Hello Cruel World is Proper Music’s Country Album of the Year!
December 18, 2012
Proper Music has named Hello Cruel World the Country Album of 2012 in its Best Albums of 2012 list! Hello Cruel World has already made numerous other year-end lists; a few of the highlights are listed here:
AllMusic’s Favorite Country Albums of 2012
No Depression’s Top 50 Favorite Albums of 2012 (Hello Cruel World at #13)
WFUV’s John Platt’s Faves of 2012
KDHX’s Ed Becker’s Top 10 albums of 2012
Engine 145′s Top Albums of 2012
Twang Nation’s Cream of the Crop 2012
Mando Lines (No Depression) Top 10 from 2012 (at #2)
The Telegraph’s (UK) 10 Great Roots albums of 2012
Dutch magazine Heaven’s “shortlist” of the Best Albums of 2012 and #3 in the 2012 Listener’s Poll
- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, UK) Top 10 Singer-Songwriter albums “As good as Emmylou Harris’ landmark Wrecking Ball and a future classic.”
EuroAmericana’s 2012 Yearlist (at #7)
Folk Alley’s Listener Poll for Favorite Music of 2012
Folk Alley Top Picks by hosts Elena See and Linda Fahey
And finally, Hello Cruel World comes in at #30 for radio airplay on the Americana Music Association’s Top 100 Americana albums of 2012! (to see the full list click on Top 100 albums on the right hand side of the site)
June 22nd
Brewery Arts Centre
Kendal, UKTime: 7:30PM
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City: Kendal
Country: UK
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June 23rd
Beverley Folk Festival Main Stage
Beverley, UKJune 25th
The High Barn
Great Bardfield, Essex, UKTime: 8:00PM
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City: Great Bardfield
State: Essex
Country: UK
Phone: 01371 811 291
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June 26th
The Church of St John the Evangelist
Oxford, UKTime: 8PM
Address: 109a Iffley Road
City: Oxford
Country: UK
Phone: 01296 748 268
Price: £18 in advance, £20 at the door
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June 27th
The Alban Arena
St. Albans, UKTime: 7:30PM
Address: Civic Centre
City: St. Albans
Country: UK
Phone: 01727 844488
Price: £19.50
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June 28th
Ropetackle Centre
Shoreham-By-Sea, UKTime: 8PM
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Country: UK
Phone: 01273 464440
Price: £18.50
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June 30th
Glastonbury Festival
Pilton, Somerset, UKJuly 1st
Artrix
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City: Bromsgrove
Country: UK
Phone: 01527 577330
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50 years on
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