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Track: Owen FitzGerald investigates the disassociative in the confessional alt.country of ‘Touching The Oven At Work’
DURHAM, North Carolina-based Americana troubadour Owen FitzGerald isn’t just a songwriter of whom you can simply say, he looks askance at life in a refreshing way couched in sound songsmithery – I mean he is all that, of course he is – but he brings back postcards from his own particular day-to-day travails, this mucky, …
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See: North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald invites you to his outsider country confessional, ‘Bismuth, The Last Gentleman’
HE’S a gentleman of the leftfield country music scene, is Durham, North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald who, after appearing in the music world as Jokes&Jokes&Jokes awhile, has returned to his ‘government name’ – the name under which he snuck out two fine if lyrically troubled and akimbo albums digitally in 2015, Tight Gyre and Pointer. That …
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TRACK: swim in Lindsay Munroe’s ‘River’
JUST pause a second, and see Lindsay Munroe. Just a brief pause, before you press the right-cursor on her latest track, “River”. I’ll pretty much guarantee you that you’ll utter an expletive in surprise. Like Micah P Hinson, her physicality belies the depth and power of what she’s capable of delivering; like Tim Buckley, you’ll …