American country artist Robbie Fulks is huge in small circles here in Australia. Active since the late 80s as a singer, guitarist and writer, he’s the author of insurgent country classics, heart-stopping ballads, honky tonk […]
It seems hard to imagine now but the first Crowded House album almost tanked in Australia. Known as The Mullanes (Neil’s middle name) until not long before release, the trio had to emerge from the […]
Andy Fairweather Low is possibly one of those names that doesn’t truly register with many. And yet, this guy from Wales is without doubt one of the most important and significant musicians of a generation. […]
25-27 November, Queenscliff, Victoria Tickets sold out for the first time in the Queenscliff Music Festival’s 20 year history. But organisers haven’t sold out in any commercial or artistic compromise of the unique event. They’ve […]
FLAMING CHEESE/PLANET CO. Blues Taking their name from a Little Walter song, Florida-based Backtrack Blues Band have been performing together continuously since 1980. Lead singer/harmonica player Sonny Charles is the band’s chief songwriter, Kid Royal […]
ABC Radio National’s long-running late-evening radio program The Planet is to be axed from the 2017 schedule, along with other music shows on the network, including The Inside Sleeve, which currently occupies the weekday afternoon […]
On the Friday night of the 2016 Mullumbimby Music Festival, Matt Andersen, the blues man with the power of coal miner and the softness of a mouse, said “We’re telling stories all weekend so you […]
November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016 Mose Allison, who died on November 15, aged 89, was a singularly original US blues/jazz piano troubadour. Always something of a maverick, he started out as a kid […]
April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016 Leon Russell passed on Sunday November 13, 2016, aged 74, in the country music capital, Nashville, Tennessee. Instantly recognisable with his enormous, seemingly unruly shock of latterly grey […]
Cairns Convention Centre, November 26, 2013 Seven words are all that’s required to explain the worldwide phenomenon that Leonard Cohen in concert has become, and they came from the mouth of the man himself early […]
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