Loudon Wainwright III releases his new album Older Than My Old Man Now on Proper Records on the 16th April. As the new album’s title relates, Loudon is Older Than My Old Man Now – his old man, of course, being the late Loudon Wainwright, Jr., the esteemed Life Magazine columnist and senior editor. “Singer-songwriter …
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Nanci Griffith releases her brand new studio album ‘Intersection’ on the 20th February via Proper Records. “It’s emotional for me, and it’s personal, and it makes my heart pound, thinking I’m going to be totally exposed here,” says Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Intersection is not an …
The title of Gretchen Peters’ new album Hello Cruel World (due for release by Proper Records on the 30th January 2012) is a pun on the famed exit line — a joke that, like the lovely melodies and deliciously textured arrangements framing these 11 songs — sweetens this captivating music spun from a year of …
For nearly any singer/songwriter on the planet, the idea of collaborating with Mark Knopfler would be the stuff of fantasy. But for Bap Kennedy, it was just the latest in a long line of projects with high profile, and highly respected, musical legends. For a man who has worked with Steve Earle and Van Morrison, …