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Seasick SteveSeasick Steve | I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most Of It Left (CD Regular)
I Started Out With Nothin'... is the follow-up album to his surprise-hit album Dog House Music that he recorded in his kitchen and released in 2006 on the Bronzerat label. Seasick Steve has played in Lightnin' Hopkins' and John Lee Hooker's bands, as well as also playing in Modest Mouse's touring line-up.
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Blundell, James | Portrait Of A Man (CD Regular)
The follow-up to 2007’s Golden Guitar, ARIA and APRA nominated Ring Around The Moon, Portariat Of A Man is the 10th album released by Blundell during his stellar career. Featuring contributions from Lee Kernaghan, Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties Anything) and Felicity Urquhart, the album was once again produced by Graham Thompson (producer of hit albums by Adam Brand, Melinda Schneider and The Sunny Cowgirls).
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Olson, Mark & Gary Louris | Ready For the Flood (CD Regular)
Legendary JAYHAWKS co-founders together for first time since 1995. Stunning duo album produced by Black Crowe Chris Robinson.
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Parr, Charlie | 1922 (CD Regular)
Features ‘1922 Blues’ ... that song from the Vodafone ad where the guy folds up his stylish apartment, including sleeping girlfriend, and puts it in his pocket. Most people don’t care about musical categories or trends – pop/alternative/nu-folk/emo/electro. You can call it whatever you like, but ask around, and most people just care about whether music is good, or not.
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C.w. Stoneking | Jungle Blues (CD Regular)
C.W. Stoneking returns with a new collection of original tunes, Jungle Blues. Inspired in part by his amazing experiences as a survivor of a shipwreck off Africa's West Coast in 1998, it draws on the blues of the Southern U.S.A., calypso music of Trinidad, jungle jazz of the 1920s, and hillbilly music of the 1930s for a musical journey into a heart of darkness
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Williams, Lucinda | Little Honey (CD Regular)
Little Honey mixes country, R & B and blues-rock elements with adventurous aplomb. The disc gets an added octane boost from the powerful chemistry between the musicians, primarily drawn from Williams’ latest road band (now collectively known as Buick 6) - includes bassist David Sutton, Eels veterans Butch Norton and Chet Lyster as well as longtime collaborator Doug Pettibone.
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Holland, Jolie | The Living and the Dead (CD Regular)
On this, her third studio album, Jolie Holland ranges far and wide, adding to her unique take on folk and country and jazz that other distinctly American articulation, rock n roll. "I love rock and roll, but I think it was hard for me to trust its motives until now," says Jolie Holland.
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Mayfield, Jessica LeaMayfield, Jessica Lea | With Blasphemy So Heartfelt (CD Regular)
The album was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and recorded over a two-year span in his home studio in Akron. Says Auerbach of the recording experience, “I think she’s dark and moody in a mysterious way, not unlike Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.” He adds, “I’m just always really excited to make music with her.”
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Brand, Adam | Greatest Hits: 1998-2008 (CD Regular)
Adam Brand burst onto the Australian country music scene with the release of his self titled debut album in July 1998. Now, ten years and six albums later, Brand celebrates the tenth anniversary of that platinum selling album by releasing "Greatest Hits 1998 - 2008."
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Grunwald, AshGrunwald, Ash | Fish Out Of Water (CD Regular)
Fish Out Of Water sees Ash collaborating with the renowned beats master Countbounce from well-known Australian hip hop outfit, TZU.
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Eaglesmith, Fred | Tinderbox (CD Regular)
Tinderbox is the new album by Fred Eaglesmith. He calls it alternative gospel. (Gospel for non-believers). It's full of backsliders and people living on the margins. It rocks and rolls with distortion and preachers and end times. It happens on dirt roads and in little clearings with snakes and fi eld workers and people driving away. People say it is the best album Fred has ever made. Believe.
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Wainwright, Loudon Iii | Recovery (CD Regular)
The new album serves almost as a 'best of' collection - it features superb reworkings of some of his finest songs, given new color with the help of acclaimed producer and artist Joe Henry
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Van Zandt, Townes | Legend : the Very Best Of (2CD Slim Double)
Since his death at the age of 52 in 1997, the reputation and popularity of Townes Van Zandt have grown greater by the day. Townes left behind a musical legacy of some of the most beautifully-crafted songs ever written and a legion of grateful admirers.
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Guy, Buddy | Skin Deep (CD Regular)
Any discussion of Buddy Guy invariably involves a recitation of his colossal musical resume and hard-earned accolades. He’s a Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductee, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and living link to that city’s haylcon days of electric blues.
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Hinson, Micah P | Micah P Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra (Deluxe Ed) (CD Digibook Pack)
First pressing comes with deluxe hardbook packaging and two bonus tracks while stock lasts
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Jewell, Eilen | Letters From Sinners & Strangers (CD Regular)
Belated Australian release of acclaimed new album by 20-something Boston based singer-songwriter who fills the gap between Gillian Welch and Neko Case nicely.
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Felice Brothers, The | The Felice Brothers (CD Regular)
Like Gillian Welch, My Morning Jacket, Australia's own CW Stoneking and of course Bob Dylan, these guys take inspiration from older forms of American music and make music that is fresh and contemporary and fully connects with current audiences. Their wonderfully literary songs tells darkly humourous noir-like tales of misfits and outsiders
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Watson Twins, The | Fire Songs (CD Regular)
FIRE SONGS is the full-length debut by identical twins Chandra and Leigh Watson - The Watson Twins. Gaining fans in the indie-rock, folk and alternative-country music scenes, The Watson Twins - whose visual presence equals their vocal presence - can't be easily categorized.
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Harris, Emmylou | All I Intended To Be (CD Regular)
Recorded over a four-year span primarily at producer Brian Ahern’s Easter Island Surround in Nashville, for the first time in 25 years, this album returns Harris to the producer she worked with for her first 11 albums. The album includes both original material as well as some of Harris’ favourite songs.
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Lang, Jeff | Half Seas Over (CD Digipak)
Half Seas Over is an album resonant with story and song. The sparse instrumentation allows the stories of Half Seas Over to be delivered to their utmost power.
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May, Abbe | Howl and Moan (CD Regular)
“Howl and Moan is about passion and grief.. these songs are about howling for the dead and moaning for the beloved.. Howl and Moan was the only way I could put a ghost to rest and exorcise another from my house.” - Abbe May
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Audreys, The | When the Flood Comes (CD Digipak)
When The Flood Comes is an album of lyrical and sonic beauty that expands their musical template beyond the alt-country tinged and smokey pop of their debut.
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