Full disclosure, I've done some writing for the roll-out of this album, but it's just wonderful, wonderful:
https://soundcloud.com/secretcityrecords/03-leif-vollebekk-elegy
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Really love that Duke Garwood album.
― john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
woah I had totally forgotten about Leif Vollebekk, love this guy's previous album, that's great news
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
new julie byrne record is extremely nicehttps://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/not-even-happiness
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah the julie byrne is nice
here's something else in that vein, from Hand Habits aka Meg Duffy
https://handhabits.bandcamp.com/album/wildly-idle-humble-before-the-void-2
― Dinsdale, Friday, 10 February 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link
I'm very much into this French guy right now:
https://talitres.bandcamp.com/album/the-silver-veil
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 4 June 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
I saw that on the overlooked albums thread, that is a great release. Raoul Vignal's soft whisper and his fluid restrained guitar play remind me a little of Nick Drake. Vignal is more serene than melancholic though. So tender and smooth, perfect lullabye music.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
Bands I really should explore more of part #123: Elephant Micah.
This version of Still Life Blues is so fucking good.
https://youtu.be/_1eqA681el4
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 20 October 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
this guy from Portland should be much better known, his 2017 album is excellent:
https://jeffreymartinportland.bandcamp.com/album/one-go-around
― alpine static, Friday, 1 December 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
This new Lotte Kestner record is right up my alley. You know the deal by now: melancholic tunes ala Marissa Nadler, Alela Diane etc.
― Dinsdale, Monday, 8 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
It's quietly been quite a good year for Americana/Roots records. Amanda Shires released a fantastic album. But the one I want to tell you all about is Life Ain't That Long by Rich Krueger. It's his debut album, he's a 58 year old neonatal doctor from Chicago who happens to be a fantastic songwriter.
If you like this genre, you will love this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_gKj7hS6OQ
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Nice tune, but just once I'd like to hear one of these guys play a chord that can't be found within the first three pages of the Mel Bay Beginner Guitar Method Vol. 1
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjB3Qwjcimw
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
she knows a lot of chords
You are right about the chords but it'd be better if she would not sing.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
I made it about twenty seconds into that one
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
she's great but she already has two threads of her own! (for Big Thief and solo work)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
I have never heard of this person but that's some of the most insufferable singing I have heard in a long time. Sorry.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
tbf that's by some distance as out-there/incantative as her vocals get, stuff like "cradle" and "womb" are more representative
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link