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The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 9)

We’re counting down our favourite songs of the past ten years. Here are numbers 70-61. 70 Water Liars – Swannanoa (2015) A melancholy story of searching and loss, of heroin and girls with stutters, of cowardice and looking death in the face. No one does this stuff as well as Water Liars.   69 Goodnight, Texas – Jesse Got Trapped In A Coalmine (2012)   … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 9)

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New Video: Goodnight, Texas – A Bank Robber’s Nursery Rhyme

The new school run favourite is this undeniably catchy tale from Goodnight, Texas’ forthcoming album Uncle John Farquhar. A Bank Robber’s Nursery Rhyme is destined to become as much as a favourite as their brilliant Jesse Got Trapped In A Coal Mine from their debut release A Long Life Of Living (which is high praise indeed). Watch the video. Download the song. Pretend to rob a … Continue reading New Video: Goodnight, Texas – A Bank Robber’s Nursery Rhyme

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2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 2: 80-61

Here are tracks 80 – 61 in our countdown of Mad Mackerel’s 100 favourite tunes of the year. Don’t forget to check out numbers 100 – 81 in yesterday’s post here and check back tomorrow for numbers 61 – 40. Here we go… 80 SUN KIL MOON – SUNSHINE IN CHICAGO Beautifully bittersweet reflections of wandering troubadour preparing for another gig in Chicago and how the … Continue reading 2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 2: 80-61

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MM’s 5:1 Interview No 4: Goodnight, Texas

After meeting in San Francisco and learning each other’s melodies, San Francisco’s Avi Vinocur and North Carolina’s Patrick Dyer Wolf named their band after the ghost town of Goodnight, Texas, which sits halfway between their respective homes. They found their stylistic midpoint amidst old wooden instruments and a vision of late nineteenth century blue collar America – a grittier, simpler, more mysterious world full of raw … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 4: Goodnight, Texas

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…Goodnight, Texas

We must confess to being a little late to the charms of Goodnight, Texas – charms duly discovered once we’d had this song on repeat a few times. Jesse Got Trapped In A Coalmine has the authentic twang and gritty lyrics of the very best Appalachian folk and the echoes of its rootsy Americana hangs in the air like a ghostly fog long after the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Goodnight, Texas

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