Category: Blues

Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Bloodshot Records Offer Limited Edition Release For Record Store Day

Bloodshot Records have rapidly become one of our favourite labels – particularly with the recent releases of Ha Ha Tonka and Maggie Bjorklund, both of which we have posted about recently. Especially for Record Store Day (tomorrow), they have announced the release of No One Got Hurt: Bloodshot Records’ 15th Anniversary Live @ The Hideout, a compilation that commemorates Bloodshot Records’ legendary concert live from one … Continue reading Bloodshot Records Offer Limited Edition Release For Record Store Day

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Alternative, Blues, Music, Rock

Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (8th April)

We’re more or less packed. 300 miles. I’m feeling tetchy – better make it before the sea surrounds us. Smile and wave, smile and wave. Will it be alright on the night? It’s too late to turn back, Here we go. Lindisfarne, oh no. (A Middle Brother inspired refrain to the tune of Portland – I realise you may not sing this tune with the … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (8th April)

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Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock, Rockabilly

Introducing…The Black Hand Gang

The Black Hand Gang hail from urban Scotland, but their hearts would seem to be just as firmly ensconced in the America of backwood swamps and dusty plains that call to mind some of the greats like Creedence Clearwater Revival and Neil Young. Put these influences together and you get soaring passion and raw emotion anchored by some down-to-earth Glasgow grit. The songs from their self-titled … Continue reading Introducing…The Black Hand Gang

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Alternative, Ambient, Blues, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March

Another bonanza month. Another round up of the very best tracks we posted in March. Another selection of new tunes to get your teeth into too. So without further ado… Download White Denim – Drug mp3 (from D) First taste of rockers new album. Bodes well. Very well. Download The Everymen – Ballad Of Sarin mp3 (from Hello, Nice Evening. We Are The Everymen) Cocksure but not … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…Twilight Hotel

We’re late again probably, but we are loving this track by Austin’s Twilight Hotel from their third album When The Wolves Go Blind. It is a brilliant combination of alt-country and spaghetti-western desert twang that moves languidly to conclusion via poignant, scalpel sharp lyrics. We will be investigating the rest of the album and the back catalogue for sure. You can buy the album from … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Twilight Hotel

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OK…We Confess. We Missed These!

We missed these. They are all excellent and we missed them. So just in case, (like us) you are late coming to them, then you’re in for a real treat – from the unwavering desolation of Josh T Pearson to the gung-ho garage riffs of Jeff The Brotherhood, all of these should (if we’d been doing our job properly) have been up on MM long … Continue reading OK…We Confess. We Missed These!

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Alternative, Blues, Metal, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Introducing…The Flying Eyes

Baltimore’s The Flying Eyes represent the heavy end of the psych rock spectrum, and do it rather well! Done So Wrong is the second long player by the band. Their self titled debut album was celebrated as one of the best 70s sounding pieces since the Doors. On the new record, The Flying Eyes have continued to develop and intensify their own sound. The ten … Continue reading Introducing…The Flying Eyes

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New solo album from James Leg

James Leg (aka John Wesley Myers), growler, shouter, composer, and Fender Rhodes finger-fucker, of the Black Diamond Heavies, steps out with some friends for more songs of hedonistic excess, crazy-ass women and Southern salvation. On new solo album Solitary Pleasure he is joined by longtime friend Andy Jody on drums and if the slow burn of blistering taster track Drowning In Fire is anything to go … Continue reading New solo album from James Leg

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Introducing…The Owsley Brothers

Just like MM faves The Howling Owls, The Owsley Brothers hail from Florida. They sent us a couple of tunes from their forthcoming album Separated At Birth, which is out in April. And what a pair of tunes they were. Under The Shade Of A Live Oak Tree grabbed us by the short and curlies and squeezed from the very first listen. A slow, pulsing blues … Continue reading Introducing…The Owsley Brothers

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