Sound Cloud Sunday – April 12, 2020

Sound Cloud Sunday April 12, 2020

 Laurel Canyon Radio presents another great hour of fresh-out-the-box indie music for your listening pleasure.  Sadly we uploaded the April 5 program to our server but never made the show go live, so we will air it on April 12 instead!  Enjoy!  Lots of Canadians in our broadcast today, but they know what they are doing and we are not locking them out that border.  Click on the episode of the show below:

 

Griffin Swank – Madness

 

Hometown:   Houston

Album:  No album, yet, one of several singles.

Review Snippet:  You can be the first!

 

Website:  https://griffinswank.bandcamp.com/

 

 

 

Daniel Romano – Strange Faces

 

Hometown:     Welland, Canada

Album:  From the live album “OK Wow” released March27 on You’ve Changed Records.

 

Review Snippet: This live record is the perfect distillation of everything great about Dan as an artist and performer. It is bar none Dan’s greatest artistic achievement to date. He’s a great producer, but nothing can capture the spirit and brilliance of his art than a good old fashioned live record. I don’t generally like live albums, but it’s hard to even tell after awhile that it is a live record because the band doesn’t stop between songs. They find ways to segue seamlessly between tracks.

This is Dan + his outfit in a frenzy, playing impassioned and wild rock versions of his past material. There are remnants of his country vibe in his singing but it’s mostly a splintering acid-fried Dylan going hard with the Band. Musically, we get a few ripping guitars and a really tight rhythm section, plus some extra vocals from Julianna.

 

 

Website:  http://www.danielromanomusic.com/

 

 

Crystal Shawanda –  When It Comes To Love

Hometown:     Wikwemonkong, Canada

Album:  From the album “Church House Blues”  out April 17 on True North Records.

 

Review Snippet: Crystal Shawanda considered herself a Country-music outsider based on her eclectic sound and style, which fuses Blues with traditional Country sensibilities. In her latest album, Fish Out of Water, the Juno Award-winner applies these an

 

 

Website:  http://crystalshawanda.co/

 

 

Alec Lytle And Them Rounders – Landslide

 

Hometown:     Santa Cruz Mountains (Northern California)

Album:  From the album “Remains of Sunday” out April 17 on CEN Records.

 

Review Snippet: Lytle’s innocent, unblemished voice wraps around these melancholy, sometimes dark songs like gauze around a wound. The result is a debut whose immaculate sonics join with a talented cast and show Lytle to be a singer/songwriter worth watching…”

 

 

Website:  http://www.aleclytle.com/

 

PI Jacobs – Broken Cup 

 

Hometown:    Los Angeles

Album:  From the album “Two Truths And A Lie” released February 21 on Travianna Records.

 

Review Snippet:This is a beautifully-crafted Americana album. With her lyrics, Jacobs creates vivid images on par with masters like Tom Waits. She makes you feel like you’re a part of the story that she tells. Two Truths and a Lie (Travianna Records) will be available everywhere on February 21.

 

 

Website:  https://pijacobs.com/

 

 

Stone Company – Dream

 

Hometown:     Kanab, UT

Album:  Self-titled debut album came out March 20 (self-released)

 

Review Snippet:  None I could find.

 

 

Website:  http://stonecompany.weebly.com/

 

 

Sarah Peacock – Mojave  

 

Hometown:     Atlanta

Album:  From the album “Burn The Witch” out March 27 on Road Dog Records.

 

Review Snippet:

Peacock’s amazing vocal prowess and top-notch storytelling ability shine throughout as the characters in her songs celebrate their individuality while dealing with such weighty things as the fragility of life, our emotional vulnerabilities as human beings, societal and communal hypocrisy, the dynamics behind bullying, self-hatred and doubt, and the pain that comes from the consequences of the decisions that we have made in our lives.

While it is true that one of the overriding themes of the album is that we are all prisoners to the human condition, Burn The Witch ultimately is a hopeful record with lyrics like “You can let the world take you low or you can let it take you high” from the song “Take You High,” words which highlight the fact that we ultimately have the power to choose to rise above the limitations that are placed upon us by society and life.

All told, this record is a bold statement from one of Americana music’s great talents which delivers to its listeners the timely and much-needed message that we are all more alike than we ever want to realize or admit and that in this fact lies the powerful possibility of us being able to change and to make a better world. Burn The Witch, on the Road Dog record label, is now available at www.sarahpeacockmusic.com

 

 

Website:  https://www.sarahpeacockmusic.com/

 

Stone Irr – Fine With Me

 

Hometown:     Los Angeles via Lafayette, IN

Album:  From the album “Performance” released in September 2019 on Darling Records.

 

Review Snippet: t’s not often when one can see their own relationship wilting right before them, even worse when the blame is on them. Whether it’s intentional or not, coming to the realization that a relationship is being seen by two different viewpoints leaves a stinging sensation that only grows with each passing day. Stone Irr harnesses this hurt on his latest single “Fine With Me” and presents it with a warm rock melody that combines the best of Midwestern indie and West Coast pop-rock, and Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering it today!

 

 

Website:  https://stoneirr.bandcamp.com/

 

 

Dinty Child – Down To You

 

Hometown:     Boston

Album:  From the album “Lucky Ones” self-released in January.

 

Review Snippet: Dinty is a longtime member of the Boston roots/folk scene. A fearless multi-instrumentalist, he can most often be seen with the band Session Americana, as well as the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, the unapologetically loud and grimy Catbirds, as sensitive sideman to any number of singer/songwriters, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the twenty piece party band, the Funky White Honkies.

 

 

Website:  https://www.dintychild.com/

 

 

Craig Cardiff – To Be Safe, Loved And Home

 

Hometown:  Arnprior, Ontario, Canada

Album:  Re-released single from 2018.

 

Review Snippet: Craig Cardiff hails from Ontario, Canada. His gift is crafting songs that help us deal with the human condition through music. Cardiff has an earnest mannerism in his vocal style, that makes what he sings that much more believable. Now over 20 years into his career, Cardiff has millions of streams on Spotify, (his single “Dirty Old Town” is approaching 60 million hits) and he is considered a pioneer for alternate venue touring. Cardiff is gearing up to release a limited edition 12″ vinyl and CD copy of This Is Craig Cardiff: Collected Works. This contains some of Cardiff’s most popular songs, fan favorites, as well as two un-released songs. One of those song is “To Be Safe, Loved & Home.”

 

 

Website:  http://www.craigcardiff.ca/

 

 

Sarah Jarosz – Johnny  

 

Hometown:     Austin

Album:  From the album “World On The Ground” out June 5 on Rounder Records.

 

Review Snippet:

Sarah Jarosz, who earlier this year won a Grammy for her work with Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan in the trio I’m With Her, returns with her first solo album in four years, World on the Ground, on June 5th. Produced by John Leventhal (Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello) and recorded in his Manhattan home studio, the Rounder Records LP is Jarosz’s solo follow-up to her Grammy-winning 2016 release Undercurrent.

Ahead of the album’s release, Jarosz offers an advance listen with the timely and tantalizing “Johnny,” which finds the title character fighting an inner battle with the forces of wanderlust and inertia, freedom and stability.

“He takes another sip of that blood-red wine, just waitin’ on the stars that will never align,” she sings. “A little luck, a little love, a little light and he’ll be doin’ just fine.”

World on the Ground takes its title from the album cut “Pay It No Mind,” which finds wisdom being passed down through song by a bird observing the world below: “When the world on the ground is gonna swallow you down, sometimes you’ve got to pay it no mind.”

 

 

Website:  https://www.sarahjarosz.com/

 

 

Anthony DaCosta – Feet on The Dashboard

 

Hometown:     Nashville via Bronx, NY

Album:  Title track from the album released March 27 on Antifragile.

 

Review Snippet:True, unconditional love is a fiber of life. We’re born; we live; and hopefully, we love with bold abandon. Austin-based Americana singer-songwriter Anthony Da Costa drifts away with such a love, threadbare and comforting, on a song called “Feet on the Dashboard.” It’s a breezy little tune that envelopes the senses, and Da Costa’s voice is thick like caramel and invites you along for a road trip through a sweeping stretch of countryside. “You don’t have to like my father / I don’t like my father / Still, we love each other / And get along fine,” he sings, barely a whisper escaping his lungs. The love swells inside of him, and he can’t help but let it guide him this way and that.

 

 

Website:  http://www.anthonydacosta.com/

 

 

Songs From The Road Band – Waiting On A Ride

 

Hometown:     Asheville, NC

Album:  Title track from the album released last July on Lucks Dumpy Toad Records.

 

Review Snippet:

Now, with their fifth studio release, Waiting on a Ride, Songs From The Road Band is forging the path ahead as a bluegrass force of their own, shedding the vestiges of their previous associations and making a name for themselves.  A name that deserves to be alongside those with whom this group has honed their craft through the years.

While individual members’ styles and backgrounds projects have run the gamut of newgrass, jamgrass and jazz, Waiting On A Ride is ultimately a bluegrass album.   Traditional themes permeate the project, and the sound is crisp and authentic.  

 

 

Website: https://www.songsfromtheroadband.com/

 

 

Amy Lavere – Not In Memphis 

 

Hometown:     Memphis via Shreveport

Album:  From the album “Painting Blue” re-released April 3 on Nine Mile Records.

 

Review Snippet: LaVere has been touring the UK this month along with her husband, Will Sexton. Her new album, ‘Painting Blue’, is being released on the Nine Mile Records label and it’s a predictably wonderful journey through dramatic originals and a sprinkling of eclectic covers. However, aware that here in the UK we aren’t exactly inundated with live appearances, she treats the evening as a catalogue revue rather than merely a new album set. And what a deep catalogue that’s beginning to look like, complete with collaborative efforts, rootsy calling cards and even a couple of loosely conceptual long player

 

 

Website:  https://www.amylavere.com/

 

 

The End of America – Not The End 

 

Hometown:     Philadelphia

Album: New single.

 

Review Snippet:

The End of America is a band of friends, singers and travelers who blend three-part harmony with indie rock and folk. The Philadelphia-based outfit drifts through styles that resonate with fans of Jose Gonzales, CSNY and Dawes.

All frontmen of previous bands, Brendon Thomas, James Downes and Trevor Leonard met on tour in 2005. Quick to become best friends, they’d frequently join each other on stage, adding harmonies to each others’ songs. It wasn’t long before they decided to create a trio that highlights their vocal chemistry and captures the raw honesty of their performances.

 

 

Website:  http://www.theendofamericamusic.com/

 

 

Bobby Jo Valentine – In The Middle of A Question

 

Hometown:     San Francisco

Album:  From the album “Temporary Weather”  self-released January 2.

 

Review Snippet: He’s found the optimal balance between pop sophistication, folkie clarity, thoughtful maturity and youthful vigor.

 

 

Website:  https://www.bobbyjovalentine.com/