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Premiere: New Red Mesa Track ‘Death I Am’

4th June 202031st July 2020 Lee Edwards Americana, Death I Am, Desert Records, Red Mesa, The Path To The Deathless

After Josuph’s review of the awesome Women In Doom album, Desert Records head honcho Brad Frye dropped us a line

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Review: Lord Buffalo ‘Tohu Wa Bohu’

16th March 20209th April 2020 Josuph Price Americana, Blues Funeral Recordings, Folk, Lord Buffalo, Tohu Wa Bohu

Picture yourself up in Texas Hill Country. Where it’s all limestone, cacti, and wildflowers. The sky is a vast canopy,

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Review: Kirk Windstein ‘Dream In Motion’

8th January 202030th January 2020 Mark Hunt-Bryden Americana, Crowbar, Dream In Motion, eOne Music, Kirk Windstein

Even as a Crowbar fan of over two decades standing, I was a little surprised when it was announced that

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Steve Von Till ‘A Life Unto Itself’ CD/LP/DD 2015

17th June 20153rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2015, A Life Unto Itself, Adam Stone, Americana, CD, Country, Digital, Experimental, Folk, LP, Neurot Recordings, Review, Steve Von Till

Neurosis lynchpin Steve Von Till’s name always becomes scrambled in my brain with that of gritty gunslinger Lee Van Cleef.

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Old Testament – S/T – 2014 CD/LP/DD 2014

8th December 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, Americana, Cardinal Fuzz Records, CD, Digital, Evil Hoodoo, Folk Rock, Jason Simon, Jeremy Moore, LP, Old Testament, Psych, Review, Self Titled

It’s been a long and successful road for Jason Simon, and as the longstanding leader of hazy retro rockers Dead

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Drcarlsonalbion ‘Gold’ CD/LP/DD 2014

24th July 20143rd September 2019 Jochem Visser 2014, Americana, Atmospheric, CD, Daymare Records, Digital, Drcarlsonalbion, Dylan Carlson, Gold, Jochem Visser, LP, Self Released, Soundtrack

Introductory side note: this review is all about preaching to the choir, for obvious reasons. People not familiar with Carlson‘s

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Spindrift ‘Spindrift: Ghost Of The West’ CD/LP/DD 2013

23rd September 20133rd September 2019 Mick Schrier 2013, Americana, CD, Country, Digital, LP, Mick Schrier, Review, Soundtrack, Spindrift, Spindrift: Ghost Of The West, Tee Pee Records

It’s not difficult to lose touch with the past as the rate of change continues to accelerate exponentially. Taking a

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Royal Thunder ‘CVI:A’ Digital EP 2013

27th July 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2013, Acoustic, Alex Varley, Americana, CVI:A, Digital, Folk Doom, Review, Royal Thunder, Self Released

As the amount of female fronted bands to surface in to the mainstream end of rock becomes catastrophic it has

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Across Tundras ‘Electric Relics’ LP/DD 2013

3rd July 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Across Tundras, Americana, Atmospheric, Country, Desert Rock, Digital, Electric Relics, Heavy Rock, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released

Fresh from the open prairie, old world wanderer Tanner Olson and his world-weary ragged band have ridden back into town

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Coma Wall / Undersmile ‘Wood & Wire’ Split 12″/DD 2013

27th February 20133rd September 2019 Chris Moore 2013, Acoustic, Americana, Avant-Garde, Chris Moore, Coma Wall, Doom, Folk Doom, Heavy, Review, Shaman Recordings, Split 12", Undersmile, Wood & Wire

Following on from last year’s debut full length ‘Narwhal’ comes ‘Wood & Wire’ which sees Undersmile cover increasingly ambitious ground

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Mirbeau ‘Silence And Blue Notes’ CS/DD 2012

7th February 20133rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, Americana, Atmospheric, Cassette, Digital, Eidetic Seeing, Folk, Improv, Mirbeau, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Self Released, Silence And Blue Notes

It would be remiss of us at The Shaman to only regale you with tales of the good and bad

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