Sound Cloud Sunday June 4, 2023

 

Doesn’t it feel like summer already?  Boy, howdy, couldn’t come soon enough.  Another great week of indie release, some from far afield, others straight from indie darling row.  Join us.  Click below to hear the show in its entirety and broadcast live June 4, 2023 3pm PST.

 

 

Dom Flemons – Dark Beauty

 

Hometown: Phoenix, AZ

 

Album: Traveling Wildfire released in March on Omnivore Records.

 

Review Snippet:  “With this album I wanted to look forward for a change, do more contemporary material,” he said during a recent phone interview. “Most of these songs are recent, and I wanted to delve into the different areas of Black country music. I wanted to have some romantic material, some soulful numbers, the gospel influence, songs about the history, the entire spectrum. A lot of people have been saying they wanted to hear some real Black country music, so that was my goal along with doing newer material.

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Margaret Glaspy – Act Natural

 

Hometown: Red Bluff, CA

 

Album: “Echo The Diamond” August 10 on

 

Review Snippet:  An album informed by profound loss, Echo The Diamond often finds Glaspy sorting through that pain to piece together indelible fragments of wisdom. On “Get Back”—a reflective and soul-stirring track on which her voice achieves a particularly gutting intensity—her insights take the form of both weary observation (“When you’re dripping in your privilege/You don’t know the difference/Between what you want and what you need”) and tenderly delivered instruction (“When you’re only thinking of yourself/You’re missing out on everybody else/Get back to the place you started from/Get back to childhood”). “That song speaks to many things that have accumulated over the last few years for me, including grief and loss and finding myself again through all of it,” says Glaspy. “Playing that song sets me free.” And on “Memories,” the album takes on a sorrowful mood as Glaspy examines the emotional ruin so easily wrought by our own grieving minds. “‘Memories’ was probably the most challenging song for me to track; the take you hear is the only one I was able to get through completely,” she says. “It was a level of vulnerability I’d never gotten to on record, and it holds a special place in my heart now. Even though it’s about a very specific loss for me, it seems to ricochet in different ways for anyone who hears it now.”

 

Website:  http://margaretglaspy.com/

 

 

 

Kassi Vallazza – Smile

 

Hometown:

 

Album: From the album Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing coming soon on Fluff And Gravy Records.

 

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Website:  https://fluffandgravy.com/store/kassi-valazza-knows-nothing/

 

 

 

The Bankes Brothers – Things I’ll Never Learn

 

Hometown: Victoria, BC

 

Album: Second single ever.

 

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Website:  https://thebankesbrothers.com/

 

 

 

Cut Worms – Ballad Of The Texas Kings

 

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

 

Album: Self-titled album out July 10 on Jagjaguwar Records.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.cut-worms.com/

 

 

 

 

Junip featuring Sharon Van Etten – Line of Fire

 

Hometown: Gotthenburg Sweden

 

Album: From the national Geographic wild life special Wild Life live version of a song from 2010

 

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Susto – My Entire Life

 

Hometown: Charleston, SC

 

Album: New single

 

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Website:  https://www.sustoisreal.com/bio-team

 

 

 

Parker Milsap – Wilderness Within You

 

Hometown: Purcell, Oklahoma

 

Album: Wilderness Within you

 

Review Snippet:  Next is arguably the set’s most affecting moment. The Gillian Welch enhanced title track finds the twosome dueting on lines such as There’s a story still unfolding, and I wish it always will, accompanied by subtle fiddle and Parker’s easy-plucked guitar. The song is beautiful, and poignant and resets the tone from the distressing tunes preceding it.

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Mike Kane – Ghosts of Different Stations

 

Hometown:  Attleboro, MA

 

Album:  From the album “String Of Lights” available on Sound cloud.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://soundcloud.com/mike-kane-743780282

 

 

 

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – El Dorado

 

Hometown: Santa Clara, CA

 

Album:  From the album “Crooked Tree”  on Nonsuch.

 

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Website:  https://www.mollytuttlemusic.com/bio

 

 

Jesse Lynn Madera – Hola Papi

 

Hometown: West Virginia

 

Album: First single.

 

Review Snippet:  Jesse Lynn Madera is a multi-faceted singer-songwriter who weaves a blend of pop, folk, blues, Americana, and jazz influences into her piano-driven compositions. Her vocals are powerful and haunting in one instant, and light, whimsical, and sweet in the next as she moves seamlessly and effortlessly across genres. A brief listen to just a few of her songs – the accordion-driven, colorful, and catchy “¡Hola Papi!”; the melodic, optimistic, acoustic pop sounds of “Revel;” and the dramatic virtuosic “Dante” – immediately telegraphs that this is an artist who goes where her muse takes her.

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Jefferson Berry and the UAC – Long Way From Home

 

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

 

Album: From the album, “Prairie Fire” out this Friday, June 9.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://www.jeffersonberry.com/

 

Jefferson Berry combines story telling in the Urban Folk tradition with the intricacies of JamBand and Roots instrumentation.

Playing a variety of guitar styles, Berry’s projects bring a danceable groove and contemporary point of view to Philadelphia’s local music scene. With the release of his third album in four years, this reputation is spreading nationally.

 

 

Freyr – Lines In Your Palm

 

Hometown:  Lulea, Sweden

 

Album:  Old single.

 

Review Snippet:

Website:  https://freyrmusic.net/

 

Peter One – Staring Into The Blues

 

Hometown:  Nashville via Ivory Coast.

 

Album: From the album “Come Back To Me”

 

Review Snippet:  Born Pierre-Evrard Tra—a first and most joyful arrival—Peter One grew up in Bonoua, a small town in southeastern Cote d’Ivoire about thirty miles from Abidjan, the economic center of the
nation. There was only one radio station in Bonoua, though it played all kinds of music–enough to bend Peter’s young ears towards the American country and folk that informs his music to this day. Having first learned guitar at the age of seventeen, Peter developed stylistic affinities for African troubadours like Benin’s G.G. Vickey and the Cameroonian Eboa Lotin, which he began to blend with the chordal and harmonic lushness of some of his American favorites, Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Hearing Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” for the first time was transformative for Peter: “That song, it sounded to me like something that I’d heard already, something that I love already, you know? The melodies, the harmonies in the vocals, in the guitar, and the simplicity of the music. Not too many instruments, not too many electronics: it was music the way I want music to be.”

Website:  https://www.peteronemusic.com/#/

 

 

Dakota Jones – Misbehave Me

 

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

 

Album: Heartbreakers Space Club second album

 

Review Snippet:

Website: https://www.instagram.com/dakotajonesband/?hl=en

 

 

 

Susto.