Voices and Guitars: Douglas E Powell, Jim Gardner plays banjo on Birth, Birds and Trees
Influences
In no particular order.
Burt Jansch, Willy Mason, Pete Bruntnell, Vic Chesnut, The Beach Boys, Stocks and Powell, Fairport Convention, A man simply known as Da Cat, Bright Eyes, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, DJ Shadow, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Ramones, CP Mandrake, Sonic Youth, The East Street Maritime Folk Collective, Alan Bennett, Nick Drake, Bright Eyes, Gram Parsons, My Local break - Saunton Beach, Cornelius, Bill Fay, Loretta Lynn, Gary Higgins, Billy Bragg, Black Sabbath, Gillian Welch, Neil Young, Beck, Tommy Guerrero, Chatham County Line.
Sounds Like
The Iron Coast is the second studio album from Devon based songwriter Douglas E Powell. It's available to buy from Twister Valley Records (cat Number TVR002).
The Iron Coast is also available to buy on line at douglasepowell.co.uk also from Fivetrees and can be downloaded from Lastfm
The Still and West was the first studio album from Devon based songwriter Douglas E Powell. It's available to buy from Twister Valley Records (cat Number TVR001).
The Still and West is also available to buy on line at douglasepowell.co.uk also from Fivetrees
Douglas E Powell's own take on folk and Americana has earned him great respect from fans of his music all over the world.
Choosing to play solely with acoustic guitar and harmonica, Douglas tips his hat to his musical heroes Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Burt Jansch.
His live performances are intensely charged with deeply personal lyrics over gritty and beautifully simplistic guitar work.
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We just recently finished our EP and are so proud, all the hard work payed off! If you have a few minutes please give it a listen and tell us what you think :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol.
"The overall sound echoes that of Bloc Party but with greater conviction and sophistication. Go see them live if you can." - iTunes review.
It's also available to buy through our website and itunes if you really do like it.
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Hello, we're back again with great new tracks on our page. This month we have some rural bleakness from The Roe Family Singers, the dark intensity of Eamon Dowd, a new song from roots legend Neal Casal and frenetic but compelling from Novillero on the delightfulyl titled but not-at-all-smelly Paco Rabanne. Hope you like them all.
Hello and a Happy New Year to you. An eclectic bunch of songs new to the site this month. The frankly uncategorisable Icelandic band Storsveut Nix Noltes, the sardonic lyics (plus ukelele) of Dent May. some dark folk from The Deep Dark Woods and emerging US singer-songrwiter Israel Nash. Hope you like them all.
I had a really good time, and enjoyed both of your sets. Make sure you get Neil to let me know in advance next time you're coming up, so I can perhaps get in on some drinking action with you all the night before the gig. Mmmm. The Plough.
