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The Wayside Ballads Vol 2 - A Review

The Wayside Ballads Vol 2 – A Review

    Bill Jackson Returns With More Vivid and Engrossing Tales

Album Launch July 28 @ The Spotted Mallard

This is a lively and welcome follow-up to Bill Jackson‘s  The Wayside Ballads Vol 1(2015), which was a colourful and insightful collection of tales about some larger-than-life personalities, many of whom have been unfortunately well forgotten.  That release breathed new life into some…

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Little Rabbit Album Launch - Feb 4 2016

Little Rabbit Album Launch – Feb 4 2016

Little Rabbit – photo by Jim Jacob

Kat Mear and Kimberley Wheeler – photo by Jim Jacob

  Talented bluegrass and traditional string outfit Little Rabbit officially launch their new CD Watching Over Joan this coming Thursday 4 February at the Spotted Mallard in Brunswick, Melbourne.

Little Rabbit is Pete Fidler (dobro, mandolin, vocals), Kat Mear (fiddle, banjo, vocals) and Kimberley Wheeler (uprigh…

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More Wayside Ballads From Bill Jackson

More Wayside Ballads From Bill Jackson

Bill Jackson – photo by Tacy Judd

Bill Jackson Wayside Ballads Vol. 2

To Be Released Around March 2016

Bill Jackson has staked a claim as a fine singer and songwriter (the latter with brother Ross) with a well-honed and unashamedly Australian sensibility and focus.

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Bill Jackson Finds The Wayside - A Review

Bill Jackson Finds The Wayside – A Review

Wayside – noun – The side or edge of a road, way, path or highway; adjective – situated at or near the side of a road, way, path or highway

Common idiom: fall by the wayside = to fail to continue, give up

After listening to Bill Jackson’s The Wayside Ballads Vol 1 (2015 -Laughing Outlaw Records), I thought I’d better double-check the meaning of waysideas it is core to the title and key to…

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