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INDEPENDENTS : A - F The Last Record Store is a proud
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DOUG ASHDOWN "THE FOLK CENTRE CONCERT" $25 Recorded live in 2006 in Adelaide. More mroe info visit www.dougashdown.com. ALSO
AVAILABLE: "THE AGE OF MOUSE" $25 "THE BLU ES ... AND THEN SOME" $25 "HOMESONG" - features 5 new songs and new recordings of 9 concert favourites recorded in 2000 $25 "NO CHEAP GRACE" $25"REALLY AND SINCERELY - RARE & UNRELEASED ADELAIDE 1967-69" $25 "TREES" $25 |
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PETE FIDLER "SLIDE NIGHT" $25 Melbourne's hottest dobro player releases a solo album, with help from an a-list of local bluegrass players including his bandmates from the Somervilles. Great originals, great playing, great record! |
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AUSTIN FLOYD "MONTH OF SUNDAYS" $25 Great new rockin' country release from veterans of the Standard Hotel, The Stork, The Railway etc.," a seasoned and cynical collection of experienced (read older) guys who were keen to get back to playing in places they liked to drink". Murray Floyd writes and sings some great outlaw/country songs, and belts 'em on you with help from Justin Rudge, Chris Pain and Roman Leopoldseder. "An original and arresting blend of rock and alt-country, written and played as it should be." Andy Kerr - Standard Hotel |
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ANDY BAYLOR "BLUES IS POETRY" $25 ALSO AVAILABLE: "BUCKLEY'S CHANCE" $25 "THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT" $25 "THE BUSH IS FULL OF GHOSTS" $25 |
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THE BAYLOR BROTHERS "FRONT PORCH FAVOURITES" $25 See Also : ANDY BAYLOR |
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PETER BAYLOR "I HEAR THE ROAD" $25 "This is the sound of tearing thirstily down a long, straight, empty road towards a crowded bar with a hot jukebox. The songs are crisp, tight and witty, the playing fierce or lyrical as the moment demands. This is the 100th release from Graeme Thomas' defiantly tubular and analog Preston studio." Ken Williams, The Age |
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CYNDI BOSTE "HOME TRUTHS"
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SHANNON BOURNE "BURN IT DOWN" $25 Best known as the guitarist for the great Chris Wilson (and his
Spidermen), Shannon moves to centre stage on his debut album and
shows off his songwriting skills as well as his formidable guitar
talents. Featuring Marcel Yammouni on bass and keys, John Salerno
on drums and Chris Wilson on harmonica. |
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FIONA BOYES "LUCKY 13" $25 New album from the former MBAS winner. Recorded in Austin, Texas with Bob Margolin,Marcia Ball, Kaz Kazanoff and others, and featuring 10 great originals, this is a quantum leap forward for Fiona Boyes. ALSO AVAILABLE: FIONA BOYES/ MOOKIE BRILL/ RICH DEL GROSSO "LIVE FROM BLUESVILLE" $25 "GIMME SOME SWEET JELLY ROLL" $25 ... &THE FORTUNE TELLERS "LIVE IN ATLANTA" $25 ... WITH STEADY ROLLIN' BOB MARGOLIN & KAZ KAZANOFF "OFFICIAL BOOTLEG: LIVE IN ATLANTA E.P." $15 "BLUES IN MY HEART" $30 |
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THE BRUNSWICK MUSIC GROUP "LO-FI IN THE LOUNGE" $25 The Brunswick Music Group's debut CD, 'Lo-Fi in the Lounge' has certainly been a bit of a musical tart. She's been used on countless radio stations by presenters needing something groovy and instrumental, she graces the ipods, car and home stereos of countless Melburnians and she's just sold herself to Grundy Television where's she's peddling her wares for all and sundry on that doyen of Australian television, 'Neighbours'. There's a simple reason 'Lo-Fi in the Lounge' has become an endearing record to so many; it's really quite good. It is ten tracks of instrumental, loungy and groovy music played by Ben Kahans (guitar), Dave Walker (bass), Francis Cleary (drums) and Dan Knight (hammond/wurlitzer).And it's only $25. Go to the Brunswick Music Group website: brunswickmusicgroup.webmelon.com, have a listen to the songs, duck back here and grab yourself a copy. |
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KEV CARMODY / VARIOUS ARTISTS "CANNOT BUY MY SOUL: THE SONGS OF KEV CARMODY" $30 Tribute CD to Kev Carmody featuring 2 CDs: one featuring some of Australia’s finest singers/songwriters paying tribute to the highly respected and admired songwriter and a second containing a number of Kev's originals. For more info visit www.kevcarmody.com.au ALSO AVAILABLE: FULL BACK CATALOGUE! "PILLARS OF SOCIETY" (1989) $30
"EULOGY (FOR A BLACK PERSON)" (1991) $30
"BLOODLINES" (1993) $30
"IMAGES AND ILLUSIONS" (1995) $30
"MIRRORS" $25
ORDER ALL FIVE BACK CATALOGUE TITLES FOR $120.00 + P&H (does not include Cannot Buy My Soul) $120.00
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SARAH CARROLL "WAHINE" $25 With Wahine, Sarah Carroll finally sheds the Gitgal image and steps out as an artist in her own right and on her own terms. Produced in collaboration with Marcel Borrack, who brings his own special alchemy to the project, Wahine also reveals Sarah as a superbly accomplished songwriter - soul ballad Crying at Midnight could be Dan Penned - and her singing has never sounded better. There's a palpable sense of joy about it - alternately tender, sassy, and often very moving. An album of great charm, and a career best. |
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CHARCOAL CLUB "CRY FREEDOM - Meeting Two" $25 Richard Frankland, storyteller, film-maker, writer, singer, committed humanist, indigenous activist, among other things, formed The Charcoal Club "for burnt out blacks and singed whites" with local roots music legend Andy Baylor in 2001, as a vehicle for performing his own and other club members songs. Cry Freedom is the second album from this collective, and features an extended line-up, including the considerable talents of noted local indigenous singer and wicked rhythm guitarist Monica Weightman, along with Aurora Kurth, Rosanne Hunt, Andrew O'Grady and Harry Lye. In Richard Frankland's life and work, the artistic and the political voice are inseperable - it's no surprise that his recently formed political party is called Your Voice. This new album is a mixture of polemics, politics and the personal - 12 songs ranging from the anthemic title song (which was performed live to 100,000 people during the recent anti I.R. law rallies in Melbourne) to the stirring call for dissent of Lawbreaker, the anger of Who Made Me Who I Am, to the resigned longing of Andy Baylor's vocal on Last Tear. Cry Freedom is a stirring call for defiance and the search for truth in the face of a decietful and uncaring Government, and a passionate plea for understanding from an intelligent, articulate and important Australian voice. ALSO AVAILABLE:
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DEVIL GOAT FAMILY STRING BAND "FATE OF A BACHELOR" $25 12 tracks of original and traditional tunes ranging from foot-stomping hard-driving bluegrass, to lilting waltz-time ballads, Greek folk tunes and hillbilly classics. For more info see www.myspace.com/devilgoatfamilystringband |
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ALANNA & ALICIA EGAN "FUNNY SHE'S SO MUCH LIKE ME" $25 Sweet acoustic folk/jazz from Bendigo twin sibling songstress sisters - "and now watch it fly through CD players and across radio airways into kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and gardens, filling the spaces between converstion, between drivers and empty night roads, accompanying midnight tears and private smiles." |
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RORY ELLIS "ROAD OF THE BRAVER MAN" $30 ALSO AVAILABLE:"RIDE" $28 |
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SUZANNAH ESPIE and the LAST WORD "A FEW MORE DAYS " $25 Suzannah's first solo album, recorded largely with her crack band The Last Word, shows her increasing maturity as a songwriter, book-ending the record with three original songs on each side of five well-chosen covers, highlights including a duet with Chris Parkinson (of The Yearlings) on a flawless reading of the Louvin's "Lay Down My Old Guitar", and a wonderfully swampy cover of Stacey Earle's "Wedding Night". But it's her six original songs that shine, particularly the bluesy "Cool Rain", the country flavoured "Mean To Me", the title track, and the beautiful uncertainty of acoustic closer "I Don't Know If You're The One" with Marcel Borrack, who also helped out by adding his magic to some of the production. ALSO AVAILABLE:THE YEARLINGS & SUZANNAH ESPIE W/ IAN COLLARD "THE BLESS THIS HOUSE TOUR" $25 |
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KATE FAGAN "DIAMOND WHEEL" $25 Kate has been a member, along with her parents and brother, of nationally renowned folk band The Fagans for most of her life. She is also an internationally recognised and published poet, and on her first solo album, which was awarded the National Film and Sound Archive Award for best folk album of 2006, she seamlessly blends both disciplines into the beautifully realised Diamond Wheel. "Sometimes I feel like words and language have been my work, but music is my breath." Kate Fagan |
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JAIMI FAULKNER "BACK TO YOU (EP)" $15 ALSO
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MAURICE FRAWLEY & THE YARD HANDS "GOOD THINGS" $25 New release from one of the unsung heroes of Australian music. His new band are all crack country players, with Garrett Costigan's pedal steel playing a standout. At his finest, Frawley conjures up home-grown bar-room poetry of great resonance and poignancy. A soulful outing by a hometown diamond in the rough. |
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LIZ FRENCHAM & THE DREAM SEAT "JERICHO" $30 Expat Sydney double-bass player Liz Frencham, now settled in Melbourne, studied jazz bass at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and went on to hone her considerable talents with festival favourites Jigzag, and later with songwriter/ singer Fred Smith. JERICHO is her first solo project, an album of personal, intimate songs recorded with the help of the Dream Seat, a large and varied floating collective of like musical minds and collaborators, or as Liz puts it..."the dream rhythm section, the most comfortable groove...a cohesion of different creative souls." This is very much a bass player's album, eclectic and varied, ranging loosely between jazz and folk styles - folk-jazz? - and obviously coming to us from a warm and open heart. There are some strong songs here - particularly Room At The Table, The Stronger The Tree, and Suitcase, a loving, hope-full song about moving to a new life in a new town to be with a new lover, which brings to mind the great English folk-singer Sandy Denny. But the real kicker here is the title track Jericho, a beautiful and flawless lesson in how to write the perfect three-minute song! |
