Sound Cloud Sunday – June 25, 2023

Sound Cloud Sunday June 25, 2023

Hurtling toward the solstice, we bring you a fresh batch of inspiration…click on the link below…that’s the show…listen…subscribe.  enjoy.

 

 

 

 

Logan Halstead – Dark Black Coal/Good Old Boys With Bad Names

 

Hometown: Boone County WV

 

Album: “Dark Black Coal” out May 5 on Our Vinyl TV

 

Review Snippet: “Logan has that mystic quality that every songwriter seeks to harness each time they put pen to paper, and he’s just getting started. ‘Dark Black Coal’ is a striking lamentation on growing up in coal country, and he takes you there.”

Website:  https://www.lhalsteadmusic.com/

 

 

 

Joshua Ray Walker – Cuz I Love You

 

Hometown: Dallas, TX

 

Album: New single, Lizzo cover.  From the forthcoming album “What Is It Even?

 

Review Snippet: The catalyst of Joshua Ray Walker’s new album, What Is It Even?, was sparked on the patio of the Tulsa, Oklahoma music venue and dive bar Mercury Lounge, a fitting origin story for any country record. But this is far from an ordinary country record. It was on that Tulsa patio, deep into tour, when Walker and drummer Trey Pendergrass were half joking about what their gospel jump blues version of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” would sound like, wondering “what if the Blues Brothers covered a Whitney Houston song?”

Website:  https://www.joshuaraywalker.com/

 

 

 

Say She She – Reeling

 

Hometown: Brooklyn

 

Album: New single on Karma Chief

 

Review Snippet: Discodelic soul

Website:  https://www.saysheshe.com/

 

 

 

Lowland Hum – Sandrine

 

Hometown: Charlottesville, VA

 

Album: New single, new album in fall.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.lowlandhum.com/

 

 

 

 

Jenny Lewis – Puppy In A Truck

 

Hometown: Las Vegas

 

Album: From the album Joyall out June 9 on Blue note.  Touring with Beck will be in Glewood at the Forum on August 7.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.jennylewis.com/

 

 

 

Brent Cobb – Southern Star

 

Hometown: Ellaville, GA

 

Album: Title track of album on Ol Buddy Thirty Tigers.  Out September 22.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.brentcobbmusic.com/

 

 

 

Gringo Star – Stand And Turn Away

 

Hometown: Atlanta, GA

 

Album: From the album “On And On And Gone” 8^th album.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClNNdgo2V5iTHy_TXB6Xi8g

 

 

Diane Gentle and the Gentle Men – Walk With Me

 

Hometown: New York City

 

Album: New single

 

Review Snippet: …”this album breathlessly offers songs that drip poignancy and emotional urgency and that virtually reach through your speakers, grab your ears, and demand attention.”

Website:  https://www.dianegentile.com/

 

 

 

 

David Gelman – High Road

 

Hometown: New York City

 

Album:

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://gelmanmusic.com/

 

 

 

Patterson Barrett – Longing For Sun

 

Hometown: Austin, TX

 

Album: Out June 16, “I Just Can’t Call It Quits” first album in 5 years (band of horses)

 

Review Snippet: Barrett garners any number of indelible influences — the latter day Byrds, the Burrito Brothers, Doug Sahm, and Poco among them — but it’s his reassuring embrace that binds it all so emphatically. He comes across like a companion and confidant who makes you feel instantly at ease, without the need to put up any artificial posture or pretense. Even when he expresses a sense of yearning and desperation on a song such as “Longing For Sun,” he never abandons that sincere sense of dreamy desire. The down home designs of “I’m Pretending,” a tune credited to Buddy and Julie Miller and featuring harmonies from Buddy Miller as well, attest to his sweeter sentiments.

Website: https://pattersonbarrett.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Juki Valipakka and Joordan Mckay  – The Man In Blue

 

Hometown: Helsinki, Finland

 

Album: “Suicide Chickens And Other Love Songs” out now.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://soundcloud.com/jukisan

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This Is the Kit – Careful Of Your Keepers

 

Hometown: Winchester, UK via Paris

 

Album: Title track on Rough Trade June 9

 

Review Snippet: Careful Of Your Keepers is daring and soft, cutting and warm–a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. There’s a shared language of the band’s family experience that is as audible as ever in these recordings, which boast beautiful instrumental performances that still leave the nuanced space required for Stables’ vocals to live at the forefront. “The album was nearly called Goodbye Bite. And in a way it still is,” says Stables. “I went for Careful of Your Keepers in the end. It’s one of my favourite songs on the album, a song that for me holds the general feeling of the album as a whole. The fragility of things. Of situations. Of relationships. Of humans. What we do to look after each other and ourselves. The passing of time and what that does to us, and how we live our lives going forward.”

Website:  https://shop.roughtraderecords.com/release/382189-this-is-the-kit-careful-of-your-keepers?lang=en_US

 

 

 

 

Ellis Paul – Cosmos

 

Hometown: Fort Kent, ME

 

Album:  55 on Rosella Records out June 11. (his 19^th studio album).

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.ellispaul.com/

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Jess Williamson – Hunter

 

Hometown: Los Angeles Austin Nexus

 

Album: Time Ain’t Accidental out June 9 on Mexican Summer Records.

 

Review Snippet:  Long drives and highway expanse; dancing, smoke, sex, and physical desire – the core images of Jess Williamson’s new album Time Ain’t Accidental revel in the earthly and the carnal. After a protracted breakup with a romantic partner and longtime musical collaborator who left Williamson and their home in Los Angeles at the start of the pandemic, the album’s reckoning with loss, isolation, romance, and personal reclamation signals a tectonic shift for Williamson as a person and as an artist: from someone who once accommodated and made herself small to a woman emboldened by her power as an individual.

Website:  http://www.jesswilliamson.com/

 

 

 

Bob Henson – Lady In The Moon

 

Hometown: Lenoir, NC

 

Album:

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-henson-68a8061a/

 

 

Blake Mills – Skeleton Waiting

Hometown: Santa Monica, CA

 

Album: The album is Jelly Road and it’s out July 14 on New Deal Verve.  Band of horses.

 

Review Snippet:

Website: https://www.blakemillsonline.com/

 

 

 

John Train – Sun Up At Belmont

Hometown: Philadelphia

 

Album: “Cowboy Dreams” out in 2022  on Chapter 7 records.

 

Review Snippet:

Website: https://www.trainarmy.com/