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Monkey Swallows The Universe CD Sale

January 21, 2011 Loose

As regular readers of Americana UK, we spotted that they’d listed Monkey Swallows The Universe‘s Little Polveir as their video of the day. Filmed at LOOSE’s fave west end drinking establishment – The Social. Take a look here. As has become the habit recently for us to offer you a reduced price album coinciding with [...]

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Heartworn Highways at the cinema & in the Loose shop

January 12, 2011 Loose

As part of a short Cinematic Americana season, Glasgow Film are screening Loose favourite, Heartworn Highways. Full details of the event can be found here. The screening of Heartworn Highways will be on the 30th January. Not only was this an excuse to post a picture of Townes Van Zandt, but also to remind you that [...]

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Happy Christmas From Loose Music

December 21, 2010 Loose

Folks, we are abandoning Loose HQ ’til the new year. Providing of course we can fight our way through the elements and make it to our various destinations, otherwise we may very well be stuck here for Christmas. Hopefully not. So then, ’til next year – Happy Christmas y’all, from all at Loose!

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Team Loose Pick Their Top 10 Albums 2010

December 17, 2010 Loose

Top album lists – everyone’s doing it. Why should we be any different? Head over here to take a look at Team Loose’s lists. Most popular choices seem to be John Grant, Villagers and The National. Obviously though, we have had to exclude all Loose releases, to prevent every list being taken over by the [...]

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CORB LUND’S RADIO 2 SESSION

December 3, 2010 Loose

So, Corb Lund was in session (from Nashville) on Radio 2 on Wednesday. As we mentioned. The show is online for the next week, so we thought we best provide you with the listen again link. This way then. Also, it was a good excuse to share this photo of Corb with presenter, Bob Harris. Doesn’t Bob [...]

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Corb Lund In Session On Radio 2

November 26, 2010 Loose

We highly recommend that you tune your radios in to Radio 2, this Thursday (2nd December) at 7pm. Loose legend, Corb Lund will be in session on the Bob Harris Country Show, performing some acoustic tracks. Corb’s albums, “Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer“ and, our personal favourite, “Five Dollar Bill“ are available over [...]

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Howe Gelb on BBC 6 Music

November 16, 2010 Loose

If you missed Howe Gelb in session on BBC 6 Music on Sunday, we recommend you head on over to the BBC iPlayer here and catch it while you still can. Hear Howe play a few session tracks, in amongst much flirting with Cerys Matthews.

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Loose Compilation Unearthed & In The Shop

November 3, 2010 Loose

Here at Loose Towers we’ve been having a little tidy up. It doesn’t happen very often, which is why we’ve only just re-discovered a long lost box of Loose Selections compilations from way back in 2003. 5 years worth of Loose Music – 19 tracks including The Handsome Family, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Howe Gelb’s Band [...]

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LOOSE IS EUROPEAN HOME FOR CW STONEKING AND KING HOKUM RECORDS

August 11, 2010 King Hokum

Here at Loose we are very proud to announce that we are now the European representatives for our favourite Australian musician – the incredible CW Stoneking. Check out the brilliant video to Jungle blues The album Jungle Blues gets its long-awaited European release on August 30th. Full tour details can be found here

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Playlist: Cambridge Folk Festival

July 30, 2010 Loose

This week’s playlist celebrates the Cambridge Folk Festival, with picks from: C.W.Stoneking, The Unthanks, Stornoway, Seth Lakeman and Martin Carthy. Tune in now via spotify

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