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• John Moreland is back with another great record. The big man from Tulsa, Oklahoma got a rhythm and a rime to knock us down and out. It’s a beautiful record, poetry and songs combined into angelic bliss.

Try this live version of Hang Me in the Tulsa County Stars.

Our favorite Stockholmian, Kanada, aka Johan Hammarbäck is releasing his album ”Paradise in Her Arms” today.

With his delicate yet experienced ways around the lyrics, he takes us in to his life, where divorce, love, breaking up and beeing a man are a few of the ingredients. An album, like his last release, that sounds and feels up close, personal and very intimate. Swedish Americana/Singer/Songwriter at its purest.

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• Swedish singer-songwriter and bluesman Daniel Norgren startade out as a one-man-band. His latest record takes two steps back from the frusting-stomping and one big leap into divine folky-earth. This is Fleet Foxes in the hands of eternity. Pure genius.

Check out his newly released album Alabursy – and try the hollow, powerful song Like There Was A Door.

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• Ellen Sundberg is a young & fabulous, great & swedish, americana super star in the making. Her new album White smoke and pines is out – produced by no less then the bearded wonder of Israel Nash on his farm outside Austin, Texas.

Check out great song Vägen är lång (The Road Is Long) who takes an epic turn switching from english to swedish in a quite stunning way. Way to go (grymt), Ellen!

• All the way from Lake Charles, Louisiana: Gill Landry. The man have been wandering together with Old Crow Medicine Show and is now on his bloody own – killing it every night on scene after scene. It’s an alt-country love affair. 

Dig into Landry’s great new song Just Like You from his self-titled 3rd LP released 2015. It’s a golden spark of broken beauty.

• Swedish band The Amazing got new album Picture You out on the streets. From the aching vocals of singer Reine Fiske to the cinematic landscape of the band rolling in like bad weather on a sunny day; this is a wild emotional ride.

• Our old-time favorite singer/songwriter Joe Pug from Greenbelt, Maryland released his new album Windfall on March 10th. As always it’s a treat around the corner.

The folky troubadour recorded this bunch of songs in Lexington, Kentucky; and from the sound of first tune out – If Still It Can’t Be Found – the man struck gold.

• Stockholmband Trail Of Feathers released their Love and Theft EP a week ago. The band got heroes as Portishead, Feist, Albert King and Shuggie Otis. We hear a guitar sound that clings to your soul, a molotov cocktail between the lines, a dark fairy tale you dig without remorse.

Check out title song Love and Theft, and have a good one.

• Our longtime favorites in the southern rock chapter Blackberry Smoke keep on releasing LPs and keep on being on top of their game.  It’s friday night music with money in your pocket, heading out mischieving. Long haired, long bearded, long gone.

The band from Atlanta, Georgia got new record  Holding All The Roses out, check out song Rock And Roll Again.

• You dig ambient slackerness as Kurt Vile or Mac DeMarco? Well you should. Here’s something for your veins, WT and the album Discrete People. 

WT wrote their new album, released January 30th, after exploring America, from New York, to Maine, to California, to Nashville, where it was finally recorded. Check out great song Don´t Hang Your Love On Me.