Sound Cloud Sunday – January 26, 2019
Sound Cloud Sunday January 26, 2019
Laurel Canyon Radio presents another set of amazingly delicious offerings from the independent side of the music industry. Besides an assured harmony strewn set from a new band Life Like Water to the solo ministrations of Old Crow Medicine Show stalwart Gill Landry, we’ve got another week of awesome music from the heart of our delicious acoustic based credo. Enjoy station faves Elijah Ocean, State Cows and Westwego! Click on last week’s show below!
Life Like Water – I Am Listening
Hometown: Asheville, NC
Album: Title track from the self-released debut album, out January 3.
Review Snippet: Together David Matters, with his bandmates Megan Drollinger and Charles Furtado, Life Like Water’s music has developed a sound that straddles the edges of contemporary folk and traditional music from around the world.
With a focus on trance-inducing, finger-style guitar, elegant vocal harmonies, and melodies that contain flavors of Africa and the Middle East, the music of this eclectic trio possesses a dark edge with a wonderfully uplifting finish.
Website: https://www.llwmusic.com/
Eastern Rain – Lost In Your World
Hometown: Hamburg, Germany
Album: From the album “Smoke Will Rise” released in December on Bandcamp.
Review Snippet: a Hamburg, Germany based band and songwriting project
writing about birds, foreign cars, the great outdoors, climate crisis activism, space travel, revolution, income and wealth inequity, rivers, and overcoming fear.
Website: https://m.facebook.com/easternrain
Chad Harvey – Nashville Intermezzo
Hometown: Lynnville, IN
Album: “Run From The Sound” is due March 6 on Indie 500 Records.
Review Snippet: Chad Harvey is a true American original born in Evansville, and raised in nearby Lynnville—that’s Southern Indiana to the uninformed—just down the highway from Indiana’s most famous musical export, John Mellencamp. . . an artist to whom Harvey has been compared. However, Harvey is far from a knock-off, Harvey delivers his self-penned emotive stories with an inimitable whiskey-stained voice.
Website: www.chadharveymusic.com
The Adobe Collective – Warm To Life
Hometown: Joshua Tree, California
Album: From the album “All The Space That There Is” released January 10 on Love Sands Records.
Review Snippet: “a cosmic journey layered in anthemic, desert rock grooves, fused in folk, country, and psych.” —
Next Time In LA: A residence at the Alibi in Palm Springs in February followed by some house parties around Los Angeles.
Website: https://www.theadobecollective.com/
Bean Pickers Union – 16 Pounds Of Mary
Hometown: Cambridge, MA
Album: From the self-released album “Archaeology” released last October.
Review Snippet: ‘Archaeology’ by The Bean Pickers Union, a small collective of musicians based in Cambridge Massachusetts, can best be described as authentic Americana. It has got everything you would expect – banjo, pedal steels, and even a cello, whatever you are hoping to hear will be found on this album. The ten-track album takes you on a journey that visits old school folk and Americana that then leaves you up to date with a cool folk-rock feel at the end.
Website: thebeanpickersunion.bandcamp.com
Jessi McNeal – Radio Station
Hometown: Washington State
Album: From the album “Driveway” released last August on Log House Sounds.
Review Snippet: Jessi McNeal set out to meet people right where they were at — and that is exactly where she has arrived. Through this collection of songs, she takes us to the rawest places of pain and hunger, all the while maintaining her relentless sense of hope for a brighter tomorrow. Top-notch production from Ryan McAllister and Jessi’s superb vocals and unmistakable Americana spirit help solidify this as one of the best and most hopeful records of the year.”
Next Time In LA: May 1 in Goleta.
Website: https://www.jessimcneal.com/
Gill Landry: I Love You Too
Hometown: Louisiana
Album: “Skeleton At The Banquet”, Landry’s fifth solo album, was released yesterday on Rubber Tramp Records.
Review Snippet: The former busker turned Grammy-winning musician (with his former band Old Crow Medicine Show) describes his latest solo record as “a series of reflections and thoughts on the collective hallucination that is America”.
But if Skeleton At The Banquet is a coruscating deconstruction of the modern American psyche, it’s a well-hidden one.
It follows his heartbroken 2017 break-up album Love Rides A Dark Horse, which was written amid the brusque gales and rains of Washington’s north Pacific coast, a well-rounded, melancholic meditation on modern lives, shot through with flashes of rescue and redemption.
Last summer, Landry decamped to a small village in western France to write, before recording in Los Angeles.
Website: http://www.gilllandrymusic.com/
Elijah Ocean – River Of Red
Hometown: Los Angeles via Maine and New York
Album: From his 5th album “Back To The Lander” released December 6 on New Wheel.
Review Snippet: The hard work shines through in his craft without a scrap of it being over-thought. It’s American music. It’s conceived on highways between cities past their prime. It’s born from memories and dreams of fresh starts. There’s rich history to draw from in Nashville, Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Bakersfield and Austin, but he doesn’t desire a repeat. He celebrates the richness of a multi-generational record collection while adding a fresh voice to the conversation, and the music is new.
Next Time In LA: January 31 at the Echoplex.
Website: http://www.elijahocean.com/
Westwego – Always Around/Marshall Law
Hometown: Toulouse, France
Album: From the album “Bittersweet Moods” released in October on Lalalande Drive.
Review Snippet: Be the first!
Website: https://westwego.bandcamp.com/releases
Paul Dyer – Waiting On The Magic
Hometown: Oklahoma City, OK
Album: From the album “Travel In” released January 10 on Blue Dawn Creations
Review Snippet: An Oklahoma-born artist, Paul Dyer writes songs that tell stories. Songs that make you tap your foot while you laugh, sometimes cry, and remember your loves gained, and those you lost. Whether you call it Folk, Americana, Red Dirt, or something else, you’ll hear melodies and lyrics that touch you, and encourage you to embrace and examine life from a variety of vantage points
Website: https://www.pauldyer.com/
Pressing Strings – On The Wire
Hometown: Annapolis, MD
Album: New just released single.
Review Snippet: Folky, soulful, bluesy, funky, catchy, smooth, organic. These are all proper adjectives that describe the Maryland based group Pressing Strings. Whether they are playing in a backyard, local brewery, or rocking a festival stage, the melodic quality of the music stands out among the crowd. Robust rhythms guide heartfelt songwriting that is familiar yet fresh and innovative. The three piece has been steadily creating and performing for the better half of a decade now. Members Jordan Sokel, Nick Welker, and Brandon Bartlett all grew up with a close bond to their instruments and eventually formed out of the bustling and notoriously musically rich state capital of Annapolis, Maryland.
Website: https://pressingstrings.com/
Roberts And West – Lonely And Afraid
Hometown: Nashville
Album: This is a new single. No album yet.
Review Snippet: Roberts and West are a collection of musicians turned technology professionals turned musicians from Nashville Tennessee.
Originally formed to support the technology community; their sound and energy has lead to some exciting shows co-headling with the likes of Duran Duran, Weezer, and John Mayer.
Website: https://www.robertsandwest.com/
Fruition – Counting The Days
Hometown: Portland, OR
Album: Their new EP “Broken At The Break Of Day” was self-released January 17
Review Snippet: Their unmistakable vocal blend first revealed itself in 2008 when Anderson tagged along with Asebroek and Naja for an afternoon of busking in Portland. Since that time, they have opened shows for the Wood Brothers, Greensky Bluegrass, and Jack Johnson, and appeared at festivals like Telluride Bluegrass, Bonnaroo, and DelFest. Wild As The Night follows the band’s acclaimed Tucker Martine-produced 2018 album, Watching It All Fall Apart.
Website: https://www.fruitionband.com/home
State Cows – Human Ladders/Deportee
Hometown: Umea Sweden
Album: Their 3rd album “Challenges” was released in December.
Review Snippet: Smooth guitar lines, half-time shuffles, funky bass lines, slick harmonies, real Fender Rhodes, tight horn sections and some California sunshine … it’s all in there!
Website: https://statecows.com/
