Articles by Blake Morneau

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  William Elliott Whitmore

  Radium Death

  PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2015

  Does a musician need to be in anguish and turmoil to make truly great music that touches the soul? Does the discovery of contentedness that...

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  Black River Drifters

  Hearts Gone Cold

  PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2015

  The debut album from Winnipeg's Black River Drifters, Hearts Gone Cold, perfectly captures the plight of the modern (alt) country band. Do...

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  St. Paul and the Broken Bones

  Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, February 19

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

  St Paul and the Broken Bones came out swinging last night (February 19) at the Rickshaw and didn't let up. As the Broken Bones took the sta...

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  Fortunate Ones

  The Bliss

  PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2015

  The debut album from Newfoundland folk duo Fortunate Ones starts with a pair of songs overflowing with the hallmarks of modern folk, as qui...

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  Murder By Death

  Big Dark Love

  PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2015

  Murder By Death's Big Dark Love is a walloping triumph of great roots songwriting. It's a record that takes on that biggest and most trodde...

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  Shred Kelly

  Sing to the Night

  PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2015

  The name Shred Kelly screams out boisterous in-your-face hair-metal but instead gives you boisterous, in-your-face folk music. Their latest...

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  The New Basement Tapes

  The New Basement Tapes: Lost on the River

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2014

  There might be no one better in music today than T-Bone Burnett to oversee the creation and production of music to support long-lost lyrics...

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  Luke Winslow-King

  Everlasting Arms

  PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2014

  Listening to Everlasting Arms, it's staggeringly hard to believe Luke Winslow-King is from Michigan and not from the swampy bayou of Louisi...