Re Mattei “Stories Lived” Re Mattei has a new album just out, Stories Lived. Her music is a version of heartland country, with driving rhythms and vocals that provide a timeless big stage feel. Not a flashy pop “big stage” over the top entertainment feel; this is a driving, Charlie Daniels or Shania Twain quality […]
Josh Orange The Fire and The Call Josh Orange is a modern roots rock band that hails from Sydney, Australia and makes emotionally resonant modern Americana styled music, while also employing ambience, keys and delays to create a dreamlike context of inner thoughts and dialogue and then trades that off for soaring electronic expansive rock. […]
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Dave Perkins Powderhead Dave Perkins is a multi media artist who paints, writes, plays guitar and writes songs, with a new album of dark Southern Gothic pieces, Powderhead. His whiskey-soaked vocals are gritty and sometimes Dylanesque but they can also rise powerfully to fill a whole room. Stripped down with acoustic guitar some of the […]
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Ned Farr & The Good Red Road Ruminations Ned Farr & The Good Red Road started their journey in New York City in 1993. After 30 years of building a foundation as an Americana/folk-rock band, with their new album Ruminations, out October 2, their signature style takes more of a jazz fusion, jazz rock turn […]
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Nicole Mish Hope is Restless Hope is Restless is the new album of heart searching folk songs out this week, courtesy of San Francisco based folk artist, songwriter and musician Nicole Mish. The operative quest within these songs is to consider how do we hold onto hope, and what does hope feel like? Sometimes it’s […]
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Floyds Row The Carlisle Sessions Floyds Row is releasing their new EP The Carlisle Sessions this week, with authentically delivered traditional folk songs and an original song to round it out that sounds like a recently discovered long-lost addition to the canon. Floyds Row is a new-classic British folk ensemble formed in Oxford and named […]
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Jefferson Hyll Inside Our Houses Hailing from Owensboro Kentucky, Jefferson Hyll has a new album Inside Our Houses that showcases his songwriting and sunny heartland rock style. In this album, there are regrets and hope for things to work out, wrapped in bursts of optimism all in assessing losses and dreams. The songs ranges from […]
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Carly King Loving You is Easy Nashville singer songwriter Carly King’s new album Loving You is Easy is a welcome addition to the Americana library this year. An elegant, lovely debut, this album explores human relationships and the experiences that craft a person into who they are, with hushed guitar and mandolin supporting Carly’s gentle and […]
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Annie and Rod Capps Never Done Annie and Rod Capps have a new folk album Never Done that lays a new step on the long traditional folk music path. “Folk” can mean a lot of different things nowadays, including essentially pop music, and as long as it’s not full electronica and autotune it seems like […]
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Melody Guy Train to Dreamland Melody Guy has a newly released album this year of 15 piercing songs with a whole cast of talent in her backing band in Train to Dreamland. This record is a resolute pursuit of honesty and self-scrutiny in undertaking to clear the path to the ultimate “dreamland.” Along the way […]
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