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This is The Magnolia Sessions number four, and I’m back in the ring to take another swing. First up was

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Video Premiere: Cristina Vane ‘Muddy Water’ – ‘The Magnolia Sessions’ Releases Today

4th December 202010th January 2021 Lee Edwards Anti-Corporate Music, Blues, Cristina Vane, Folk, Muddy Water, The Magnolia Sessions

It’s that time again as the ever faithful Anti-Corporate Music, and Dan Emery of Black Matter Mastering, bring us the

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Review: Bone Church ‘Acid Communion’

13th March 20209th April 2020 Liam Blanc Acid Communion, Blues, Bone Church, Ripple Music

Another month, another rocking new band signed to Ripple Music. This time it’s the turn of Connecticut five piece Bone

Streams

Premiere: Stream The Heavy Eyes Track ‘God Damn Wolf Man’

12th March 20208th February 2022 Lee Edwards Blues, Exclusive Stream, God Damn Wolf Man, Kozmik ArtIfactz, Love Like Machines, Psych, The Heavy Eyes

After five years in the making, Memphis based psychedelic blues rockers The Heavy Eyes gear up to make their long

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Review: Lunar Swamp ‘UnderMudBlues’

12th March 20202nd July 2021 Rob Bryant Blues, Doom, Lunar Swamp, The Swamp Records, UnderMudBlues

Amid the clamour of frogs and crickets, an owl calls. Through the cypress trees, a down-tuned guitar plays a plaintive

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Review: Ritual King ‘Ritual King’

17th February 202020th March 2020 Liam Blanc Blues, Ripple Music, Ritual King, Self Titled

Over in sunny California, Ripple Music is nearing its tenth birthday and seems to be celebrating appropriately by signing a

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Conny Ochs ‘Future Fables’ CD/LP 2016

8th March 20161st November 2019 Jay Hampshire Acoustic, Blues, Conny Ochs, Exile On Mainstream Records, Folk, Future Fables, Review

There’s a tendency for many to underestimate those artists who choose to ‘strip back’ as lacking complexity. Conny Ochs’ latest

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Mothership ‘Mothership II’ CD/LP/DD 2014

16th December 20143rd September 2019 Brian Burroughs 2014, Blues, Brian Burroughs, CD, Classic Rock, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Mothership, Mothership II, Review, Ripple Music

First off, man, I gotta say, I dig this mother, I really really dig this mother mother. This Mothership II

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Shield Your Eyes ‘Reciprocate’ LP/DD 2014

13th December 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Blues, Dave Bowes, Experimental, Math Rock, Progressive, Reciprocate, Review, Romac Puncture Repairs, Shield Your Eyes

For the unaware, Shield Your Eyes have been kicking out their distinctive math-rock blues for a good few years now,

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Jess And The Ancient Ones ‘Castaneda’ 10″ 2014

28th October 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 10", 2014, Blues, Castaneda, Jess And The Ancient Ones, Occult, Review, Rock, Sandy Williamson, Svart Records

Jess And The Ancient Ones are one of these bands that you just get, or you don’t. The whole female-fronted

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Mellow Bravo ‘RiPPER’ Digital EP 2013

19th October 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Blues, Classic Rock, Digital EP, Heavy Rock, Mellow Bravo, Ollie Stygall, Review, RiPPER, Self Released

When Mellow Bravo’s debut full length landed last year I was immediately hooked by the band’s schizophrenic take on classic