Sound Cloud Sunday May 13, 2018 Episode #14

Sound Cloud Sunday May 13, 2018  Episode #14

            

 Happy Mother’s Day to all from Laurel Canyon radio….we’re genre-chasing our way around the music industry today with a boat load of indie music from all corners of our musical collective!  Enjoy this week’s edition.  

 

 

 

 

Midnight Skyracer – Virginia Rose

 

Hometown:  London and America

Album:  From their debut album “Fire” self-released in February.

 

Review Snippet: High-energy playing, characterful and strongly individual solo and harmony singing, high-class original songwriting, and a real talent for cutting through to the core of old-time bluegrass standards.

 

Web Site:  http://midnightskyracer.com

 

 

 

Joel Levi – Middle of Everywhere

 

Hometown:  Nashville via Indiana

Album:  Self-titled debut album released May 4 on Essential Agency

 

Review Snippet: Taking a page out of the playbook of artists like Dawes and Jason Isbell, Joel Levi is all about weaving a searingly heartfelt string into his brand of hearth-made Americana.

 

Web Site:  http://www.joellevimusic.com/

 

 

 

Rebelution – Healing

 

Hometown:  Santa Barbara, California

Album: From the sixth album “Free Rein” out June 15 on Easy Star Records.

 

Review Snippet:  These reggae stalwarts have been touring and recording for 14 years.

 

Next Time In LA:  Touring with Stephen Marley at Pacific Amphitheatre in Irvine in August.

Website: http://rebelutionmusic.com

 

 

 

 

Chastity Brown – Whisper  

 

 

Hometown:  Minneapolis

Album:   From the 2017 album “Silhouette of Sirens” on Red House.

 

Review Snippet:   Brown doesn’t always write from first-person experience, but her life history informs her unique blend of country, soul, and blues.

Website:  http://chastitybrownmusic.com/

 

 

Arkansas Dave – Chocolate Jesus

 

 

Hometown:  Austin, TX

Album:   From his self titled debut album on Big Indie Records.

 

Review Snippet:   Rather than playing into the hands of a genre-driven industry, the rebel within Arkansas Dave continues his fight against society as he delves into the world of Rock, Blues, Punk, Grunge and dare we say it, Country. And he delivers them all with a gritty, raw realness that will shake you to the core.

 

Website:  https://arkansasdave.com/

 

 

 

Logan Magness – Thank You For Choosing Heartbreak

 

Hometown:  Memphis

Album:  From the album “Memphis On My Mind” on Wolf River Records

 

Review Snippet:  Memphis on My Mind was recorded at Prairie Sun Studios (Tom Waits, The Mountain Goats), in Cotati, California, before his move back to Memphis, utilizing a number of celebrated Bay Area musicians to back his vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica work. Tracked predominantly live and rich with analog tones, the album recalls the warmth and fidelity of garage rock records of yore

Website:  https://www.wolfriverrecords.com/news/

 

 

 

 

 

Sera Cahoone – Dusty Lungs

 

 

Hometown: Seattle

Album: From the “Flora Strings Sessions” EP just out on Lady Muleskinner Records.

Review Snippet: Across her four critically-acclaimed albums, Seattle artist Sera Cahoone has become known for creating stirring, hushed Americana music that embodies raw emotionalism. Her songs have always been the sort that grab the listener by the collar and pull them close. And yet fans may not even realize they’ve yet been held at arm’s length until they hear the revisited arrangements on her new, forthcoming EP, The Flora String Sessions, due for self-release on April 20, 2018.

Website: https://www.seracahoone.com/

 

 

The Young Novelists – Two of A Kind

 

Hometown:   Toronto

Album:  From the album “In City and Country”, self-released May 4.

 

Review Snippet:  The album opens with “Two Of A Kind” a sentimental ballad inspired by the town of Goderich; keyboardist Jeffrey Louch shines on the almost-love song that tells the tale of a woman trying to choose between two men.

Website:  http://theyoungnovelists.com/

 

 

 

Sam Lewis – Loversity  

 

Hometown:  New York

Album: From the just released album “Loversity” on Tone Tree Music

Review Snippet: “Rising singer-songwriter Sam Lewis had nothing to do with the press release where he is called a “Modern Day Townes Van Zandt.” But, he tells Billboard that he appreciates the term – and lays credit for it to one of Country Music’s biggest stars.”

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Website:  https://www.samlewistunes.com/

 

 

 

Kerri Powers – Somewhere On The Vine  

 

 

Hometown:  Hartford, CT

Album:  From her just self-released album “Star Seeds”

 

Review Snippet:  …Songs Flush With Expressive Emotions And A Slight Slant Towards The Blues, Starseeds Is Powers’ Most Definitive Statement Yet, One That Finds A Common Bond In Both Its Music And Its Message. Its Eight Originals And Two Choice Covers — A Moving Take On Blind Faith’s Restive Anthem “Can’t Find My Way Home” And “Polly,” A Lovely Song Of Wistful Reflection Written By The Late Gene Clark — Find Her Sharing Her Sentiments In Ways That Ring With Authenticity. At Times, She Comes Across As A Backwoods Chanteuse, Showing Off A Folky Finesse That Affirms A Knowing Delivery. Suffice It To Say, Starseeds Shines.

Website:  https://www.kerripowers.com/

 

 

 

Goodnight Texas – Taking Your Word For It

 

Hometown: San Francisco and North Carolina

Album:  From their just released third album “Conductor” on 2 Cent Back Check Records

Review Snippet:  At the crossroads of folk and blues and rock ‘n’ roll, in a place where dry wit and dark truths meet hope and utmost sincerity.

Website:  https://hiwearegoodnighttexashowareyou.com/

 

Eric Corne – Mad World

Hometown:  Los Angeles via Canada

Album:  From his album “Happy Songs For The Apocalypse” on Forty Below Records.

 

Review Snippet:  Eric Corne’s new album Happy Songs for the Apocalypse is a patchwork of Americana; drawing on folk, blues and rock n’ roll with tinges of alt country. Lyrically, the album is an indictment of a world careening into a second gilded age, numbed by new technologies and the false hope of materialism. “It seems the future’s running a little late/and I’m driving backwards through a different day,” sings Corne on “Pull String to Inflate.” The song features lead guitar by long-time Mavis Staples axman, Rick Holmstrom, one of many top-shelf sidemen Corne calls on to animate this ambitious collection of songs.

Website:  http://ericcornemusic.com/

 

 

 

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage – I Met A Man

 

Hometown:  Cambridge, UK

Album:  This is a new single.

Review Snippet:   Fleetingly, they may evoke a memory of Gram & Emmylou, Shirley & Davey, or Gillian & David but their warm distilling of influences from both sides of the Atlantic produces a refined sound that is decidedly their own.

Website:  https://www.hannahbenmusic.com/

 

 

 

Last of The Easy Riders – Silver Canyon

 

Hometown:  Denver, CO

Album:  From the album “Unto The Earth” available on Bandcamp

 

Review Snippet: From high in the Rocky Mountains, Last of the Easy riders descend with Unto the Earth, its new psych-infused country-rock long-player.

 

Website: https://lastoftheeasyriders.bandcamp.com/

 

 

Hawktail – Abbzug

 

Hometown:  Various

Album: Their debut album “Unless” is out on Paddiddle Records.

 

Review Snippet:  Haas Kowert Tice brought on mandolinist Dominick Leslie to form Hawktail. Music fans will recognize them from their various other outfits (Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, Crooked Still, A Prairie Home Companion) and enjoy this unique instrumental offering.Road Rules and Making The Band, and his song “Josephine,” featured on his debut album, won a songwriter’s competition on Ourstage.com.

 

Website:  https://www.hawktailmusic.com/