Sound Cloud Sunday – August 23, 2020

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Sound Cloud Sunday – August 23, 2020

As we barrel our way through an endless summer (spring? fall? who knows?) of fires, politics, pandemics, racial strife, heat, it’s a good thing here at Laurel Canyon Radio that we can just put on some music and just enjoy the ride. Through times of struggle, we have often turned to recording artists old and new to explain our times, take our collective temperature and then mirror it back to us. At the moment, I can’t bear to look in the mirror, which is why we’re on radio. Enjoy some great tunes, have some enjoyable “scratch behind the ear” dog days and we’ll see you back on Labor Day Weekend!

Orville Peck – No Glory In The West

Hometown: Canada

Album: From the EP “Show Pony”

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Website: https://www.orvillepeck.com/

Golden Shoals – Old Buffalo

Hometown: Boston, MA

Album: From the self-released album “Golden Shoals” out August 7.

Review Snippet: “Golden Shoals bridge the sometimes distant worlds of traditional bluegrass and old time music together. With one foot steeped in tradition and the other focused on fresh songwriting, Golden Shoals are helping to further the narrative of American Roots music and introducing the traditions of our past to a whole new generation of listeners.” – Kris Truelsen, WBCM Radio Bristol

Website: https://goldenshoals.com/

Justin Wells – The Screaming Song

Hometown: Blanchard, LA

Album: From the album “United State” out August 28

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Website: https://justinwellsmusic.com/

Twisted Pine – Well, You Could Do It Without Me

Hometown: Boston, MA

Album: From the album “Right Now” out on Signature Sounds Records.

Review Snippet: Coming Summer of 2020, Right Now is a cosmic map of the new and glistening journeys of Twisted Pine, the Boston-based spacecraft of a band that was once bluegrass but is now “something else, a wider version of a stringband, boundary jumpers akin to outfits like Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and Crooked Still [The Boston Globe].” The soundscape for this full-length sophomore release has all the sass of zero-gravity pop; the grooves of 2 a.m. funk jams; the astral flute and shoobedoos of 70s radi

Website: https://www.twistedpineband.com/

Joshua Lee Turner – 319

Hometown: Brooklyn via Indianapolis, IN

Album: From the album “Public Life” out now on Bring Luck Records.

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Website: https://www.joshualeeturner.com/

Michael McArthur – Old Sedona

Hometown: Lakeland, FL

Album: From the EP” How to Fall In Love”

Review Snippet: “With his emotionally confessional ballads, cinematic sounds, and hushed intimacy, McArthur achieves and conveys a sort of state of grace.” –

Website: https://www.michaelmcarthurmusic.com/

Brennen Leigh – Don’t You Know I’m From Here

Hometown: Nashville via North Dakota

Album: From the album “Prairie Love Letter” out September 18.

Review Snippet: s renowned for her musicianship as for her writing, it’s easy to see how Leigh caught the ear of greats like Guy Clark, who colorfully endorsed her flatpicking: “Brennen Leigh plays guitar like a motherfucker,” and David Olney, who described her writing as “tender, violent, sentimental, foolish and wise, she is always Brennen. Confident and at ease with herself, without being a jerk about it.”

Website: https://www.brennenleigh.net/

Tom Brosseau – Vera Lee

Hometown: Grand Forks, ND

Album: From the self-released album “The Prairie”.

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Website: https://tombrosseau.com/

Charley Crockett – Fool Somebody Else

Hometown: San Benito, TX

Album: From the album “Welcome To Hard Times” out on SonofDavyRecords.

Review Snippet:

That album is Welcome to Hard Times, an aptly-named collection that perfectly fits these troubled days even though it was made just before the pandemic hit. The music was shaped by his heart issues and producer Mark Neill’s desire to make “a dark gothic country record.” Charley certainly knew how to deliver that. “I think you can hear that deep, dark sadness in this record,” he says, “but I think it’s the kind of darkness that will uplift others.”

Website: http://www.charleycrockett.com/

Arlo McKinley – Bag of Pills

Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Album: From the album “Die Midwestern” on Oh Boy Records

Review Snippet: McKinley’s Oh Boy Records solo debut, Die Midwestern, is deeply rooted in street soul, country, punk, and gospel and draws on personal stories, set against the backdrop of his hometown of Cincinnati Ohio. It was crafted downriver, in Memphis’ legendary Sam Phillips Recording Service, produced by GRAMMY award-winning Matt Ross-Spang, with an all-star Memphis band of Ken Coomer, David Smith, Will Sexton, Rick Steff, Jessie Munson and Reba Russell. There, McKinley recorded ten remarkable songs – some dating back fifteen years – all penned with a weight, honesty and gritty-hope that comes from living in the rustbelt city where his songs were born. Matt Ross-Spang, stated, “I am in awe of Arlo’s songs and his dedication and embodiment of each one when he performs them . His willingness to bare it all on this record was more electric than the equipment used to capture it.”

Website: https://www.arlomckinley.com/

Brooke Bentham – 29# Stratford Apts.

Hometown: Newcastle, England

Album: From the forthcoming album “Nowhere Near” on AllPoints Records.

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Website: https://www.brookebentham.co.uk/

The Citradells – Thankless

Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

Album: From the album “Tracs” out on You Are The Record Company

Review Snippet: Tracs is the 10th album the band has produced in 7 years. Recorded over the space of a year in their home studio in rural Victoria, this album we have stripped back a lot of the instrumentation of our previous releases, taking songwriting and arrangement inspiration from the likes of Neil Young, The Band, The Byrds, Big Star and Cut Worms. We hope you find enjoyment listening to it.

Website: https://thecitradels.bandcamp.com/

Lily McKown – Circle of Misery

Hometown: Philadelphia

Album: From the album “Back Seat Driver” self-released on August 14.

Review Snippet: Backseat Driver, the new album from Lily McKown, begins with a punch, a short fadein before the album’s title-track, and opening number, bursts into life. Such eagerness slowly turns into something more downbeat however, the brightness of the instrumentation at odds with McKown’s voice which carries an angst in its heart almost throughout the ten tracks.

Website: https://www.lilymckown.com/