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Jeremy Threlfall


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Post  Posted 17 Dec 2014 10:00 pm    
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A heads up for those who know me, or who are otherwise interested. Ralway Bell has issued its debut EP, which is available on Bandcamp, and a teaser with 20 seconds or so of each song is on the band's FB page. Tracks 2 and 4 ("Maybe You were Right" and "Ballad of Bobby Stone the Bullrider") are the tracks with discernable pedal steel on them. Tracks 1 and 3 have no pedal steel, and I am doing my 6 string thing on them ....

Don't get too excited. There is nothing flash in the PS department, I am a hack player

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Jeremy Threlfall


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Post  Posted 18 Dec 2014 9:54 pm    
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There is a 29 November post on the Ralway Bell FB page that streams the entire EP and you can flip between tracks if you are interested to listen to some of it.

https://www.facebook.com/ralwaybell

I wouldn't call it country in any traditional sense - its more Aussie-fied Americana
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Jeffery Self


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Post  Posted 18 Dec 2014 10:00 pm    
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Knew a fella out of Spring TX by the name of Rocky Stone, who was a Bullrider & rodeo clown.
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Jeremy Threlfall


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Post  Posted 18 Dec 2014 10:07 pm    
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well, interesting coincidence. This guy was Bobby Stone, cousin to the singer and songwriter in this band.

The whole family are horsemen, including the women

They are all from New South Wales in Australia
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Jeffery Self


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Post  Posted 18 Dec 2014 10:12 pm    
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COOOOOOOL Cool Very Happy Cool
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Don R Brown


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Post  Posted 19 Dec 2014 6:01 am    
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Jeffery Self wrote:
Knew a fella out of Spring TX by the name of Rocky Stone, who was a Bullrider & rodeo clown.


"Rocky Stone" Now there's a neat name for ya!
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Jeremy Threlfall


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Post  Posted 8 Jan 2015 7:07 pm    
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Ben and I will be doing a live-to-radio performance tonight sometime between 6.30-7.30 Western Audstralian (Perth) time [i.e. in about 7.5 hours from now]

It will be a quiet duo performance of "Bullrider Bobby Stone" and "Maybe You Were Right" from our recent EP "I am a Superhero"

The radio station is called Western.Oz, details on our Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/ralwaybell) where you can also stream the EP if you want to listen to it

"Perthonalities can tune into Western.Oz tonight on 89.7FM to catch Ralway Bell playing a couple of live tracks! The rest of you can stream it here: http://www.897fm.com.au/listen/ from 6pm WST tonight!!!"
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Jeremy Threlfall


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Post  Posted 22 Jan 2015 6:48 pm    
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review from The Equal Ground

you need to scroll down to the eighth review

"stellar production", "irresistible pedal steel"

not a bad review for a website that doesn't favour country music

http://www.theequalground.com/indie-music-album-reviews
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Jeremy Threlfall


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Post  Posted 26 Jan 2015 10:19 pm    
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Here's another review ...

this one from Ireland. Unfortunately I think it has been translated from the Gaelic to English, and reads like a Japanese whitegoods instruction manual from the 1960's - I get positive vibes from it, nonetheless!

Freemantle band Ralway Bell come to us via our Perth music network. They retain an accountable level of purpose in their music that neatly cuts loose. In how the Americana subtlties rise in the delivery it demands fo your attention. Duly engaging on all fronts there is a hardened keel that processes the elements in a distinguished way which comes off in a dedicated way here. In the thores of the passive style they graduate all of those elements in a realised way. The flow to everything is polished but there is a definitive level of substance hiding away in the lyrics which is very kind to the delivery each time. A broader feel comes to pass among the hardened showing that comfortably keeps everything moving. They seem to display a steady hand which holds over everything cleverly by design. It is the way it is carried off in the Americana impulses that brings forth the more honest characteristics that are threaded through here with real class.



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Charlie McDonald


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Post  Posted 27 Jan 2015 4:24 am    
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote but that sounds good, the steel on Maybe You Were Right and Bullrider.

'In the thores of the passive style they graduate all of those elements in a realised way.'
I think it's a rave in a gentle Irish way; I'd have to read it in Gaelic to be sure.
The music is too original to just be Americana, and a long way from Ireland methinks.
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Joachim Kettner


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Post  Posted 27 Jan 2015 6:03 am    
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I hope your music finds a young fan base. I'm definetly to old to find this moving. It has an eighties vibe: REM, Game Theory etc.
Sorry Jeremy, but that's how I see it for myself.
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Jeremy Threlfall


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Post  Posted 28 Jan 2015 12:20 am    
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thanks for the feedback, fellas!
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