Kenny Loggins, Leann Rimes & Ashford & Simpson – Big Bang Concert Series: Country Hits (Live) (2017)

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Audio CD – May 12, 2017 at 05:58AM
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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Quality: lossless
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit
Source: Digital download
Artist: Kenny Loggins, Leann Rimes & Ashford & Simpson
Title: Big Bang Concert Series: Country Hits (Live)
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2017
Scans: not included
Size .zip: ~ 230 mb
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James Carothers – Relapse (2017)

May 12, 2017, 3:59 am

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Audio CD – May 12, 2017 at 05:58AM
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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Quality: lossless
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit
Source: Digital download
Artist: James Carothers
Title: Relapse
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2017
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Size .zip: ~ 252 mb
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Lynn Hazelton – The Cook’s Daughter (2017)

May 12, 2017, 3:59 am

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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Quality: lossless
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit
Source: Digital download
Artist: Lynn Hazelton
Title: The Cook’s Daughter
Genre: Country/Folk
Release Date: 2017
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Size .zip: ~ 248 mb
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NeillyRich – Here Now Forever (2017)

May 12, 2017, 3:59 am

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Audio CD – May 12, 2017 at 05:58AM
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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Quality: lossless
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit
Source: Digital download
Artist: NeillyRich
Title: Here Now Forever
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2017
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Size .zip: ~ 153 mb
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Rylee Renee & The Ruckus – Steamy Summer Nights (2017)

May 12, 2017, 3:59 am

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Artist: Rylee Renee & The Ruckus
Title: Steamy Summer Nights
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2017
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Size .zip: ~ 108 mb
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Zac Brown Band – Welcome Home (2017)

May 12, 2017, 4:24 am

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exy – May 12, 2017 at 06:22AM
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Since releasing The Foundation in 2008, the Zac Brown Band have enjoyed consistent success, hit songs, and a robust catalog. Two years after the experimental Jekyll + Hyde, the band returns with Welcome Home, their fifth studio album and first for Elektra Records. It’s a nice set of tracks, stylistically reaching back to their debut and strategically away from the experimentation of its predecessor. The singles and early released tracks from Welcome Home, such as “My Old Man”, “Family Table”, and “Roots”, speak to the impact of life’s adventures on your past and present, and the relevance of the journeys away from your “roots”.

Overall, Welcome Home is enjoyable and takes you into Zac Brown’s experiences with evocative lyrics and strong music that precisely…

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…compose the presence of home. The return to the band’s debut style seemingly rejects the experimentation of recent albums, EPs, and collaborations by Zac Brown, but there is a light playful attitude that emerges and enhances the depth of connections and relationships built, recovered, and cherished across Welcome Home.

Opening with “Roots”, Zac Brown immediately goes back to The Foundation stylistically and further back in his lyrics. Championing an earlier sound and promoting this new album as a return to that success is unfair in its simplicity for this record. Songs like “Roots”, and its themes of home and where you come from continue through “Long Haul” and “Family Table”, but never depict a longing to return there specifically, but are more about finding a comfortable place and making that the core of your success. That’s a better approach to defining Welcome Home and its connection to The Foundation. Sonically and stylistically, the two albums are similar, but the method of celebrating “roots” and belonging are presented far differently.

The album has one misstep on “Start Over”, which follows the first single “My Old Man”. Where the single talks about Brown’s memories of his father at home and the work he did for his family, “Start Over” dives into party atmosphere with Spanish-style orchestral tones, voices pulled from a celebration, against a backdrop of slowing down and retracing your steps. These songs are in no way complementary and the weakness of “Start Over” and its party atmosphere shines after the emotional complexity and longing sung by Brown on “My Old Man”. Both may be about relationships, but the tone and delivery of “Start Over” undoes the notions of meeting expectations of a father or a partner and recovering from mistakes.

Fortunately, “Start Over” represents only a brief stray from the successful instrumentation and production on Welcome Home, but its experimentation fits the themes presented on the album. And ultimately, that makes it a misstep and not a mistake as it represents distances traveled, in this case for Zac Brown and his experimentations and collaborations. Those career decisions mattered, too, and inform how we interpret our past and present it to look at the future. The final three tracks take its shift in theme from “roots” to what comes next, and “Your Majesty”, “Trying to Drive”, and “All the Best”, define the knowledge presented by the opening tracks to the unknown that lies ahead. The closing track, “All the Best”, is a poignant cover of the John Prine song, and a deliberate statement to fit the mood and themes of the album.

Welcome Home is a beautiful record, full of imagery and experiences, and a worthy return to the style that made Zac Brown Band’s debut as successful as it was. It’s also a strong step forward to continuing the band’s success and ability to make personal connections to listeners.

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Colter Wall – Colter Wall (2017)

May 12, 2017, 4:24 am

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exy – May 12, 2017 at 06:22AM
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It’ll only take 15 seconds into “Thirteen Silver Dollars,” the opening track from Colter Wall’s new release, to have most folks wondering where in the States this greying, grizzled codger with the rusty baritone voice, talk/sung delivery and stripped-down folk approach has been hiding … and how deep is his catalog.

But first impressions are deceiving. Not only is Wall a native Canadian but at 21 he’s a long way from old. And he has only one previous EP, although that contained “Sleeping On The Blacktop,” featured on the soundtrack to last year’s Oscar nominated Hell Or High Water flick. All this helps makes Wall, who exudes an ancient, wise humanity, an up-and-coming Americana face worth watching.

With a two-pack-a-day voice that combines…

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…the hard boiled/craggy rectitude of Tony Joe White, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and especially Waylon Jennings, anything Walls touches feels authentic and lived-in.

The rugged, dry-roots folk and country tales he spins are accompanied by his own acoustic strumming and the sparest of backing; occasional brushed drums, steel, piano and additional guitar from producer Dave Cobb.

Whether he’s singing from a prison cell about murdering his lover “Kate McCannon,” or comparing life to a “Codeine Dream” in a back-mountain folk blues ballad, or recounting words of wisdom from his partner in “You Look To Yours,” these stories reverberate with gruff truth and tough reality. When he recounts riding a box car and freight train with blisters on his feet “thumbing down Woody Guthrie street” over a melancholy melody, the words to “Transcendent Ramblin’ Railroad Blues” feel like a page torn out of Wall’s diary.

Praises from Steve Earle and Rick Rubin should get Walls some attention. But one spin is all you’ll need to understand this youngster, with a soul matured beyond his years, is here to stay.

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EAT FAST – Immortal Kombat EP

May 12, 2017, 4:29 am

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madmackerel – May 12, 2017 at 06:27AM
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Newcastle’s EAT FAST will release their second EP, Immortal Kombat, on 19 May via Brighton indie Cannibal Hymns.

The title track from the record is out today and we’re liking it a lot. A rasping gut-punch of battering riffs and typically dagger-like lyricism. The track weighs up the pros and cons of lead singer Adam Pearson finding happiness in solitude – before being “chinned in a pub by an observer’s possessive boyfriend.”

May 12, 2017, 5:04 am

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Audio CD – May 12, 2017 at 06:58AM
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Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit
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Artist: The Highwaymen
Title: The Essential Highwaymen
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2010
Scans: included
Size .zip: ~ 744 mb
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Kenny Loggins, Leann Rimes & Ashford & Simpson – Big Bang Concert Series: Country Hits (Live) (2017)

May 12, 2017, 5:04 am

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Audio CD – May 12, 2017 at 06:58AM
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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Quality: lossless
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit
Source: Digital download
Artist: Kenny Loggins, Leann Rimes & Ashford & Simpson
Title: Big Bang Concert Series: Country Hits (Live)
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2017
Scans: not included
Size .zip: ~ 230 mb
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James Carothers – Relapse (2017)

May 12, 2017, 5:04 am

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Audio CD – May 12, 2017 at 06:58AM
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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Quality: lossless
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz / 16 Bit
Source: Digital download
Artist: James Carothers
Title: Relapse
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2017
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Size .zip: ~ 252 mb
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