Sound Cloud Sunday – March 7, 2021

Sound Cloud Sunday March 7, 2021

Happy first week of March!  Spring is in the air, hope is on the horizon.  A live concert, somewhere in the next few months?  We can only hope.  Enjoy another hour of fantastic indie music from around the world.  Click below to hear the whole show:

 

Kitty Rose & The Rattlers – Eagle Rock

 

Hometown:  Hopland, California

Album:     From the EP “Minor Suite” out February 16 on Crackerjill Records.

 

Review Snippet: The Houston native played in an early ’80s lesbian band in San Francisco before hitting Hollywood in its hair metal sleaziest. Trying her luck as an Americana singer-songwriter and fronting a country-rock band in the ’90s, she eventually ended up in Nashville where she established her alter ego, Kitty Rose, as a traditional country singer before zeroing in on the rockabilly concept.

 

Website:  https://www.kittyroseandtherattlers.com/

 

 

The Bones of J.R. Jones – Stay Wild

 

Hometown:  Central New York

Album:     New single out on Tone Tree.

 

Review Snippet: Next month, The Bones of J.R. Jones—the project of New York singer-songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Robert Linaberry—will release a new EP called A Celebration, which was largely inspired by the sprawling deserts of the Southwest. Today he shares the EP’s second single, premiering below, and it’s a wistful, weathered folk number about yearning to “Stay Wild.”

 

Website:  http://thebonesofjrjones.com/

 

Ida Mae – Click Click Domino

 

Hometown: Norfolk, UK

Album:     Single released last Friday the album of the same name out on July 16 on Vow Road Records.

 

Review Snippet: Sweltering, soul-moving guitar work rumbles through “Click Click Domino,” a new song from Nashville/London duo Ida Mae. And you can thank prolific guitarist Marcus King for such raw, musical velocity. Released on Wednesday (March 3), the track serves as the title to the duo’s sophomore record, set to drop July 16 via Thirty Tigers.

 

Website:  https://idamaemusic.com/

 

 

William The Conqueror – Wake Up

 

Hometown: Edinborough, Scotland

Album:     From the album “ Maverick Thinker” on newly reconfigured Chrysalis Records.

 

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Website:  https://williamtheconqueror.net/

 

 

Vivian Leva and Riley Caudagno – Will You

 

Hometown: Lexington, VA

Album:     Their debut duo album is out March 12 on Free Dirt Records.

 

Review Snippet:  Vivian Leva’s voice is the sound of living tradition. Raised by parents who absorbed ancient tunes and ballads during visits to legendary old-time musicians, Leva grew up steeped in the Appalachian and country music of her Lexington, VA home. On Time Is Everything, her label debut, Leva earns a spot in the lineage of great neo-traditional songwriters like Gillian Welch and Sarah Jarosz. And much like these singers, Leva finds inspiration in the past without being stifled by it.

 

Website:  https://www.vivianleva.com/

 

 

Alex Bleeker – La La La

 

Hometown: Ridgewood, NJ

Album:     From the album “Heaven On The Faultline” out March 5 on Night Bloom Records.

 

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Website:  http://www.bleekerfreaks.com/

 

 

Plankton Wat – Teenage Daydream

 

Hometown:  Portland, Oregon

Album:     From the album “Future Times” released in February on Thrill Jockey

 

Review Snippet: Recorded in the Spring of 2020, with most of the United States sheltering in place, Future Times began as a meditation on the times. With the optimism of Spring and the promise of Summer replaced by anxiety about the future, music became an important means of processing difficult emotions and connecting with the outside world. Mahood developed pieces created with musical partner Dustin Dybvig and engineer/producer Victor Nash, transmuting the expansive energy of the live improvisations into lean guitar, bass and keyboards compositions. Pieces were then passed to Dybvig and Nash who fleshed out Mahood’s initial compositions with lustrous layers of synthesiser and subtle studio effects. Future Times transforms Plantkon Wat from a purely solo project into a virtual ensemble, itself a testament to art’s power to transcend physical and social boundaries.

 

Website:  https://planktonwat.bandcamp.com/album/future-times

 

 

Melissa Carper – Back Then

 

Hometown:  All Over

Album:     From the album “ Daddy’s Country Gold” will be released March 17 on Mae Music.

 

Review Snippet:  Review of ‘Arkansas Bound’ (debut solo album, 2015)  ‘With her bass making a dependable rhythmic anchor, Melissa Carper sings like a bird soaring “where the wind blows high above the trees” as Bob Dylan said. . . . “Gamblin’ Bar Room Blues” is her brilliant take on Rodger’s variation of “St. James Infirmary” . . .When Jellema switches to coronet he and Carper nod to the on-record teaming of Rodgers and Louis Armstrong with the Rodgers-ish “Gettin’ Arkansas Plates.”  Then follows the beautiful “I’ll Always Be a Fool for Love”, a one-two punch again highlighting Carper as a triple threat; singer, bassist and songwriter.’  Rick Allen, Vintage Guitar Magazine

 

Website:  http://www.melissacarper.com/

 

 

Murder Valley – Tom Dooley

 

Hometown: Leon Spain

Album:    From the album “Rifles And Rope” available on Bandcamp .

 

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Website: https://murdervalley.bandcamp.com

 

 

 

Pony Bradshaw – Calico Jim

 

Hometown:  Chatsworth, GA

Album:     From the album “Calico Jim” released January 29 on Black Mountain Music.

 

Review Snippet:There isn’t a prevailing sound on this album. You could call it an alt-country album. And you wouldn’t be wrong. However, that doesn’t tell the full story. The fiddle on songs like “Let Us Breathe” brings a definite Appalachian sound while the steel guitars lend more of a desert sound. Meanwhile, the vocals bear some similarity to Lyle Lovett.

 

Website: https://www.ponybradshaw.net/

 

 

The Accidentals – Wildfire

 

Hometown:  Traverse City, MI

Album:     .New single.

 

Review Snippet: From heartfelt contemplation to feeling like an outsider, and a love of the natural world around them, “Odyssey” displays a maturity and complexity well beyond The Accidentals’ years (all three members are in their early 20s).

 

Website:  https://www.theaccidentalsmusic.com/

 

 

Orchard Fire – Follow

 

Hometown:  Columbia, Missouri

Album:     From the EP “The Temperance Sessions”

 

Review Snippet: Totally folk music, very new sounding while still tied to the long history of contempory folk. This is what many neofolk groups attempt to make, but Fire on Fire thankfully never cross that line into that messy genre. At times they remind me of some of Neil Young’s mid-career more folk-songy songs. Soothing to the psyche much as Lullaby for the Working Class is, simple and graceful songs as stories with somewhat unconventional but still tasteful acoustic accompaniment.

 

Website: http://www.orchardfire.com/

 

 

John Coggins – One Last Kiss

 

Hometown:  Los Angeles

Album:    From the album “Sounds That I Love” February 16 on Atrium Music.

 

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Website:  https://www.johncoggins.com/

 

 

Marty Thompson – No Sizeable Thing

 

Hometown:  West Texas

Album:     Album “Attics” self-released in December.

 

Review Snippet:  an infectious groove, a solid hood, catchy lyrics and solid production values

 

Website:  http://martyt.com/

 

 

The Big Takeover – Get It

 

Hometown: Hudson Valley, NY

Album:     From the album “Spilling Water”  released on January 1

 

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Website:  https://www.bigtakeoverband.com/about

 

 

  Eric Bazilian – Sarah When She’s Sleeping

 

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

Album:    Released on 300 Hairy Bears.

 

Review Snippet: I must admit I was a huge Hooters fan; I have all their albums and only had the opportunity to see them once. So, I was disappointed to hear of their demise, especially because their last album was one of their strongest. Anyway, I was very eager to hear Eric’s solo effort. There are some very good songs on The Optimist; namely U.G.L.Y, Until You Dare and Driving in England. The rest are average to good. If you are a Hooters fan the 3 strong songs are alone worth the money. In listening to the rest I just feel that this album lacks one thing: Rob Hyman! They made such a great team and complimented each other’s work so well. I will still look for any solo efforts that either of these two make do but I really wish they would put out some collaboration.

 

Website:  https://www.ericbazilian.com/