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The DVD is coupled with a brand-new CD/2-LP titled „Live Through the Past, Darkly“ featuring all never-before released live audio spanning the band’s entire career from 1983 to 2023 including Karl Precoda, Paul Cutler, Jason Victor with Steve Wynn, Dennis Duck and Mark Walton. Plus special guest Vicki Peterson of the Bangles on a searing 15-minute version of „John Coltrane Stereo Blues“ from the band’s recent London 2023 appearance. The 2 LP set is on colored vinyl: One disc is Orange and one disc is Blue. The DVD contains the Dream Syndicate documentary „The Dream Syndicate: How Did We Find Ourselves Here?“ plus a previously unreleased bonus video of a complete 1984 live Show from The Roxy in LA.

Kommentare deaktiviert für Finally available: The DREAM SYNDICATE documentary How Did We Find Ourselves Here coupled with the CD/2-LP Live Through The Past, Darkly

For many years, actually since the beginning of Blue Rose Records and our mailorder service, we have been receiving tips from our customers and friends about including CDs in the mail order program. We liked to do that every now and then, but we had previously integrated these recommendations into the “normal” program. From now on we will list customer recommendations separately, as these CDs do not always be brand new titles. And we will only be able to recommend CDs that can supplied by wholesalers or distributors. And yet quantities are limited, so please don’t wait too long if you’re interested. Then let’s get started today – have fun and THANK YOU for the tips!

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V: End Of The Bloodline is the latest offering from sisters Sunniva, Greta and Stella Bondesson whose combined talents coalesce to produce the divine sound of Baskery. The self-proclaimed ‘three bitches from Sweden’ can often be found in a chipper mood and aren’t averse to dabbling in a bit of rock, blues or even a dash of punk. This album however sees the girls bringing on the heartache with a dozen sublime and, for the most part, tear-drenched Americana folk/country tales of lost love and injustice delivered in their inimitable style.
For the uninitiated, Baskery’s secret lies largely in the versatility that is afforded by having three such talented individuals working in perfect harmony, all bringing something a bit special to the mix. Their instrumental flexibility includes Greta’s unique banjo/drums combo (with a bit of guitar and piano thrown in for good measure), while lead singer Sunniva is an accomplished guitarist in her own right, and Stella’s upright bass works perfectly for the band offering a completely different texture to the bass guitar.

All three have sublime voices which meld to magnificent effect bringing to life the full gamut of emotions expressed by their impressive songwriting to which, naturally, they all contribute. Sean Lakeman’s empathetic and uncluttered production suggests the Bondessons have found a kindred spirit while brother Seth contributes viola to a couple of tracks, offering a stamp of approval from folk royalty which affirms the high esteem in which Baskery are held by fellow musicians.
And so you have it, a fifth studio album from this talented trio to add to their already impressive back-catalogue and establish them once and for all as a force to be reckoned with. Parallels are inevitably drawn with other all-female acts and there are some obvious stylistic references, but when it comes to the overall Baskery sound, these sisters are very much doing it for themselves.
To say that there isn’t a bad track on the album would be no overstatement, and it’s impressive indeed that a band which seems constantly to be on the road somehow manages to craft each song with the perfectionist’s eye for detail and the poet’s ability to paint a picture in your mind.

Kommentare deaktiviert für We are very pleased with a new BASKERY album – V: End Of The Bloodline !

SOUTH AUSTIN MOONLIGHTERS – Travel Light
The South Austin Moonlighters from Austin, Texas are truly a band that won’t let anything get them down! At the beginning of the 2010s, they started out with great ambitions as a permanent club fixture in the legendary Saxon Pub in South Austin – all of them seasoned musicians who had earned their spurs with well-known acts such as Stonehoney, Mother Truckers, Whiskey Sisters, Deadman and Mike Zito: Phil Hurley, Josh Zee, Lonnie Trevino Jr. and Phil Bass made a big statement in Texamericana rock right from the start, scoring points with their versatility of four songwriters/singers as well as a live EP and the first studio CD ‚Burn & Shine‘ (2013, on Blue Rose). Some people already saw them as the next Resentments or Band Of Heathens! But it wasn’t until 2016 that the next album ‚Ghost Of A Small Town‘ (also on Blue Rose) was released with Chris Beall as the new guitarist and singer/songwriter for Josh Zee. Actually a really big hit and all fans of Little Feat, Los Lobos, the Beat Farmers, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, the Flying Burrito Brothers and Arc Angels should burst into excitement! But somehow the good part disappeared, constant, national touring hardly took place, and personal problems threw sand into the team’s gear. In 2019 the almost forgotten South Austin Moonlighters were reborn! With a new drummer (Daniel James for Phil Bass) and under the healthy influence of the famous guitarist Anders Osborne as producer and arranger, South Louisiana quickly found its way back to the old class – while band boss Lonnie Trevino Jr. did without his own material and lead vocals this time, The two guitarists Phil Hurley and Chris Beall dominated the scenario with three and five extremely strong songs respectively, in which two original cover versions also found their place: ‚Machine Gun Kelly‘, Danny Kortchmar’s legendary early masterpiece from 1970 (for James Taylor), as well as the iconic Stephen Stills medley ‚Daylight Again’/’Find The Cost Of Freedom‘ to round off this fantastic CD. It wasn’t just here that Beall & Hurley delivered their well-measured electric/acoustic guitar bravura with slide & solo interludes that simply make you happy!!

SOUTH AUSTIN MOONLIGHTERS – From Here To Home
And once again – of course also due to Corona – far too long a time passed before the South Austin Moonlighters found their way back into the spotlight! Four years have passed since their comeback album ‚Travel Light‘ and, of course, there has been another personnel change: founding member, singer, songwriter and guitarist Phil Hurley has left to pursue a solo career. His replacement is Hunter St.Marie, who has been in the Austin scene for a long time and has proven his quality with various projects. He focuses on S.A.M. fully on the 6- and 12-string guitars, with and without slide, defining his role as lead guitarist as much darker, earthier, sharper and more experimental than Hurley before. His song and lead vocal parts are now again taken over by bassist Lonnie Trevino Jr., who shares this job with Chris Beall 50/50 – no foreign titles this time. In addition to an audibly more relaxed way of working in various Austin studios with different sound engineers, some ex-citing guest musicians were also brought in: guitarist Jacob Hildebrand (Deadman), the two keyboardists Daniel Creamer (Texas Gentlemen, Nikki Lane, Paul Cauthen) and Anthony Farrell (JJ Gray & Mofro, Greyhounds) and drummer Fred Mandujano (Deadman, Shinyribs) give some tracks the final spice. Through successful crowdfunding, the band was able to hire none other than the famous Steve Berlin for the producer job! The Los Lobos veteran (already a producer for such high-profile artists as Beat Farmers, Chuck Prophet, Leftover Salmon, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Fastball, Matt An-derson and Deer Tick) has once again done a great job and given the South Austin Moonlighters an overall earthy a more soulful, compact, „heavier“ sound with a spe-cial emphasis on the rhythm section, but which also proves its suitability for ra-dio in the opener ‚Nashville‘ or in the chorus-strong ‚Box Of Memories‘ or in the title song – Texas radio style, of course ! Other tracks like ‚Make A Livin‘, ‚Then Away, Farewell‘, ‚Faded Into Gray‘ and ‚Deltaman‘ are dominated by shuffle, funk, soul crooning and swamp rock. Very ripe, high quality and completely convincing!

Kommentare deaktiviert für Exclusively available in Europe at the Blue Rose webshop: Austin’s own SOUTH AUSTIN MOONLIGHTERS newest releases!