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Category: Americana

  • Big Low. Just what I needed.

    Big Low “Old Macleay” (mp3) from “No Tears In Paradise” (Smoked Recordings) More On This Album Big Low “Captain No 1” (mp3) from “Ghost Hunt Migration” (Smoked Recordings) More On This Album Big Low “Sweet Rain” (mp3) from “The Junction of the Two Rivers” (Smoked Recordings) More On This Album Described as “Australian Alt. Country-Noir,…

  • Happy Birthday You

    Just a Friday teaser.  Enjoy. Jay Jay Pistolet “Always On My Way Back Home” (mp3) from “Happy Birthday You” (Stiff Records) More On This Album Visit his Myspace to order it here, come on people it has been out since Monday!  4 tracks, 5 dollars. Happy Birthday.

  • The Gunshy – I Gave Too Much Time To The Wine

    and other collected eps. So received my shiny new CD from The Gunshy last week.  Didn’t you?  If you didn’t, do you have a worthy excuse?  Go on, explain yourself. The Gunshy’s “I Gave Too Much Time To The Wine and other collected eps” is the most recent release from the good folks over at…

  • Frontier Ruckus – The Tower

    So I tend to obsess on artists I like, Frontier Ruckus being one of them.  Just so everyone knows, there was a lot of life prior to the latest release “The Orion Songbook”.  I most recently took a revisit to the first EP “I Am The Water You Are Pumping” when looking forward to the…

  • A Western Vinyl Playlist

    Sorry for no post yesterday, but I have a big one today (and inspired by yesterday and no posting…). Well yesterday I received an advance copy of the new J. Tillman – Vacilando Territory Blues from an online friend.  This led me to immediately start an all encompassing listening fest of my own.  So, I…

  • Auld Lang Syne

    Auld Lang Syne can be a bit of a raucous band for the Slowcoustic regulars, but sometimes some of the best toned down music comes from more up tempo artists, simply at 3/4 speed.  If you think of the classic Auld Lang Syne (the New Year’s eve song after which they are named), they would…

  • Frontier Ruckus – The Orion Songbook (2008)

    I have been trying to hold back on this post for a couple of weeks until it was closer to the album’s release (I don’t know why), but I have to post already!  So here we have Frontier Ruckus’ first full length album and it has been well worth the wait.  Spectacular down home traditional…

  • Blackbird Harmony Revisited – with interview

    Well this is a bit of a treat this week on Slowcoustic – the interview post!  I was lucky enough to get some questions in with John Statz below and now I actually have a follow up to my Blackbird Harmony post (and sister post here) with, you guessed it – some interview questions!  Even…

  • John Statz

    John Statz

    I find myself in a bit of bounty of good music lately – I know, there are worse things, but it can be overwhelming.  You end up listening to soo much that it is hard to actually listen, I mean really listen.  This is why I am posting on John Statz – I had a…

  • New on the ‘nets this week

    So I did it again, got all caught up in my life and ignored the blog on a Friday.  Sure there was the day job, sure there was a going away party for a colleague in a downtown hotel, sure I live about an hour drive from downtown.  This does not warrant a snub to…

  • Jeff Zentner – Hymns to the Darkness, and upcoming album alert.

    So we all know I can appreciate down-tempo music – whether it be indie, songwriter, Americana and yes even electronic.  When I get my hands on something good, whether it be by an suggestion from a friend, artist submission or found on another blog I will most likely latch on for keeps and try to…

  • Giving Thanks for Micah Blue Smaldone

    photo from 4volt So it is the long weekend for Canadian Thanksgiving and I am sitting around enjoying great coffee (new connection for beans) and really getting into some Micah Blue Smaldone.  As it inches towards the end of the year, I am mentally putting together my “best of 2008” list. Maybe it is the…