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New songs from Robin Pahlman

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Robin Pahlman has featured here several times as a half of the country duo Carmen & The Devil. The other half is his wife Heli Pahlman and together they create beautiful old-fashioned country songs. Nowadays Robin & Heli are exploring the Austrian country & folk scene and Robin is also working on his upcoming solo debut in his home studio in Vienna. A few of his demos recently surfaced and it proves that the solo material is equally amazing. I can only hope that he finds a label that will release the solo debut, because this stuff is just too damn brilliant and captivating to be left unreleased. This one below is Miss Lonelyhearts. Hit that soundcloud link to find the songs Waves and Man Overboard, which are just as great.

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Robin Pahlman at Soundcloud
Carmen & The Devil at Facebook

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Woody Pines, Zachary Lucky and Carly Maicher

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Woody Pines – You Gotta Roll

North Carolinian Woody Pines released a new ep You Gotta Roll a while back and I really like their vintage country sounds. Old-fashioned American music delivered with heart and soul. Red Rockin’ Chair is an outtake from the excellent new EP, but I also had to re-post the earlier video of the day 99 Years Blues (not on the new EP), because it’s just so damn good.

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Woody Pines Website

Zachary Lucky – Saskatchewan

Canadian folk troubadour Zachary Lucky released his new album/mini-album Saskatchewan back in march and I just realized that I haven’t posted about this beauty more than an odd twitter comment or two even though I’ve been enjoying it ever since. Saskatchewan is a little folk treasure and makes Saskatoon feel like home even if you can’t find it from the map. Here are couple of magical examples. Across The Ocean and Leaves Are Falling. The latter one features another wonderful folk artist Carly Maicher on backing vocals.

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Zachary Lucky at Bandcamp
Zachary Lucky Website

Carly Maicher – Hiding

Well this one is actually from last year, but I couldn’t leave the opportunity to post a Carly Maicher song to pass me by. I think I first found her music late last year, when she toured with Ryan Boldt (The Deep Dark Woods). At the time I was curious about anything even remotely The Deep Dark Woods related and instantly noticed that Carly Maicher’s music was also something pretty amazing. Since then, I keep on coming back to her bandcamp every now and then. This is a beautiful song entitled Tundra.

Carly Maicher at bandcamp

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Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka – The Anecdotes

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Seamus Cater & Viljam Nybacka are Amsterdam-based experimental folk duo. Seamus Cater is british and Viljam Nybacka is from Vaasa, Finland, but has lived in Amsterdam for the past twelve years or so. Together they’ve created a captivating folk album The Anecdotes. At times the album goes out of my comfort zone, but in the end it’s rather refreshing to listen to something more challenging than those three minute pop songs and sad whiskey-soaked country tunes for a change. And obviously there’s the beautifully phrased vocals and the traditional folk elements that will keep simple pop fan on board even if the minimalistic experimentation occasionally becomes too challenging. Just listen to the magic of Folk Music to judge yourself and stream/buy the album on their bandcamp.

Seamus & Viljam at Bandcamp
Seamus & Viljam at Facebook

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