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Portland artist Anna Tivel creates wide-eyed celestial folk with a confessional edge. She has a wonderful new single out ahead of her album next year and we’ll feature that on this edition of the podcast. As well, William Elliot Whitmore who can seamlessly meld country, blues, folk, and punk together, he does this with aplomb on his new collection of covers, Kilonova. Plus bouncy electronic Afrofuturistic pop from Onipa, the excellent new release from the Yowo Music collective – dedicated to nurturing/encouraging high school aged girls and GNC youth and much more.

Paul Andrews has been writing great songs for many years now, initially as a part of Lazy Susan and in more recent years with his solo project, Family Fold. Paul joins us to chat about working with Nashville producer/mult-instrumentalist Brad Jones on his recent ripper release, Ashfield Skyline and about his song writing technique. As well, sublime folk from UK ensemble The Willows, soulful pop from NYC’s 79.5, plus essential new releases from Gregory Alan Isakov, Grand Salvo and The Other Years.

Zac Denton (pictured far left) was the youngest member of The Ocean Party, who sadly passed away after complications with a cyst blocking the fluids from draining his brain. He was 24. Zac left Wagga Wagga at 18 to join his brother Lachlan, who along with his High School mates had formed their excellent band, working tirelessly recording eight albums and touring extensively around the country. Zac was an excellent producer, songwriter and contributed to other stellar outfits like Ciggie Witch, Pregnancy and Hobby Farm. This show is dedicated to him. We also pay tribute to the passing of Tony Joe White and unveil some great new releases from Canadian Madeline Roger, duo Desi and Cody and two doses of excellent guitar instrumentals from Nathan Salsburg and Jim Ghedi teaming up with Toby Hay.