Yeah!And here's the latest from the aforemenioned S.G. Goodman, with her purple state Kentucky jittery flair:My Townes Van Zandt cover of "Lungs" is now available to stream everywhere!
I'm not normally one to do covers, they often scare me. I feel it's easier to do a cover poorly than to add to something that was already probably perfect. So when the good folks at Amazon Music offered for me to take part in their Amazon Music Origial series, I was honored, but at a loss for what to do, I chose Townes Van Zandt's "Lungs" because of the odd connection he has to where I live.
Like all small towns, we have our legendary stories, and one story from Murray, KY could be found in a little lemonade stand in the middle of town. You'd drive up to Mr. Jimmy Gingles, ask for a Ginger (Fresh squeezed Lemonade, Orange Juice, and Lime) and you would see a picture of Townes hanging over Jimmy's head while he made your drink. Mr. Jimmy and Townes were friends and running buddies. He's often tell you about all the times Townes visited him in Murray and how he'd passed out on that very floor in the lemonade stand. Townes also play a few times in a bar where I cut my teeth as performer. It was a thrill to record this with my band and Matt Ross-Spang at the legendary Fame Studios. Hopefully I added to the story of Townes and my home with this cover, but like I said, it's hard to put your spin on something you've always felt was perfect.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ufqEsByELM
― dow, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 05:07 (two years ago) link
Nanci Griffith RIP. This goes over the top at first---comparing her to Elvis?---but then makes a lot of good points, like about her early international following, and emerging thusly for many:As a teenager in Philadelphia and a college student in Chicago in the eighties, I did not yet know from Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, or the Flatlanders (except for Joe Ely’s connection to the Clash). I had no idea what Houston’s Anderson Fair was, nor that I’d eventually be spending hundreds of nights of my life at a place called Hole in the Wall in Austin—venues where Griffith played. But long before the terms “alt-country” or “Americana” came along, eighties artists like Griffith, Lyle Lovett, and Steve Earle (as well non-Texans Dwight Yoakam, k.d. lang, and Rosanne Cash) weren’t that far from the post-punk I was listening to on college radio, starting with R.E.M. The same record store clerks who sold me jangly pop-inflected albums by Robyn Hitchcock, the Windbreakers, and Austin’s Zeitgeist (later the Reivers), also put a copy of Griffith’s 1987 MCA debut, Lone Star State of Mind, into my hands.https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/nanci-griffith-more-loved-than-she-knew/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Web+Social&utm_campaign=NanciGriffithObit
― dow, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
In more mundane news Maren Morris guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night and Willie Nelson was a guest
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
But yeah RIP Nanci .That farewell does nicely touch on who her songs appealed to
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
xpost Wish I'd seen that! Good?
― dow, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
I missed it. Got a pr email about it a day late.
Here's Maren talking to Willie
https://www.wideopencountry.com/maren-morris-jimmy-kimmel-live/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
Thoughts on Sierra Ferrell?
― Evan, Monday, 23 August 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Will check---meanwhile: RIP psych-folk-country pioneer Powell St. John! Very early TX colleague of Janis Joplin, later Boz Scaggs (both of whom later covered him), also wrote for 13th Floor Elevators. but I mostly know him in Mother Earth, with Tracy Nelson---this article incl link to one of their more thread-relevant tracks, "Then I'll Be Moving On" (& young:https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2021-08-23/powell-st-john-brought-us-the-message-1940-2021/?mc_cid=a929c1593a&mc_eid=d26b96d866
― dow, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
Sorry, meant to add that the article also includes a link to very pre-fame Janis singing "St. James Infirmary."
― dow, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
Anyone heard Charlie Marie's Ramble On? Classic honky tonk sound with modern stories. Really strong front to back listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1zRefWl86M
― Indexed, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXA7SjM_2w
― Murgatroid, Friday, 10 September 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
Nice, maybe a little too yachty for me in this instance, but by the same token, got the solid Top 40 structure that goes with that pic. Will check alb whenever it's out.xpost Indexed, thanks so much! I listened to the whole Ramble On and a bit more---she's the Queen of Subway Station Honky Tonk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chscjE1IQ2I
― dow, Monday, 13 September 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
Should've issued a volume warning first, but dig the acoustics.
So she doesn't really need a studio, except commercially===here's one of my faves from there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H84vL-NlZqQ
― dow, Monday, 13 September 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
Mebbe not one of her best songs, but good vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxFnjq9b5O4
― dow, Monday, 13 September 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-09-10/walker-hayes-fancy-like-applebees-commercial
Walker Hayes “Fancy Like (Applebee’s)” taking off due to tik-tok. It’s pop-country with now standard hiphop aspects.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
"Baby Shark" catchy, will check current EP (think that's what it is).
Join us on Wednesday, October 6 at 8pm EST on Sidedoor for a very special return of the Latent Lounge when we will be streaming a 70 minute pre-recorded acoustic concert featuring six brand new Cowboy Junkies songs. You can purchase tickets for the show here.https://sidedooraccess.com/shows/8LWXzL8Po02RhWlmUNLV
A couple of months ago, as Covid restrictions began to ease, a few of us who record for Latent decided to get together in a funky old converted barn, located about two hours north of Toronto, to share a few of the songs that we had been writing and developing over the past many months in isolation. Andy Maize (Skydiggers) and Michael Timmins performed a handful of songs from their Townies project; Jerry Leger and his longtime bass player Dan Mock performed five acoustic versions of songs off of Jerry's upcoming Nothing Pressing album; and Margo and Michael performed six brand new songs that they had been working on at The Barn over the previous few weeks. We brought along a couple of cameras and our recording gear and the result is the latest Latent Lounge, our third in the series. Mike, Andy and Jerry will be in attendance in the chat so please make sure to say hi!
We have intentionally kept the cost of the ticket for this event very low in hopes that many of you can donate a few more dollars to the "Legacy Of Hope Foundation". This is a Canadian Indigenous charitable organization with the mandate to educate and create awareness and understanding about the Residential School System. If you can afford it, please pay a little more for your ticket. All money collected by Latent Recordings over the $10 suggested ticket price will be donated to the Legacy of Hope Foundation. Alternatively, you can use the Donate link on the ticket site or go directly to the Legacy Of Hope website (https://legacyofhope.ca/).trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWr9Qn1eMFo
― dow, Sunday, 26 September 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Country music superstar Alan Jackson has revealed he is living with a degenerative nerve condition that is impacting his ability to tour and perform. In an exclusive interview …on NBC’s Today, Jackson went public with the news that he has inherited a rare condition known as “CMT” (Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
ooof that hurts
― Heez, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
From Miranda's newsletter:
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It’s gonna be a hell of a holiday, y’all! Pistol Annies’ first Christmas album will be out Oct. 22nd. The first song off the album, “Snow Globe,” is out now.https://pa.lnk.to/HOAH
Gotta get the T-shirt:https://✧✧✧.shop✧✧✧.com/s/files/1/0432/4033/products/front_2d7160f2-a49b-4dfa-bb4a-4e2adbf1e2fb_1024x1✧✧✧@2✧.j✧✧?v=1632969771
Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall’s The Marfa Tapes Austin City Limits episode premieres Oct. 2nd on most PBS stations! Check out your local listings to see when it airs in your town.
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― dow, Saturday, 2 October 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
T-shirt, music etc herehttps://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/--3thcAIcLKl7YyM_v9Bg-qzfkQDbZA1fOsoUE-rz7sufEpHHZ0OrFierar7y0iLYrwMPVHodvNykMC7SnOuFVrBPyjtAwDJUXBZ2WRJlSPn15wBgMxvUkpoYBCWh11QLnhp_5G2Min5epvZJz_944nVV8fS3Eji-6OMHhyIqmq96w=s0-d-e1-ft#https://email-assets.shimmer.io/guids/CABINET_a807453e993d878689c261f236db3b24/images/pahoahpreorder_eblast.gif
― dow, Saturday, 2 October 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
Ah hell, since I mentioned it: https://store.mirandalambert.com/collections/pistol-annies?utm_source=ml-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hoah-announce
Tracklist:
Hell of a HolidaySnow GlobeHarlan County CoalCome On Christmas TimeIf we make it through DecemberMake You BlueLeanin’ on JesusThe Only Thing I wantedBelievingHappy BirthdaySleigh RideJoyAuld Lang Syne
― dow, Saturday, 2 October 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
the shirt, hat and ornament look like promo items for a movie
― alpine static, Saturday, 2 October 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91HXGCUYC3L._SL1500_.jpg
― alpine static, Saturday, 2 October 2021 04:58 (two years ago) link
late pass but Kalie Shorr's "Amy" is some primo fueled by cornpone mash up action
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
Word. ust now, upside ooh my head: Kalie Shorr's refreshing, somewhut startling country pop singles in 2021, "Amy" and "Love Child," both self-writ. Her xpost Dixie Chicks 3-song EP is prob okay too, but why beg comparisons. 2019's blazin' Open Book was Top Ten for me, haven't yet heard 2020's Unabridged edition of that. Meet her at the crossroads, braced: http://www.kalieshorr.com/
― dow, Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Ashley McBryde can be the xpost Nicholson figure (listen to Never Will and u will Know)
― dow, Monday, 4 October 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
Thoughts on Sierra Ferrell? EvanLatest album, first of hers I've heard, is so good? Commen 'tater here immediately invokes Patsy Cline, otm to too on the nose a couple times maybe, as arrangements push the cuetness, but in a flirtatious way, and could happen w production of Cline. Singing and songs always right, and she's also mountain or post-mountain, incl. the closer, where yet another female country artist bids a bittersweet farewell-for-now to the old hometown-mindset etc.---never heard a guy singer do this----good of its kind, strong closer.https://sierraferrell.bandcamp.com/album/long-time-coming
― dow, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
is so good*!* Ah meant to type.
― dow, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
is there a Stina Nordenstam thing going on here with Sierra Ferrell or is it just me?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
It may or may not be just you, but sure ain't me, Hand.
― dow, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
i'm seeing Ferrell soon, live, and will report back, fellow Rolling Country-ers
― alpine static, Friday, 8 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
omG yall (the Reader's Digest edition):
BRANDI CARLILE’S IN THESE SILENT DAYSDEBUTS AT #1 ON BILLBOARD AMERICANA/FOLK ALBUMS CHART, TOPROCK ALBUMS CHART AND TASTEMAKERALBUMS CHART, #3 ON TOP ALBUM SALESCHART “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” DEBUT CONFIRMED FOR OCTOBER 23
Recorded once again at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A with producers Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings, the album features Carlile (vocals, guitar, piano), Tim Hanseroth (vocals, bass), Phil Hanseroth (vocals, guitar), Cobb (guitar, percussion) and Jennings (piano, organ, synth) as well as Chris Powell (drums, percussion), Josh Neumann (strings) and special guests Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius on backing vocals on the track “You And Me On The Rock.”Reflecting on the album, Carlile shares, “Never before have the twins and I written an album during a time of such uncertainty and quiet solitude. I never imagined that I’d feel so exposed and weird as an artist without the armor of a costume, the thrill of an applause and the platform of the sacred stage. Despite all this, the songs flowed through—pure and unperformed, loud and proud, joyful and mournful. Written in my barn during a time of deep and personal reckoning.There’s plenty reflection…but mostly it’s a celebration. This album is what drama mixed with joy sounds like. It’s resistance and gratitude, righteous anger and radical forgiveness. It’s the sound of these silent days.”
photo credit: Neil KrugAdding to yet another monumental year, Carlile will once again perform Joni Mitchell’s legendary album Blue in full at Carnegie Hall on November 6. Additionally, her wildly successful “Girls Just Wanna Weekend” will return February 1-5, 2022. The sold-out vacation destination event held at Mexico’s Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya will once again feature an all-female-fronted lineup including performances by Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Tanya Tucker, Indigo Girls, Lucius, Margo Price, Yola, KT Tunstall, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah and Katie Pruitt as well as special guests. See below for complete tour itinerary IN THESE SILENT DAYS TRACKLIST1. Right On Time2. You And Me On The Rock3. This Time Tomorrow4. Broken Horses5. Letter To The Past6. Mama Werewolf7. When You’re Wrong8. Stay Gentle9. Sinners Saints And Fools10.Throwing Good After BadBRANDI CARLILE CONFIRMED TOUR DATESNovember 6—New York, NY—Carnegie Hall (SOLD OUT)February 1-5, 2022—Riviera Maya, Mexico—Girls Just Wanna Weekend (SOLD OUT)April 29, 2022—Indio, CA—Stagecoach Music Festival
― dow, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
Listened to this the other day and wasn't crazy about it. She is always someone, for me, who walks right on the line of "not for me". Sometimes she is brilliant and sometimes she just steps right over that line. More the latter than the former on this particular album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Good review of the new Natalie Hemby album from Alfred: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/natalie-hemby-pins-and-needles/
Haven't listened yet but Puxico would make my top 20 country albums of the 10's so quite excited to hear this.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
Went back to Eric Church's Heart & Soul and was surprised how many of the melodies had stayed with me over the last six months. I think I wrote it off as gimmicky with the triple-album concept but there's a lot of vintage Church charm and writing (as well as schmaltz, but that's Church).
― Indexed, Thursday, 21 October 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
I didn’t know Natalie Hemby before, though I guess I knew her through the folks she writes for. Tried out both her albums - like ‘em both though I gravitated to the rootsier Puxico more
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 21 October 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
So far I find Billy Joe Shaver & Kinky Friedman Live From Down Under (Omnivore, 2021) refreshingly plain & vivid: very clear sound, w a couple of steel-string acoustics, lead & rhythm, some pienner; that's all they need. Shaver's songs & singin' do their sincere, slick, hooky thing, as expected, but also Friedman is surprisingly affecting---I'd previously mostly rated him for "Ride 'Em. Jewboy," which is here, and low-key but pointed and poignant, and "My Shit's Fucked Up," which is not here----maybe Zevon hadn't yet sent this, one of his last dispatches, and one of his strongest, funniest and scariest ever. Uh-oh: a degree of sincerity seems, as it always has, to extend to KF's own "Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns in the Bed" ("Wimmen's LIberation has done gone to your head"). Shaver finished with a song he says he's written after the recent deaths of his wife and son (press sheet adds his mother, also his recent heart attack and surger, incl. refused follow-up).Backstory and setlist:Ladies and gentlemen, two Texas legends, Billy Joe Shaver and Kinky Friedman!” announced Jeff “Little Jewford” Shelby before the nightly coin toss to decide who in this dynamic double-bill, quadruple heart bypass contender Billy Joe or singing crime novelist Kinky would go first. The spotlight then passed back and forth between the duo, supported in Vaudevillian fashion by guitarist Jesse Taylor, Washington Ratso and of course Little Jewford.
Depending on how you look at it or who’s talking, the Live Down Under tour probably shouldn’t have happened or it was the best thing that could’ve happened. Either way, it was a minor miracle most would say and now a thing of myth and legend.
It started when Shaver, still recovering from the loss of his mother, wife and son was lured out of mourning in 2001 by the Kinkster to do their “Two For Texas” tour that ended with Billy Joe unexpectedly suffering a heart attack at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas that August. Angioplasty was performed but Shaver, fearing the risks, was resisting medical advice to have quadruple heart by-pass surgery taking karmic instruction from Willie (Nelson) to get out and stay active. Soon commitments to bring the tour to Australia were made.
Kinky Friedman: “The doctors wanted him to have the surgery but he said no. And they didn’t want him going to Australia with Kinky. That it was the wrong thing to do. But Billy Joe was in a dark place; the recent family tragedies, the health concerns. Staying home with the curtains drawn and all its temptations seemed as risky as going. Willie and I both agreed, the best therapy he could have was to get out and have a good time.”
And it was.
Billy Joe performed every night like his life depended on it. And it did. And it pushed everyone to the same level of intensity. Featuring hits like ”Honky Tonk Heroes,” “You Asked Me To,” ”Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed,” “Sold American” and more, showcasing some of the best material from both writers’ storied careers, and delivered in a way that only these best friends and odd couple could. So put on Live Down Under, sit back, listen and perhaps come to appreciate these two unique artists in a way you hadn’t before. A one-of-a-kind experience.
CD / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:INTRO COIN TOSSGEORGIA ON A FAST TRAINWESTERN UNION WIRESTAR IN MY HEARTRAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTAOLD CHUNK OF COALSOLD AMERICANRIDE ME DOWN EASYWILD MAN FROM BORNEOWHEN THE FALLEN ANGELS FLYMARILYN AND JOEYOU ASKED ME TOBEFORE ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSEHONKY TONK HEROESGET YOUR BISCUITS IN THE OVEN AND YOUR BUNS IN THE BEDLIVE FOREVERYOU WOULDN’T KNOW LOVE (IF YOU FELL IN IT)RIDE ‘EM JEWBOYOLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE MEKEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDETRY AND TRY AGAINOUTRO THANKS AND GOOBYE!Cat: OV-453
― dow, Friday, 22 October 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
From Numero:
Driftless DreamersIN CUCA COUNTRY
ome to Cuca Records and hundreds of Nashville-fantasizing pluckers and singers, Wisconsin’s Driftless region was a hotbed of country music in the 1960s. Influenced by old-timey ethnic songs, Bakersfield outlaws, countrypolitan rainbows, and the lonesome twang of every rural route roadhouse, these 17 Driftless Dreamers washed up at Jim Kirchstein’s Sauk City record plant with little more than $100 and a longing. Collected here are the fruits of Cuca’s documentary approach to record making, capturing the voices and stories of a culture and glacier in abatement.more details, trailer:https://numerogroup.com/products/driftless-dreamers-in-cuca-country?mc_cid=92e2da2749&mc_eid=348950ba0d
― dow, Saturday, 23 October 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
"Influenced by old-timey ethnic songs, Bakersfield outlaws, countrypolitan rainbows, and the lonesome twang of every rural route roadhouse"
i'm sorry this clause is cringe af
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
written by an AI? a glaswegian?
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
Numero house style, but if I squint, seems like it might be promising; they compile better than they write ( & "countrypolitan rainbows" is fair)
― dow, Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
old-timey ethnic songs looks weird but might be like Carolina Chocolate Drops' sources (other than their Blu Cantrell cover)
― dow, Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Which is great btw
― dow, Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
the album itself looks interesting. kinda forksbait description tbh, cringe and all.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
From Steve Earle's newsletter:
7th Annual John Henry's Friends ConcertSteve is excited to announce the 7th Annual John Henry's Friends Benefit Concert which will take place on December 13th at The Town Hall in New York City! Hosted by Steve Earle, the event will feature performances from Steve Earle & The Dukes, Bruce Springsteen, Rosanne Cash, The Mastersons*, Willie Nile, and Matt Savage.All proceeds from this event, as has been the case with each of the previous John Henry’s Friends Benefit concerts, will be donated to The Keswell School, an educational program for children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Founded on the belief that children diagnosed with ASD can live full and productive lives as integrated members of their communities, The Keswell School provides educational, therapeutic, and supportive services for children diagnosed with ASD and their families. Steve’s son, John Henry, is a student of the school. His son w Alison Moorer.
Stay tuned for more details on general admission tickets. VIP expensive, but various options in that section, good cause: https://citywinery.com/newyork/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=NYC-Steve-Ear
*The Mastersons core: Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore, in Earle's band for quite a while, have recorded some good music of their own, and may have full Matersons band here, I guess.
Also:"Coal Country" Out Now on Audible"Coal Country", the play written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen with original music by Steve, is now available in the Audible Theatre’s virtual library. Dig deep into the lives and loss of the most deadly mining disaster in recent U.S. history.
Think this is where The Ghosts of West Viginia came from?
And another Audible Steve:(The Moment in) 1965 (When Rock and Roll Becomes Art) is also available now on Audible as part of their Words + Music series. Recorded in 2021 at Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, New York City, listen to Steve speak and sing from his beloved, adopted neighborhood - the birthplace of a musical revolution.
But wait, there's more! Special colored vinyl editions on New West.
― dow, Thursday, 28 October 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
Black Nashville Americana scene getting npr attention
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/29/1050322605/new-roots-black-musicians-and-advocates-are-forging-coalitions-outside-the-syste
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 October 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
I'm digging the fuck outta the Lainey Wilson album several months later.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 October 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
Thanks, will check! Yall have turned me onto great stuff this year.From Willie Nelson Family's s/t---fam vocals here work, I think, ditto Bobbie's keys, as always---somehow I've never heard the George Harrison original---it is his, right?---seems like his kind of strong-enough framework + reflectionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95xfVmz4uy0
― dow, Friday, 29 October 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Ann Powers shared a playlist on Twitter earlier this week of various country/americana acts from 2021 which has turned me onto a few that are new to me:
--Lula Wiles, "Shame and Sedition": not exactly country or americana but very nice. Kinda similar to the Staves (whose album from this year I've been enjoying a lot this year), perhaps a skosh darker.
--Tre Burt, "You Yeah You": low-key, Dylan-esque songwriter which I'm enjoying a lot so far
--Kirby Brown, "Break into Blossom" is probably the most country of this batch though still on the folkier side of things.
Anyway, I bookmarked another 10-12 artists from this playlist to explore. Overall a pretty varied mix of mainstream/pop country, old-timey revivalists, and low-key songwriters. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RwmljYV2GYBcMzxHdLO6o?si=230f422319b34ac7
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
Thanks. RC has led me to a lotta good stuff this year.Hype of the day:Imagine three blond, three-chord rocker fellers backing a hot brunette neo-Linda Ronstadt/Rosanne Cash lead singer, to tunes out of The Cars meet The Chicks. It’s been eight years since they began, yet odds are you’ve never heard them, nor of them, even close to their Nashville roots. But this is a band you should know about.
Listening to the RNB for the first time feels like they’re already inside your head, drawing on rockabilly, British rock, thrash, and outlaw country priors, with hard-driving, toe-tapping, smile-inducing originals. A good place to start is the Raelyn Nelson Band’s website, featuring the low-budget video for “Friend,” a kickass action-comedy accompanying her classic breakup song, punctuated with Raelyn’s refrain “I may be small, but I am pretty strong” summing up her infectious persona.
After a first addictive taste, the band’s album-length 2019 release, Don’t—with its cover art homage to the classic Clash London Calling album—is the way to go, either streaming or on CD. The collection includes wasted, brash, and woo-manly anthems like “Weed and Whiskey,” “Nothing On,” and “Rebel Girl.” Order a small-batch CD online and Raelyn mails it out personally, scrawling her autograph in red Pentel. She may add a free black and white sticker proclaiming, “I SMOKED WEED WITH WILLIE NELSON’S GRANDDAUGHTER.”from https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/seen-future-willie-nelson-granddaughter-174355623.htmTheir music is self-released, with several videos online. He saus they're hot live, but so many dayjobs etc. only ten gigs a year---not bad for 2020, and maybe since.
― dow, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
Anybody heard the Emily Scott Robinson album? One of my most anticipated of the year.
― Indexed, Friday, 5 November 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link