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The Memphis bunch Lucero is as good as it gets. From the gruff voice of Ben Nichols to the perfectly suited americana-country-punkrock twang the band master.

Lucero have been around from the debut The Attic Tapes 13 years ago and still tours the rough ground, back and forth. We salute you.

The amazing EP Texas & Tennessee is a great 2013-release. And don´t miss the full-lenght Women & Work from 2012. A perfect punch in the solar plexus.

Check out the single, namned after the EP, and have a great weekend.

Not very often we take the electronica step. But this, follow K7-ians, is too brilliant to withhold.

We give you a Friday curveball: UK-band Everything Everything and their great song Don´t Try in a spectactular Fenech-Soler mix.

Now, check out the full-length-album Arc, and have a good one.

This is awesome. A one-man-alt.country-folk-trooper that breaks the rules and makes magic all over. Konrad Wert aka Possessed By Paul James has got a place in our K7-heart forever and ever. Truly bewitching.

Mr Wert is from Immokalee, Florida and now hangs out in Austin, Texas. His latest album There Will Be Nights When I’m Lonely was released Oct 29, 2013, via Hillgrass Bluebilly Records.

Listen to Where Does All The Time Go below and ya´ll see what I mean. Chillin’, straight-shooting, bone-crunching stuff.

Baskery is a great killbilly, mud-country, Americanaband from Stockholm, Sweden. The three talented sisters Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson makes us boogie all over the office this morning.

The band just released their third studio-LP Little Wild Life, recorded in an old dance studio in Berlin, Germany. They worked with Long Beach based producer Matt Wignall (Cold War Kids, J.Roddy) to create an album laced in analogue atmosphere, backed up by big room vibes and ruled by the Baskery-groove.

Check out the awesome tune The Nono.

Jason Isbell from Green Hill, Alabama, made – without a doubt in my mind – one of the best records this year: Southeastern.

The ex-Drive By Trucker knuckled down with his acoustic guitar and made a complete. A rarity. A revelation. Lyrics that ring true in our time of need.

Check out the outstanding opening song, Cover Me Up.

This windy Monday afternoon in Sweden, in the cold end of a hollow October, we celebrate the genius of Mr Sturgill Simpson from Kentucky, living in Tennessee.

Simpson got us all honkytonked, all countried-up, all dusty and ready to roll. This is the way country was made to be played, The Waylon Way.

Check out the great song Medicine Springs, and don´t miss his debut album High Top Mountain.

Today October 21 Gavin James releases his debut EP Remember Me on Believe Recordings. James, who include a stunning cover of Daft Punks Get Lucky, is an Irish 21-year old with a voice of an angel.

Earlier this year Gavin joined fellow Dubliners Kodaline on their sell out UK tour. Double magic, that one.

Check out the beautiful song For You, and good riddance to the ever-talented Mr James.

One of our favorites of all times, who made THE album of 2009, Howie Payne is on the move.

Recording and releasing demos, he will return with an album, of that we are sure. And we will be ready.

Until then, this friday will be made golden by listening to a song from the coming stuff The Brightest Star… Listen, and enjoy your weekend!

Check out great psychrockers Sun Stone Revolvers from Toronto, Canada. It´s the great 60´s garage vibe, it´s Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with a vengeance, it´s heavy introspective headbanging. Kick up dust!

The bands new album Spaceship X is out on Optical Sounds. Here is the song America:

Man, this is groovy as a snake tail in Virginia County. I can´t sit still and – BY GOD – I won´t. It´s boot stompin, hoot humpin, loot lumpin. All of my trouble – and trouble is my only friend.

The Temperance Movement is a wonderful, british americanaband that will rock’n’roll our ages this fall. Hell aint a bad place to be…cheers to Glasgow-born singer Phil Campbell.

Check out this great tune Only Friend, from the debut LP (namned after the band – The Temperance Movement) out this fall. Rock. On.