Ben de la Cour New Roses Americanoir singer-songwriter Ben de la Cour recently released his latest long player, New Roses, exploring stories that reveal the pathos of the human condition. De la Cour describes the songs on New Roses as “night songs.” According to de la Cour, “I didn’t even set out to make an […]
Lora Kelley Where I Am Now Americana artist and trauma-informed story work coach Lora Kelley recently released her newest album, Where I Am Now, which delves into themes of loss, recovery, and rebuilding life. Produced by Jeremy Casella, Where I Am Now features the talents of Matt Stanfield (piano), Josh Hunt (drums), Jacob Lowery (bass), […]
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The Burning North releases their debut self-titled long player. Lyricist Thomas Siering and producer Marco Giovino make up The Burning North. The album features Wendy Drown on vocals. Recorded at Dagotown Recorders, the album was engineered and mixed by Sam Margolis and mastered by Tom Waltz. Giovino and Siering handled production and arrangements. Contributors on […]
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Instrumental surf-rock outfit Los Straitjackets releases their latest album, Somos Los Straitjackets, their first new, all-original long player in 13 years. Guitarist Eddie Angel shares, “The recording process we used this time was different. We got together numerous times at the studio to work up the songs, then we recorded demos to listen back to. […]
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Emma Swift – The Resurrection Game Emma Swift’s The Resurrection Game follows in the tradition of her heroes, singer-songwriters like Sandy Denny and Marianne Faithfull, artists who transformed personal struggle into compelling music. As Swift’s first album of original material, it represents an important and promising step in her artistic development. Swift herself describes this […]
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Anna Tivel unveils her seventh long player, entitled Animal Poem, which explores and reveals the pervasive degradations that the socio-cultural constructions of the world at large impose on the planet’s inhabitants. In a way, Animal Poem reflects a search for the meaning of life. Tivel shares, “I think about being here. How brief it is. […]
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Levi Foster – We Made Fire After releasing two EPs – a four-track self-titled set, followed by South of Boulder – Nashville’s Levi Foster releases his debut long player, We Made Fire, a wonderful, lip-smacking collection of songs drenched in manifest emotions. Talking about We Made Fire, Foster shares, “I wanted the album to feel […]
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Rodney Crowell Airline Highway Before there was Alternative Country, before Outlaw Country, before Americana, there was Rodney Crowell. The veteran songwriter released his debut album, the now-ironically titled Ain’t Living Long Like This, in 1978 — a decade before Steve Earle’s Copperhead Road, two decades before Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, and a good thirteen […]
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Texas singer/songwriter Marcy Grace will release her debut long player, Tear It Up, on August 22. And it’s a humdinger, blending galvanizing guitars, propelling percussion, and snarling, twang-laced vocals into audacious country rock. Talking about the album, Grace says, “This album is all me and my band. We did bring in Aaron Castilla on fiddle […]
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Singer-songwriter Brielle Brown recently released her debut long player, In Art & Soil The Same, about the stories that define our lives, enabling us to make sense of life, shape our identities, and find our place in the world. Brown explains, “It’s about the delicate closeness of grief and suffering, of the memories stored and […]
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