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Ruston Kelly - Dying Star (Album Review)

September 06, 2018 by David Vousden in Album Reviews, Americana, Country, Singer-Songwriter

Ruston Kelly has one of those back stories so strange you couldn’t make it up. Born in South Carolina Kelly's early childhood was fragmented as his dad worked in paper mills and travelled often for work, so every couple of years the family upped sticks. In his early teens Kelly hoped for a career in figure skating, so he moved to Michigan and joined an Olympic coaching team, which proved to be a very tough and lonely existence. Those dreams didn’t pan out, but with the music of Jackson Browne and his dad’s old guitar for company, the songwriting seed was sown. It wasn’t until his senior year in high school that he discovered The Carter Family and Johnny Cash in, of all places, the Belgium city of Brussels that things really started to click. At seventeen he returned to the USA and moved in with his sister in Nashville. Eventually, in 2013 a publishing deal was signed and Kelly placed songs with Josh Abbott and Tim McGraw — that helped pay the rent — before he snagged his own record deal and released the ‘Halloween’ EP in 2017 to impressive reviews.

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September 06, 2018 /David Vousden
Ruston Kelly, Kacey Musgraves, Joy Williams
Album Reviews, Americana, Country, Singer-Songwriter
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Johnny Cash - Forever Words (Album Review)

April 23, 2018 by David Vousden in Album Reviews, Americana, Bluegrass, Country

Growing up there was one album that never seemed to be very far from the old stereo in the back room (as we called it) of my family home. That album was ‘Johnny Cash at San Quentin’ and to this day I can’t hear that album and not think of my Dad. There always seems to be a debate over the Prison albums but for me, it’ll always be ‘San Quentin’ that I’ll reach for and Johnny Cash would, in a roundabout way, become the inspiration for Red Guitar Music, but that’s another story. I have a good deal of respect for John Carter Cash and the Cash family who’ve treated the Cash catalogue, in the nearly fifteen years since Johnny Cash passed with great dignity. No signs of mud-slinging and courtroom battles here, maybe the likes of the Zappa and Prince families should take note.

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April 23, 2018 /David Vousden
Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Kacey Musgraves, T Bone Burnett, Rosanne Cash, John Mellencamp, Jewel, Elvis Costello, Carlene Carter, Dailey & Vincent, I'm With Her, Robert Glasper, Ro James, The Jayhawks, Jamey Johnson, Alison Krauss
Album Reviews, Americana, Bluegrass, Country
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The RGM Christmas Music Round-Up 2016

December 08, 2016 by David Vousden in Folk, Country, Christmas, Traditional, Holiday, Album Reviews

With the holiday season fast approaching the Red Guitar Music team thought it might be time to take a look at some of the seasonal music released this year. Now I will admit, grudgingly, to having a reputation for being a little bah humbug with regard to all things tinsel and fairy lights. Rumours that I make Ebenezer Scrooge look like Father Christmas are really only rumours (honest) so without further ado here is the Red Guitar Music Xmas round-up.

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December 08, 2016 /David Vousden
Loretta Lynn, Tommy Emmanuel, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Kacey Musgraves, Chris Young, Cara Dillon
Folk, Country, Christmas, Traditional, Holiday, Album Reviews
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