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Get your copy of "Don't Hurry for Heaven" by Devon Sproule this week only for a discounted price! Click on 'featured release' at the right of this page to access this sweet deal!

"Like a Joni Mitchell or a Rickie Lee Jones, Devon Sproule makes distinctive and uncompromising music that ex- presses her unique sensibility and vision. Her quivery, almost childlike singing hark- ens back to a classic scratchy country record played on a Victrola phonograph." (singout magazine)

This week only!! Jenny Whiteley's critically acclaimed album "Dear" is available at a discounted price! Click on 'featured release' at the right of this page to buy!

"Dear, the third solo album from acclaimed Juno-award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Jenny Whiteley, is a joy to listen to from beginning to end. Accompanied by a range of musicians including Broken Social Scene’s Amy Milan, Joey Wright (who plays with Sarah Harmer) and brother Chris, Whiteley’s clear impressive voice and heartfelt lyrics are displayed on songs which blend traditional folk and roots with more modern elements and sounds. As would befit a former member of bluegrass band Heartbreak Hill, she makes a lovely foray into pure roots music with “Banjo Girl”, but all the tracks are strong, from opening “Lightning”, which puts the listener in mind of Laura Cantrell, to the more country pop of “Take Your Time And Do It Right”. On “Other Side Of Life” her sweet voice is the perfect foil to Jim Byrnes’s gruff country vocal. A beautiful, well crafted collection of songs."

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John Boutte will be replaced by Stephen Fearing for Concert #3 at The Electric Owl, which will take place at Vancouver's cozy new venue on Main St.~The Electric Owl.

These shows have been packed with great audiences, so please get your tickets soon, and arrive early to get good seats, and dinner before the show!

Next Concert features Steve Dawson & his stellar house band opening for, and backing up Stephen Fearing on Sunday, May 27th, 2012. See you there!!

Get tickets, and more information here: http://www2.capilanou.ca/news-events/nscucentre/season/black-hen-music.h...

Check out this great review of the Alvin Youngblood Hart/Steve Dawson concert! Thanks to The Georgia Straight for this awesome write up of last night's performance, Concert #2 in the Black Hen at The Electric Owl Concert series....

http://www.straight.com/article-672846/vancouver/alvin-youngblood-hart-l...

Click on "Featured Release" on the right hand side of this page to buy "Everywhere West" for a discounted price, this week only!

"Everywhere West is especially tasty, a rich blues set from folks who love doing blues and know how to do blues right. Most satisfying." — MT (SingOut Magazine)

Here's a new interview with Kelly Joe Phelps in No Depression Magazine by Doug Heselgrave, done while Kelly Joe was in Vancouver making his new record "Brother Sinner and The Whale": http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/playing-with-all-ten-fingers-...

Presenting Cameron Latimer's "Fallen Apart" as this week's Deal of the Week!

SIMPLY CLICK ON "FEATURED RELEASE" AT THE RIGHT OF THIS PAGE TO BUY THIS CD for 3 dollars off this week only!

Here's a fine review of "Fallen Apart"....

"Latimer's sound is predominantly acoustic and raw with little accompaniment except his guitar. There is a mix of songs that make you want to sit on a stump and have a good cry and others that make you want to grab a partner and head to a barn dance. The album seems to be the story of a heartbroken cowboy lamenting about his loss and other problems in his lonely rancher life. In the end though there is the sense that this cowboy is strong and will have the courage to move on after such devastation and heartache.

The contrast of slow, melodic songs with bouncy, toe-tapping ones makes for a great album. While listening to the album there is a feeling of swaying in your hammock on a lazy summer day or loping along on your horse without a care in the world. If I ever went on a hayride, this would be the music I would bring.

Latimer uses the usual topics of traditional country songs (drinking, hayfields, cattle, heartache) but somehow they feel more heartfelt and wholesome than simply a song about someone shooting his "paw." While Latimer may not be a true cowboy, what matters is that he is a true musician."

(Tessa Perkins~AnEVibe.com)

Go to Facebook and "like" Black Hen Music at the Electric Owl to be entered to win a pair of tickets to the April 29th show featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart with Steve Dawson and the Black Hen House Band in Vancouver!

Join us at the Electric Owl on Main Street on Sunday April 29 for your chance to see Steve Dawson and the Black Hen House Band with the incomparable Alvin Youngblood Hart, from Memphis, TN. This will be a fabulous concert, not to be missed! The first concert last week with Colin James sold out quickly, so get your tickets early!!! All ticket and concert info can be found here...

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