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Lost Bayou Ramblers Spin-Off, Michot’s Melody Makers Issue Debut With ‘Blood Moon’ (album stream + interview)

PopMatters Staff / 24 September 2018

With Lost Bayou Ramblers approaching a possible hiatus, lead singer and fiddler Louis Michot brings us a whole new batch of fun and fiddlin' that marries the historical to the contemporary.

Mixed Media/Music

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Pierce Through the Darkness with “You Can’t Steal My Shine” (premiere)

Jonathan Frahm / 20 September 2018

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band deliver a hand-clapping, foot-stomping hymnal with "You Can't Steal My Shine".

Mixed Media/Music

Roxanne Potvin Takes Control with “All It Was” (premiere)

Jason Schneider / 14 September 2018

Canadian singer/songwriter Roxanne Potvin's new EP brings together a wide range of roots-pop influences, as on "All It Was".

Music/Reviews

Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore Offer a Tour of the Country with ‘Downey to Lubbock’

Justin Cober-Lake / 14 June 2018

The invigorating blend of traditional blues, country, folk, and more on Downey to Lubbock shows Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore finding common ground.

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Lincoln Durham: Revelations of a Mind Unraveling

PopMatters Staff / 23 March 2016

Touched by the Southern gothic as well as the big city idea of it, Lincoln Durham proves himself ready for wider attention on this latest and greatest.

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Sugarcane Jane: Dirt Road’s End

Lee Zimmerman / 6 May 2015

Dirt Road’s End is a guidebook that simulates a fusion of past and present, as interpreted by two musicians blessed with a clear-eyed perspective and the ability to bring it all about.

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Steph Cameron: Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady

Zachary Houle / 22 September 2014

Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady is the kind of platter that, if all goes to plan, is going to make Steph Cameron a little less sad-eyed and lonesome when she takes the stage at a concert hall near you.

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roots music

Lost Bayou Ramblers Spin-Off, Michot’s Melody Makers Issue Debut With ‘Blood Moon’ (album stream + interview)

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Pierce Through the Darkness with “You Can’t Steal My Shine” (premiere)

Roxanne Potvin Takes Control with “All It Was” (premiere)

Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore Offer a Tour of the Country with ‘Downey to Lubbock’

Lincoln Durham: Revelations of a Mind Unraveling

Sugarcane Jane: Dirt Road’s End

Steph Cameron: Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady

Old Time Machine: Old Time Machine

In the Heart of Country Music in the Heart of the Country

Pine Hill Haints: Welcome to the Midnight Opry

Scott Miller & the Commonwealth: Reconstruction

The Marleys and Mind Control

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