Sound Cloud Sunday – August 5, 2018
Sound Cloud Sunday August 5, 2018
Our last episode of the summer (we’re traveling throughout the United States soaking up music festivals all over – say hi to us at Hoxeyville in Michigan August 18 finds our musical tastes all over the map as we pull together elements of country, rock, pop, blues, retro, folk and Americana, stir it up into a fine boulaisbasse and sprinkle it with a dash of jalapeno all for you. Sorry the podcasts won’t be up for a spell (the shows were recorded in studio and uploaded to our server but the mp3s are not accessible until after Labor Day. Enjoy this show and some past shows we’ve run this summer and we’ll freshen things up after Labor Day!
77:78 – Love Said (Let’s Go) 
Hometown: Isle Of Wight, UK
Album: From their debut album “Jellies” released July 6 on Heavenly Recordings. (the duet of Aaron Fletcher and Tim Parkin of the Bees)
Review Snippet: Fletcher and Parkin have released an album that doesn’t fit into the confines of what an ‘alternative’ album should be in 2018. Instead they’ve crafted 11 songs that show off their love of retro sounds, an infectious joy for life, a good melody and a catchy chorus.
Website: heavenlyrecordings.com/artist/7778
Fantastic Negrito – Transgender Biscuits
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Album: From his second album “Please Don’t Be Dead” on Cooking Vinyl.
Review Snippet: A rootsy singer-songwriter collection that finds the three songwriters trading vocals on their off-kilter songs, at turns humorous and devastating
Website: https://fantasticnegrito.com/
Goodnight Texas – Tucumcari
Hometown: Somewhere near Texas
Album: From their 3rd album “Conductor” on 2 Cent Bank Check Records. .
Review Snippet: Conductor wanders through the American Southwest in the early decades of the 20th century. It’s a moment when the United States has claimed the land from sea to shining sea, poised to become the world power, a great furnace of both progress and destruction. Electricity is coming into its own. The world’s population is about to explode. Against a backdrop of desert sunsets from a century ago, these songs exist on a precipice — as do their creators, as does the listener, as do we all.
-Emma Silvers
Website: https://hiwearegoodnighttexashowareyou.com/
Shannon Shaw – Broke My Own
Hometown: Oakland
Album: From her debut album “Shannon In Nashville” out on Easy Eye Records.
Next Time In LA: August 19 at Viva Pomona!
Review Snippet: Shannon and the Clams, her name has become synonymous with askew glamor and miscreant soulfulness: She and her misfit bandmates have spent nearly a decade sounding like the nails-tough Shangri-Las reborn and resembling hairsprayed-and-glittered John Waters movie extras, crying their eyes out and ready for a fight. (Waters has called them one of his favorite bands: “They’re like my wet dream!” he once proclaimed.) The Clams mixed punk and girl groups with more conviction and maladjusted, leather-clad character than any other band of the late 2000s. Much of the appeal of their raw early records was in the friction of Shaw’s powerhouse pipes—the agony, the mania, the desperate longing they conveyed—as they tore through a busted-up boombox fog. The Clams’ star has never risen too high, and so it has never fallen.
Website: http://theshannonshaw.com/
White Owl Red – You Could Be My Baby For Awhile
Hometown: San Francisco
Album: From their debut album “Americana Ash” from 2014 and being re-released in August.
Review Snippet: “It is absolutely gorgeous. This music doesn’t just entertain, it transports. Listening causes the user to daydream… spacey and atmospheric… country and psychedelia… a little bit Chris Isaac and a little bit of The Byrds. The writing, singing, backing vocals, and instrumentation is perfection.”
Website: https://whiteowlred.com/
Rhyan Sinclair – Selfishly, Hopelessly
Hometown: Lexington, KY
Album: From her debut album “Barnstormer” released in June on Little Haunted Girl Records.
Review Snippet: One of the primary influences for her new album, Barnstormer, is the 1987 album Trio, recorded by Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt. The acoustic palette of that album is echoed in Barnstormer, which is the first solo album for the teenaged Kentucky musician.
Website: https://www.rhyansinclair.com/
Mark Wayne Glasmire – I’ve Got A Feeling
Hometown: Arlington, TX
Album: From his sophomore album “Can’t Be Denied” on Traceway Records.
Review Snippet:
Website: http://www.markwayneglasmire.com/
Daniel Kemish – They Say I’m Crazy
Hometown: Southampton, UK
Album: From his debut album “Under The Same Sky” released in May on Far Out Records.
Review Snippet: I’m one of those people (I think they’re called music fans) that, if I see a name that I don’t recognise performing locally, I find myself scouring the internet for clues and so it came to pass that I should stumble upon Trouble Girl by Southampton born, Portugal based singer-songwriter Daniel Kemish, an instantly infectious rootsy lament, featuring a suitably weathered lead vocal and a rousing hook, one play had me scrambling to mark his Marrs Bar date in the diary.
Website: http://www.danielkemish.com/
Dawn And Hawkes – Early In The Morning
Hometown: Austin, TX
Album: From their 2nd album “The Far Side” self-released in July.
Next Time In LA: August 17 – McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica.
Review Snippet: Voice coach Adam Levine and the show’s mainstream appeal are likely responsible for a poppier polish on the 11-track album, but the chemistry is pure matrimonial bliss. The title track’s almost too obvious, but the harmonies sell it, and the acoustic-driven “Lightning Strikes” is lovely in both its simplicity and slick, near-constant complementary vox. Opener “Silver Line” takes on a deconstructed spaghetti Western ballad, the duo’s vocal tandem entrancing over adept guitar picking. Both bode well for the duo’s career outside of the honeymoon phase.
Website: http://www.dawnandhawkes.com/
Luke Winslow-King – Better For Knowing You
Hometown: Cadillac, Michigan
Album: From his 5th album “Blue Mesa” on Bloodshot Records.
Review Snippet: Winslow-King’s velvety and bedraggled voice is emboldened on Blue Mesa. The album’s laid-back vibe makes it easy to overlook his vocal contributions. But on a closer listen, Winslow-King’s voice is steady yet weathered while consistently conveying melancholy. Blue Mesa exudes a sense of loss. This album was influenced by Winslow-King’s mourning for collaborator and friend Lissa Driscoll who passed away in 2017. “Farewell Blues” was written after Winslow-King learned of his late father’s cancer diagnosis. Throughout Blue Mesa, the lyrics and vocals portray the intensity of Winslow-King’s bereavement.
Website: http://www.lukewinslowking.com/
Jess Morgan – Whitby
Hometown: Norwich, UK
Album: This is a new single courtesy of the artist.
Review Snippet: I panic when I think I’m becoming ordinary.
Website: http://www.jessmorgan.co.uk/
Mark Selby – Tumbleweeds
Hometown: Nashville via Kansas
Album: From his self-released album “Naked Sessions”. Mark died September 18, 2017.
Review Snippet: “As a singer/songwriter, Mark Selby’s in the same league as Bruce Springsteen, with meaty words, a compelling voice, and tracks that have more groove than a vintage vinyl record.”
Website: http://markselby.com
Chris Hennessee – A Little Too Loretta
Hometown: Nashville
Album: From his album “Ramble” on Big Gassed Records.
Review Snippet: This is made possible by the approach Chris Hennessee takes to this record to include a little Southern rock in it as opposed to sticking strictly to country, letting the band stretch their legs a little bit by allowing the arrangements to breathe and determine their own stopping points, yet not cutting corners on songwriting or message at all. This isn’t a jam band record by any stretch, but with the harmonized guitar lines indicative of The Allman Brothers, a bit of well-placed organ, and a willingness to hang in a groove if it feels right, it gives Ramble a distinctly Southern and easy-feeling vibe.
Website: http://www.chrishennessee.com/
Under The Oak – Wandering Around
Hometown: Pennsylvania
Album: From their debut album “Big Sky” released on Winding Way Records.
Review Snippet: To say that the music coming from the soul of Under the Oak is heartfelt would be an understatement… their songs are truly an inspiration.”
Website: https://www.undertheoakmusic.com/
