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The Last Record Store is a proud and passionate
supporter of local and national independent artists. << Look out for this symbol - these titles are currently featured on our jukebox. Click here to open a standalone player, get a feel for the music and if you like what you hear, just click Add To Cart, follow the prompts and we'll send you a CD! *NB* If you've come here via a link from an artists' site, the link may be slightly out of date and not go directly to their title(s). Below are our latest additions, or you can find who you're looking using our drop-down menu below - artists and bands are listed in alphabetical order. |
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LIZ STRINGER "PENDULUM" $25 ALSO AVAILABLE: Sensational album from another hugely talented young local, and one of the strongest debuts I reckon I've heard in - well, just about ever! Liz Stringer is a strong and beautifully expressive singer, a gutsy guitarist, plays fearless banjo and soulful harmonica, and writes great songs of dark beauty - sweet, sad, soulful and scary, hard-won and very moving. This is an album of great emotional resonance - compelling, captivating and as addictive as hell. |
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THE JUNES "THE JUNES COLLECTION" $15 AS SEEN ON TV!! For more info and sounds visit www.myspace.com/thejunestunes. |
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KEV CARMODY / VARIOUS ARTISTS "CANNOT BUY MY SOUL: THE SONGS OF KEV CARMODY" $30 Tribute CD to Kev Carmody featuring 2 CDs: one featuring some of Australia’s finest singers/songwriters paying tribute to the highly respected and admired songwriter and a second containing a number of Kev's originals. For more info visit www.kevcarmody.com.au ALSO AVAILABLE: FULL BACK CATALOGUE! "PILLARS OF SOCIETY" (1989) $30
"EULOGY (FOR A BLACK PERSON)" (1991) $30
"BLOODLINES" (1993) $30
"IMAGES AND ILLUSIONS" (1995) $30
"MIRRORS" $25
ORDER ALL FIVE BACK CATALOGUE TITLES FOR $120.00 + P&H (does not include Cannot Buy My Soul) $120.00
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THE YEARLINGS "HIGHWAY DANCING" $25 For more The Yearlings titles CLICK HERE. |
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THE YEARLINGS & SUZANNAH ESPIE W/ IAN COLLARD "THE BLESS THIS HOUSE TOUR" $25 Early in 2007, good friends The Yearlings, Suzannah Espie and Ian Collard lit out across the country on a house concert tour, playing in peoples loungerooms and backyards. This is a record of that event; live, warm and intimate. For more The Yearlings titles CLICK HERE. For more Suzannah Espie titles CLICK HERE. |
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PETE FIDLER "SLIDE NIGHT" $25 Melbourne's hottest dobro player releases a solo album, with help from an a-list of local bluegrass players including his bandmates from the Somervilles. Great originals, great playing, great record! |
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FIONA BOYES/ MOOKIE BRILL/ RICH DEL GROSSO "LIVE FROM BLUESVILLE" $25 New album from award-winning local blues performer, with Mookie Brill on upright bass and Rich Del Grosso on mandolin - recorded "live" in the studio in one four-hour session on Washington DC last year. For more Fiona Boyes titles CLICK HERE. |
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KERRI SIMSPON "MAYBE BY MIDNIGHT" $15 "Kerri Simpson has gone up the country. In the nicest possible sense. Call it alt country, call it country roots, call it what you like, there is no mistaking the deliberate venture into new territory. And it is simply brilliant! I have never heard a voice more obviously suited to the genre. There is power, there is light and shade, there are tinges of pure emotion and vocal edges that would please Ms Patsy." John Carver PBS FM For more of Kerri's titles CLICK HERE. |
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THE WAYWARD FANCIES "...MEANWHILE IN THE PARLOUR..." $25 Alison Ferrier and Julianne Negri are The Wayward Fancies - multi-talented instrumentalists and sweet harmony singers who perform an eclectic array of songs, from originals to old-timey standards, bluegrass to blues - easy on the eye, easy on the ear....... |
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DOUG ASHDOWN "THE FOLK CENTRE CONCERT" $25 Recorded live in 2006 in Adelaide For more of Doug's titles CLICK HERE. |
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CHRIS WILSON "LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL" $25 Local hero Chris Wilson's iconic recording of his 1994 show at Prahran's much loved and sorely missed Continental Cafe, with Shane O'Mara and Jex Saarelaht, has just been re-issued as a two-disc set, featuring a newly re-mastered version of the original release, along with a bonus disc featuring 6 previously unavailable extra tracks from that memorable night. ALSO AVAILABLE: |
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DEVIL GOAT FAMILY STRING BAND "FATE OF A BACHELOR" $25 12 tracks of original and traditional tunes ranging from foot-stomping hard-driving bluegrass, to lilting waltz-time ballads, Greek folk tunes and hillbilly classics. For more info see www.myspace.com/devilgoatfamilystringband
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PETER BAYLOR "I HEAR THE ROAD" $25 "This is the sound of tearing thirstily down a long, straight, empty road towards a crowded bar with a hot jukebox. The songs are crisp, tight and witty, the playing fierce or lyrical as the moment demands. This is the 100th release from Graeme Thomas' defiantly tubular and analog Preston studio." Ken Williams, The Age |
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WOODWARD & ROUGH "SWEET MILK & PEACHES" $25 Brand new follow-up to "Hometown Blues" from masterful local retro/old-timey country-blues duo Craig Woodward and Warren Rough on a great set of duets featuring guitar, fiddle, banjo and banjo-mandolin. For other Woodward & Rough titles click here. |
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C. W. STONEKING "KING HOKUM" $25 The most startlingly original album anybody's heard this year! There's a lot of wierd shit being thrown around about this record and some of it's true, but rest assured, it's real! Recommended big time! |
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SHANE HOWARD "SONGS OF LOVE AND RESISTANCE" $30 Shane Howard has surely by now earned the title of national treasure, and his ninth solo album is a further homage to simplicity and heartfelt honesty. His gentle love songs sit comfortably alongside the political and subtly seditious - God knows we need such voices now! "Shane Howard has been on the road for a long time now. His art is the story of a man who opened himself to every kind of truth he met along the way and continued as he began, gentle, loving and defiant." Martin Flanagan For other Shane Howard titles click here. |
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SUNSHINE HARVESTER "BETWEEN TRAINS: BLUEGRASS FAVOURITES " $25 Sunshine Harvester became finalists this year in three categories of the Victorian Country Music Awards including; best female vocal, best group and best song for 2005's self-titled debut album. Now they launch their highly anticipated follow-up - Between Trains - a collection of bluegrass standards as well as obscure gems featuring songs of the Stanley Brothers through to Richard Thompson. A stellar line-up signed on for this recording including; Hamish Davidson of the Davidson Brothers on banjo and Lachlan Dear of Hardrive on acoustic bass. Paul Jonas (fiddle, harmonies) and Peter Fidler (dobro) joined Moana Kerr (vocals, guitar), Leo Kahans (fiddle, mandolin, cello) and Brian Fitzgerald (lead guitar) to complete the group. For other Sunshine Harvester titles click here |
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JORDIE LANE "LOVER'S RIDE" $15
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MAURICE FRAWLEY & THE YARD HANDS "GOOD THINGS" $25 New release from one of the unsung heroes of Australian music. His new band are all crack country players, with Garrett Costigan's pedal steel playing a standout. At his finest, Frawley conjures up home-grown bar-room poetry of great resonance and poignancy. A soulful outing by a hometown diamond in the rough. |
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LIZ STRINGER "SOON" $25 Sensational new album from another hugely talented young local, and one of the strongest debuts I reckon I've heard in - well, just about ever! Liz Stringer is a strong and beautifully expressive singer, a gutsy guitarist, plays fearless banjo and soulful harmonica, and writes great songs of dark beauty - sweet, sad, soulful and scary, hard-won and very moving. This is an album of great emotional resonance - compelling, captivating and as addictive as hell. |
