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Music Video: Hauler is a Contemporary Roots Version of Slowcoaster, Debuts With ‘Wind That Shakes the Barley’

If Hauler looks a little familiar to you, that shouldn’t be at all surprising. Two-thirds of the band is comprised of Atlantic Canada’s reggae-rock champions of the festival circuit, Slowcoaster. Today the trio released their first single, a nod to their Celtic roots with a modern arrangement of the 1861 hit “Wind That Shakes the Barley.” Continue reading Music Video: Hauler is a Contemporary Roots Version of Slowcoaster, Debuts With ‘Wind That Shakes the Barley’ →

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Single: Lawrence Maxwell Points Out We Should Have Listened to the ‘Whiskey Songs’ of Old Country

You can’t solve everything with drinking. Particularly if the problem you need to solve is the drinking. There’s enough country music out there to attest to that, and “Whiskey Songs,” the latest single from Prince Edward Island’s Lawrence Maxwell, offers the final word on that. Continue reading Single: Lawrence Maxwell Points Out We Should Have Listened to the ‘Whiskey Songs’ of Old Country →

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Single: Jon McKiel Works With a Mystery Collaborator on ‘Object Permanence’

What would you do if you’d purchased a reel-to-reel tape recorder with the intention of recording your album, only to discover that one of the tapes included with said purchase already contained a treasure trove of material? Do you discard it? Or do you turn them into unwitting collaborators, to form the backbone of your new masterpiece.

Jon McKiel, chose the latter, and that’s how his upcoming album, Bobby Joe Hope, was created. “Object Permanence,” the album’s first  single, debuted today, and it’s so impressive we’re dying to know who the mysterious collaborator was.

Continue reading Single: Jon McKiel Works With a Mystery Collaborator on ‘Object Permanence’ →