Sound Cloud Sunday – November 4, 2018 (Episode 30)

           Sound Cloud Sunday November 4, 2018

 

Daylight savings is over and we begin our short descent into darkness (madness?) and although the summer never kisses us goodbye at Laurel Canyon Radio (it hit 90 degrees yesterday) we know the inclination across the world is to hunker down for more than a few months of scarves, hats, gloves, boots, et al.  Except of course if you are from Australia including our new favorite band Mustered Courage is from.  We are featuring more than a few tracks from Down Under and All Over this week and we hope you enjoy our international Laurel Canyon-esque flair this week.

 

 Listen to this week’s ep of Sound Cloud Sunday show live at 3pm PST Sunday and again 11pm PST Monday…and then below after that….

The Deep Hollow – Real Life

 

Hometown:  Springfield, IL

Album:  From their album “Weary Traveler” out November 9 (self-released)

 

Review Snippet:  Reminiscent of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with the poetic grace of John Prine.

 

Website:  http://thedeephollow.com/

 

 

 

 

Saskia Griffiths-Moore – Joy Of Defeat

 

Hometown:  Bristol, UK

Album: New single courtesy also featured on the 2017 Music Without Measures EP “Write Me A Song”

 

Review Snippet:

Website: http://www.saskiagm.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old Heavy Hands – Fall Back In

 

 

Hometown:  Greensboro, NC

Album: From their second album “Mercy”  released in September on Cheap Thrills Records.

 

Review Snippet:  They say appearances are everything, but in the case of North Carolina’s tattooing troubadours, Old Heavy Hands, appearance is a livelihood. The unassuming trio comprised of Nate Hall, Larry Wayne and David Self are crafting some of the finest southern music. Old Heavy Hands lives just as comfortably on the record shelf next to Willie Nelson or Neil Young as it does between Lucero and Wilco.

 

Website: https://www.oldheavyhands.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pierce Brothers – Back End Roads

 

Hometown:  Melbourne, Australia

Album: Their debut album “Atlas Shoulders” came out on October 26

 

Review Snippet:  The brothers’ intrinsic unity has also been of assistance during the writing of their forthcoming album. “We chop and change a lot with our musical tastes. For our debut album, we have all of these really different ideas. One song we are working on at the moment has this Killers-style anthem, yet we aren’t sure how we are going to pull this off. We have all of these ideas from country to folk, even some big old rock songs.”

Website: https://www.piercebrothers.com.au/

 

 

 

Belle Plaine – For All Those I Love

 

Hometown:  Fosston, Saskatchewan, Canada

Album:  From her self-released third album “Malice Mercy Grief and Wrath”  out in October.

Review Snippet: “If Patsy Cline and Blossom Dearie had a love child she would sing like Belle Plaine. Belle’s voice is old timey and jazzy. It has twang, crystal bells and swing. You listen to this voice, and all of a sudden your cheatin’ heart has a very dry martini in hand, and you’re hearing something both timeless and brand new.”

 

Web Site: https://belleplainemusic.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doug Paisley – Shadows

 

Hometown:  Toronto

Album:  His 4th album “Starter Home” was released on Friday on No Quarter.

 

Review Snippet:  , a tender-hearted stoic from Toronto whose songs land on the sweet spot between Kris Kristofferson and Gordon Lightfoot, the language of country music puts poetry into the mundane heartbreaks and setbacks of daily existence.

Website: https://www.dougpaisley.com/

 

 

 

 

Gilmore/Roberts – Average Joe

 

Hometown:  South Yorkshire

Album: Their 5^th album “A Problem Of Our Kind” was released in October on Gr! Records.

 

Review Snippet:  The fifth studio album from award-winning folk/roots duo Gilmore & Roberts – their first release since 2016’s live album In Our History, which celebrated a decade of performing together.

‘We realised most of songs on the album deal with different aspects of being human – some negative, like selfishness or materialism, and some more positive, like our sentimental side or philanthropy” explains Jamie Roberts (vocals, guitar).

“Us humans are pretty complex” continues Katriona Gilmore (vocals, fiddle, mandolin). “Somehow it made us want to present these songs in quite a simple way.”

 

Recorded at the duo’s home in South Yorkshire by co-producer Ben Savage (well-known on the UK roots scene for his own acclaimed musical output with The Willows and Hannah Sanders), A Problem Of Our Kind contains some of the most stripped-back arrangements of Gilmore & Roberts’ career so far, alongside full-tilt band numbers featuring their regular festival rhythm section of Fred Claridge (drums) and Matt Downer (double bass).

 

Website https://www.gilmoreroberts.co.uk/

 

 

 

Hat Check Girl – Hard To Know

 

 

Hometown:  Maine

 

Album:  From their seventh album “Cold Smoke”  released in October on Galway Bay Records.

Review Snippet:  “Their music has a lo-fi, dark Americana feel. Both artists are very literate, almost studious with their craft. Though their is very much their own, you can hear influences from the likes of Eric Taylor, Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed weaving through.” –Maverick

Website:  http://hatcheckgirl.net/

 

 

 

 

 

Mustered Courage – Wrong Kind Of Medicine 

 

Hometown:  Melbourne, Australia

Album: From their album “When We Played With Fire” just released in September independently.

 

Review Snippet:  Mustered Courage breathe new life into the bluegrass, country and folk scene with a diverse sound that appeals to both traditionalists and newcomers alike. The Melbourne based quartet that Music Australia Guide describes as “the link between Bill Monroe and Mumford & Sons” has risen to the top of Australia’s folk and roots scene on the strength of their energetic live shows and albums that have won them glowing reviews, loads of radio support and a trophy at the 2015 CMAA Golden Guitar Awards for Instrumental of the Year – “Candle Creek.”

Website: https://www.musteredcourage.com

 

 

 

 

 

Escondido – Bullet   

 

Hometown:  Nashville

Album:  Their third album “Warning Bells”  was released in September on Kill Canyon/Tone Tree Music.

 

Review Snippet: One of the rare alt-country crossover acts with highbrow cred”

Website:  http://www.thebandescondido.com/

 

 

Chikaya D – She’s Going Steady

 

Hometown:  Tanzania

Album: Her debut album “The Village Girl” was released on Sustainable Records in September.

 

Review Snippet:

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

 

 

The Whileaways – Spare Me From The Heartache 

 

Hometown:  Ireland

Album:  Their album “From What We’re Made” was released independently in July.

 

Review Snippet:  Three albums on and The Whileaways are very comfortable in their own skin. This Galway-based trio of Noriana Kennedy, Noelie McDonnell and Nicola Joyce have been carving a career path peppered with roots, bluegrass and Americana influences for the past six years or so, and this collection bears testimony to that road well travelled.

Their calling cards are here in abundance: close-knit harmonies, low-key arrangements and a wide-horizon in their lyrical sweep. Third album in, there’s a greater depth to their chosen subject matter with the vicissitudes of life supplying the backbone to a full-bodied collection of original songs.

All three share the lead vocals role, with a breadth and depth mined by each voice in turn. Noriana Kennedy’s vocals are still a knockout: translucent and tenacious in equal measure.

 

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Website:  https://www.thewhileawaysmusic.com/

 

 

 

Rhyece O’Neill and the Narodniks – Dead Hills And Catacombs 

 

Hometown:  Australia

Album:  Their second album “Death of A Gringo” was released in July on Beast Records.

 

Review Snippet:  Think Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds meets the old school sounds of The Veils meets Mark Lanegan…Filled with tension and drunken swagger with a deliciously complementing haunting violin: Australian singer songwriter Rhyece O’Neill impresses us.

 

Website: https://www.rhyeceoneill.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna St. Louis – Mean Love 

Hometown:   Los Angeles

 

Album:  From her debut album “If There Was Only A River”  released in October on Woodsist Mare.

 

Review Snippet:   At last, on the exquisitely rendered If Only There Was a River, St. Louis has started to do just that. She still writes about the sad shapes the heart can take and the loneliness that the expanses of the West can produce. And traces of restlessness pervade these 11 songs, from the Appalachia moan of the fiddle-chased “Hello” to the slightly sinister crackle of the electric “Wind.” But on a record that unfurls with the pastoral ease of Neil Young’s Harvest Moon and the idiomatic flexibility of Buffy Saint-Marie’s best, she seems to have made definitive choices about the type of songs she sings and how she builds them with her band. Alongside a sympathetic crew that includes producer Kevin Morby and Pavo Pavo multi-instrumentalist Oliver Hill, St. Louis embraces a sense of elegant austerity here, so that these tunes never do too much at once. She writes, musically and lyrically, so that the emotions expressed and the genres explored are never simple or clear. Rather than continue the search and strive for more, St. Louis has settled on simply being.

Next Time in Los Angeles:  Zebulon December 2 and 9^th.

Website:  https://annastlouis.bandcamp.com/

 

 

 

Dan McNay – In A Dream 

 

Hometown:  Los Angeles

Album:  His debut album “Banjo Stories” was self-released.

 

Review Snippet:

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Website:  http://www.danmcnay.com/