Sound Cloud Sunday, June 28, 2020

 Sound Cloud Sunday June 21, 2020

Happy Father’s Day AND BEYOND           from us here at Laurel Canyon Radio!  Hope you are enjoying your summer quarantine radio here at the station, and we thought we would drop another ep of Sound Cloud Sunday on ya, cuz its Sunday.  Great new music, a few mysteries, enjoy!

 

 

 

Dan Sartain – Blue Prairie (with the Lost Trailers)

 

Hometown:  Center Point, Alabama

Album:  . From the ep “Western Stars” released April 24 on Earth Recordings.

 

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Website:  https://dansartain.com/

 

Rumer – Deep Summer In the South

 

Hometown:      London via Pakistan

Album:  .   From the album “Nashville Tears: The Songs of Hugh Prestwood” out August 14 on Cooking Vinyl.

 

Review Snippet:  Rumer is such a song-catcher. Songs written by the British singer, like “Slow” and “Aretha,” made her a worldwide million-seller but she also has an unerring instinct for the work of others. On Nashville Tears, Rumer immerses herself in the catalog of Hugh Prestwood, a songwriter whose name is spoken with reverence by his colleagues. An album to savor, Nashville Tears collects fifteen of Prestwood’s finest songs, many never recorded until now, revealing truths of the heart, both intimate and universal, realistic and romantic.

 

Website:  https://www.rumer.co.uk/

 

Radnor & Lee – Simple Harmony

 

Hometown:      USA/Sydney

Album:   From the album “Golden State”, released June 19 on Flower Moon Records.

 

Review Snippet:  The is Josh Radner of How I Met Your Mother teaming up with indie wunderkind Ben Lee.  The genesis of the current chapter of their career marked by the release Golden State – which displays a clear graduation out of its “side project by two guys who like to do a lot of things” chapter – was equally strange and remarkable. SPIN says, “The album’s title refers more to a state of mind rather than California itself. The vibe, though, is a lot darker than what the shiny title may indicate. That includes the wisdom of experience and being beaten up by life, and ultimately realizing that imperfection isn’t necessarily a bad thing.”

 

Website: https://www.flowermoonrecords.com/radnorandlee

 

Sun Cutter – Daylight Star

 

Hometown:      Colchester, Essex

Album:  .  The single was released June 19 on Bronzerat.

 

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Website:  http://www.kevinpearcemusic.com/

 

Greg Copeland – Coldwater Canyon 

 

Hometown:     Los Angeles

Album:   From the album “ TheTango Bar” available on Bandcamp..

 

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Singer-songwriter Greg Copeland is a Southern California native whose depth of feeling for music – and natural ability to conjure it up with spare, graceful melodies and lyrics that are plainspoken poetry – has been in inverse proportion to his body of work. That balance tips with his new album, 2008’s DIANA AND JAMES, an earthy, folk-flavored collection of 12 original songs produced by acclaimed musician Greg Leisz, a pedal steel master and ace guitarist who plays on every track. The disc follows up his 1982 Jackson Browne-produced debut album Revenge Will Come (Geffen), which allmusic.com calls “a first-rate singer-songwriter affair” and was included in Time Magazine’s 1982 year-end 10 Best list (along with Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Richard & Linda Thompson’s Shoot Out the Lights).

Copeland and Browne have been friends since they attended high school together in Fullerton, CA, and then entered the L.A. music scene in the late ’60s. For a time, they lived in a compound of duplexes and triplexes in Echo Park, near Dodger Stadium, where J.D. Souther and Glenn Frey were also neighbors. In addition to collaborating on Revenge Will Come, Copeland co-wrote the song “Candy,” which appears on Browne’s album Lives In The Balance. His credits also include the song “El Salvador,” which Joan Baez recorded in 1989, and David Lindley  covered “Revenge Will Come” on his 2008 album Big Twang.

During Copeland’s long hiatus from music-making, he and his wife raised two sons. He started songwriting again in 2000 – “I could feel it coming. The odometer clicked over and it was like I came out of a deep freeze. Songs just started pouring out. It took me a couple of years to really trust it. After a while, I

 

Website:  https://gregcopeland1.bandcamp.com/releases

 

 

Lazer Lloyd – Riverside

 

Hometown:    New York City

Album:  From the album “Tomorrow Never Comes” out June 12 on Lots of Love Records.

 

Review Snippet: “As a young songwriter and guitar player, I loved Neil Young with his super sensitive acoustic and singing just suddenly firing it up with searing guitar. I first heard Stevie Ray Vaughn live at 14 and my father also took me to hear Santana – those were life-changing experiences – seeing masters who performed on a level of prayer through music on stage. That set my mind and heart on playing music for life.”

 

Website:  https://www.lazerlloyd.live/

 

Shred Kelly

 

Hometown:      Canadian Rockies

Album:  .  From the album “Like A Rising Sun” released June 19

 

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The band’s striking and energy-packed sound has evolved from their eclectic musical influences and their unique experiences and individual backgrounds. Their progressive pairing of acoustic instrumentation with electric counterparts, harmonies, and driving rhythm, continues to develop and reach new heights.

Their latest album ‘Like A Rising Sun’ (June 19, 2020), produced by Nygel Asselin and mixed by Ben Kaplan,  is the group’s fifth offering and their most raw autobiography. This album is an honest reflection of band members personal experiences of starting a family, losing a loved one, and coming out on the other side forever changed. With such upheaval comes an outpouring of explosive, fast-paced, and anthemic folk rock.

Over the years, Shred Kelly has had the opportunity to perform across Canada and internationally at festivals such as Reeperbahn Festival, Australian Music Week, Folk Alliance, SXSW, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Ottawa Bluesfest, Mariposa Folk Festival, SKOOKUM Festival, Wapiti, and Kaslo Jazz Etc Festival.

 

Website: http://www.shredkelly.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

India Ramey – King of the Ashes

 

Hometown:  Rome, GA

Album:  From the album “Shallow Graves” Out September 4 on Real Phonic Records.

 

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Website:  https://indiaramey.com/

 

The Lone Canary – Ride

 

Hometown:     Rockford, IL

Album:  .   From the album “Leave The Gray” self-released in January.

 

Review Snippet:  This duo’s perfectly matched voices showcase their haunting vocals, singing songs of love and loss, resulting in a well-honed acoustic masterpiece that will woo your music-loving soul.

 

 

Website:  https://www.thelonecanary.com/

 

Western Terrestrials – Space Cowboy’s Got The Blues

 

Hometown:      Vermont

Album:  From the album “Back In The Saddle of A Fever Dream” self-released June 12.

 

Review Snippet: The band’s sophomore record, Back in the Saddle of a Fever Dream, was recorded at Omnisound Studios on Music Row in Nashville, with producer Dean Miller, son of country music legend Roger Miller. The single from this record, Kings Highway, was released 5/11/20.

 

Website:  https://www.westernterrestrials.com/

 

 

Jeff Crosby – Laramie

 

Hometown:      Nashville via Idaho

Album:  From the album “North Star” self-released on April 24.

 

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Website:  https://www.jeffcrosbymusic.com/

 

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Molly Maher – Jango

 

Hometown:      Rome, GA

Album:  From the album “Follow” released ????

 

Review Snippet: Molly Maher resides on the border between the lands of Americana and the Blues and moves beautifully between them, blending simmer and cool with kick-ass guitar playing.

 

Website:  https://mollymaher.com/

 

Fretland – Have Another Beer

 

Hometown:      Snohomish, WA

Album:  Eponymous debut album released April 24 on Tone Tree

 

Review Snippet:  While still getting footing on their newest plateau, FRETLAND has lots to enjoy in the view behind them. The band corralled two sonic stalwarts for their first full length record, including engineer Nich Wilbur (Angel Olsen, Black Belt Eagle Scout) and Seattle-area sage Trevor Spencer (Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes), who mixed the record. The band, rife with energy and momentum, has already created one of those strong foundations that allows for a long story to unfold in great detail and with much revelation.

 

Website:  https://www.facebook.com/Fretlandtheband/

 

Monday Night Social – Nothing Broken

 

Hometown:      Chattanooga, TN

Album:  New single – no album yet.

 

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Website:  http://mondaynightsocial.com/

 

Electric Peace – Surf’s Up 60’s!

 

Hometown:

Album:  . Single released on Flanagan.

 

Review Snippet:  It’s the name of a Cult album.  What could be wrong?

 

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