I fell in love with Rickie Lee Jones a long time ago. I remember the exact moment. And no, it wasn’t when I heard “Chuck E.’s in Love” or the rest of her first album. It should have been. I just relistened to it, and it is the best début album by a female solo […]
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Welcoming these great artists with some killer songs to the playlist: “California” by Tiffany Williams (from the album I’ll Be Back Soon) “Compass” by Sierra Hull (from the album Weighted Mind) “We Had It All” by Domenic Cicala (from the album Come on Over: The Honky Tonk Duets) “All of My Love” by Senora May (from the […]
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Welcoming these great artists with some killer songs to the playlist: “Sam Story (Cigarette Butts)” by Ewan Macintyre (from the album Dream on Sally) “Testify” by Annie Mack (from the 5-song EP of the same name) “Things to Come” by Jeremy Parsons (from the album of the same name) “Pieces” by Azure Wolf (single with […]
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Americana Highways recently caught up with Lorenzo Gillis Cook of Petite League. The band’s fifth studio album Joyrider, released in January, is a delight on multiple levels. Imagine if Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds with just a guitar and Dennis. That’s pretty close to Joyrider. No kidding. Straight out of Syracuse, NY, and now making […]
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Monica Sorenson has an amazing voice that sounds like no one else, but evokes great female singers ranging from the queens of early blues to mid-century rockers like Ann Wilson and Chrissie Hynde, popular singers like Cher and Dolly, and even jazzier voices like Ricky Lee Jones. Combine that voice with lyrics that embrace a […]
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On January 15, Buck Meek released his second full length solo album, Two Saviors. My 20-something daughter, knowing my tastes better than I do, recommended I check it out. Now, my daughter has impeccable taste in music. Unfortunately, I don’t. So, I have only myself to blame when my initial reaction to Two Saviors was […]
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Introducing our newest Spotify playlist: Heartbreak City! Curated by Steve Semeraro. Listen and follow for regular updates of new music.
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On January 8, Petite League released its fifth full-length album Joyrider. Petite League is a Hall-and-Oates-H2O kind of partnership between Lorenzo Gillis Cook who writes and sings all of the songs and plays all the guitars. On prior releases, but not the Joyrider album, he also did the art. Henry Schoonmaker plays the drums. Zeke […]
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A Growing Season is a breathtaking debut album by Seamus McMahon. Released in June 2020, it’s a true solo effort in which McMahon wrote, sang, and played all the instruments on every song. The project name, “Marjorie,” is the name of McMahon’s grandmother who owned the house in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, where he wrote and recorded […]
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On November 13, 2020, Mitch Dembin released his second full length album Nothing Up My Sleeve. From the opening piano figure (is it a Fender Rhodes?), you just know that this album is going give late Boomers/early Gen-Xers something to smile about. Perhaps more than any time since the advent of rock & roll, musicians […]
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