 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 11:49am.
  Delaney Davidson lives the proverbial peripatetic lifestyle. Born in New Zealand, Davidson travels the world playing his guitar, imbibing the local culture and transposing his idiosyncratic observations into country garage tunes. If Davidson was American, he’d be prone to jingoistic hubris; as a New Zealander, Davidson’s narratives are dripping with pathos, irony and the odd splash of... Read More
60 Seconds With... Indigo And The Bear
0 Comments. 1,440 Views. Posted 24 Jan 2012 @ 9:50pm.
  So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? We are Indigo And The Bear. Between the four of us, we play bass guitar, acoustic guitar, keys, vocals and violin. We're answering these questions in a stunning display of collaborative penmanship.     Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? And a... Read More
Zac Brown Band: You Get What You Give
0 Comments. 1,720 Views. Posted 9 Jan 2012 @ 9:11am.
Too many people say they don’t like country music. But, perhaps city people just don’t get enough exposure to modern country. Zac Brown Band is more like rock-pop than anything else anyway – his evocative story-telling and ever so slightly twangy vocals are the only signs that his latest album, You Get What You Give, is actually a country release.   Further proof though is As She’s Walking... Read More
Blitzen Trapper: American Goldwing
0 Comments. 891 Views. Posted 6 Jan 2012 @ 10:49am.
  For me, the genre of Americana that developed in the 1970s is defined by three tracks from that era: Bob Dylan’s All The Tired Horses, Canned Heat’s On The Road Again, and the ultimate track from this genre, America’s Horse With No Name. All three of these tracks evoke the wide-open spaces of the United State’s Midwest and the culture of a wandering troubadour. On American Goldwing... Read More
The Hello Morning : Stone Cold Lover
0 Comments. 1,378 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 9:11am.
The debut single from Melbourne act The Hello Mornings is excellent - a hearty, pumping alt country style tune in the vein of My Morning Jacket. The verse is soulful but energetic; the chorus crashes in with a sweet rebel yell. It's quite a clever thing. Made me sit up straight and take a deep breath. Read More
Danny Widdicombe : Find Someone
0 Comments. 1,521 Views. Posted 2 Dec 2011 @ 9:03am.
Queensland-based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songsmith and charismatic live performer Danny Widdicombe is an integral part of entertaining ARIA Award nominated roots combo The Wilson Pickers. He has also played guitar with luminaries such as Bernard Fanning, Karl Broadie and fellow Wilson Picker Andrew Morris, toured Oz as part of Tim Rogers' Temperance Union and released the solo albums... Read More
Q&A: Sweet Jean
0 Comments. 1,381 Views. Posted 2 Dec 2011 @ 8:55am.
So then, what's the band name and what do you 'do' in the band? We're called Sweet Jean and we both sing and write the songs. We also play guitar, banjo, autoharp, piano, harmonica, and tambourine. Sports - not so much.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?   Often people say that we sound like we're brother and... Read More
Tex Perkins and the Band of Gold : Tex Perkins and the Band of Gold
0 Comments. 1,984 Views. Posted 23 Nov 2011 @ 10:53am.
A long time ago in a musical and social galaxy far away, there was a tall, wiry kid from Brisbane called Greg Perkins. Greg loved his country music, so much so that his friends took to calling him Tex. When Perkins moved south to Sydney to escape the boredom and draconian political atmosphere of Joh Bjelke-Peterson's conservative government, Perkins took both his love with country music and his... Read More
The Glorious : Out of My Command
0 Comments. 691 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 12:46pm.
Out of My Command is a bittersweet alt country single by local three three-piece The Glorious. David Jon Mather's voice is beautiful, turning effortlessly between aching high notes and trembling mid tones as the spare notes of twanging steel guitar give the song a stoic poignancy. Simple but effective. Read More
Jed Rowe Band Vs Jenny Biddle
0 Comments. 1,775 Views. Posted 3 Nov 2011 @ 7:56am.
JENNY BIDDLE INTERVIEWS JED ROWE:   You've just recorded a new album with guitar legend Jeff Lang, tell us about the process of recording with Jeff?   We went for a pretty live sound with an old school approach, recording directly to analogue tape in Jeff's studio rather than to computer, so the tactic was to work the songs out really well beforehand and then try to catch some... Read More
Bellusira Vs Engine Three Seven
0 Comments. 1,061 Views. Posted 27 Oct 2011 @ 10:16am.
HEY BRO... HOW IS LIFE IN THE E37 CAMP? All's well my friend. Currently hatching a plot for the release of our up coming DVD, film clip and writing for the new album.   YOU ARE A PRETTY DYNAMIC FRONT PERSON, WHO WERE THE TWO MAIN FRONT PERSON'S THAT MADE YOU THE PERFORMER THAT YOU ARE TODAY?   Firstly my Dad. I started touring the South Australian country music festivals with him... Read More
Johnny Gibson : 3:45 To Norman
0 Comments. 1,087 Views. Posted 26 Oct 2011 @ 2:51pm.
Tassie-born singer-songwriter Johnny Gibson sounds awfully young, and writes lyrics like a high schooler, always putting the most simple and obvious foot forward. It’s not bad necessarily; it’s just simple and obvious, which suits his chugging country rock sound. He’s not a natural singer, nasal and straining, but his ineptness is kind of endearing. Read More
60 Seconds With... Tristen Bird
0 Comments. 909 Views. Posted 21 Oct 2011 @ 9:31am.
So then, what's the band name and what do you 'do' in the band? My name is Tristen Bird; I am a country/roots singer songwriter. I write my own songs, sing, play banjo and guitars and record my own music.   W hat do you reckon people will say you sound like? Hmm I feel a bit big for my boots to say it but I get a lot of comments that my music lives between Neil Young and Hank Williams.... Read More
Single Of The Week [No.1] - Texture Like Sun : Bottle
0 Comments. 2,249 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 2:04pm.
A brooding, snapping roots rock tune from local singer-songwriter Texture Like Sun (real name Mark Pearl). The track features a silky male vocal melody and superb production by Countbounce of TZU, with clever layers of acoustic guitar and banjo, whistling and a punchy rhythm section. Surprisingly good. There's a slick video that goes with this track and Pearl is a total crumpet, in case that's... Read More
Jeff Lang : Carried in Mind
0 Comments. 1,345 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2011 @ 8:47am.
Jeff Lang has been described as "the godfather of an Australia-based back-to-basics blues movement." He's a brilliant storyteller and his voice has a reminiscence of Neil Young when delicate, and John Fogarty when elevated, which, however, is rare on this album. Sonically soulful yet lyrically haunting at times, like walking down to the river barefoot to wash away your sins, knowing full well you... Read More
Davidson Brothers: Here To Stay
0 Comments. 1,570 Views. Posted 22 Sep 2011 @ 9:36am.
Patrons of Gippsland born bluegrass band The Davidson Brothers can enjoy a double dose of solace after hard nights on dance floors. The duo repair ruptured romances in high lonesome heartache songs My Heart Can’t Believe My Eyes and Find You.   And if fans suffer back injuries after 180 bpm banjo instrumental OMFG there’s instant relief at hand – fiddling banjo ace Dr Hamish Davidson... Read More
Incubus Announce Australian Tour
0 Comments. 2,588 Views. Posted 15 Sep 2011 @ 11:35am.
The excitement that I'm currently feeling for this is unsurpassed by pretty much any other level of excitement that I have ever felt before.   Multi-platinum Californian-based alt-funk rockers Incubus will head down under next February for a national tour in support of their seventh studio album, If Not Now, When? Having already teared up arenas around the US, kicking off with a sold-out... Read More
Julian Abrahams From Mustered Courage
0 Comments. 1,994 Views. Posted 6 Sep 2011 @ 2:29pm.
Who are you and what are you doing here?   I'm Julian Abrahams. I flatpick the shit out of the acoustic guitar 'til my wrist hurts, sing some harmonies 'til Nick says I don't suck and write some tunes until someone says they like one. W hat do you reckon people will say you sound like?   Now that banjos and mandolins are 'cool' again I think we're gonna get the Mumford and Sons... Read More
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Tour
0 Comments. 1,349 Views. Posted 6 Sep 2011 @ 8:39am.
Country music royalty Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have just announced their first-ever venture out of North America, and down to Australian shores.  Separately, they've made their own individualistic, unique marks on the history of country music and together their hypnotic duets and ability to work off each other have earned them a serious reputation.  It's been a long five years since... Read More
Jordie Lane : Blood Thinner
0 Comments. 2,230 Views. Posted 19 Aug 2011 @ 9:11am.
When Melbourne singer-songwriter Jordie Lane sings "I'm going back, back in time / To where hearts were true, true and kind" with such yearning in Diamond Ring, we follow him there. Transformative experiences travelling through the Californian desert and staying in Room 8 of the Joshua Tree Inn (where his hero Gram Parsons died) have instilled Lane's sophomore album, Blood Thinner, with a... Read More
Citizen Jia Li
0 Comments. 1,993 Views. Posted 4 Aug 2011 @ 9:53am.
It's no easy feat trying to retell someone elses story, let alone if you don't know that person. Or that person doesn't actually exist but you want to make them believable. Or that person is of a completely different national background and gender to you. Such is the case with Citizen Jia Li – a unique pop culture film detailing the hardship and struggles of being an underprivileged citizen, all... Read More
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