Earlier this month, Brooklyn indie rockers the Antlers announced a new EP called Undersea, and today, the leadoff cut from that release has surfaced (pun intended). It’s called “Drift Dive,” and it’s a slow-building, slide guitar-laden ode, replete with a horn section and distorted Peter Silberman vocals. It sounds like it’s underwater, which is probably not a coincidence.
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Robyn Ludwick puts real soul into alt-country, Texas style, in her new CD, Out Of These Blues. Ms. Ludwick’s songwriting and vocal skills are extraordinary throughout the album. Gurf Morlix produced and played on the record along with an impressive cast including Ian MacLagan, John Ludwick (Ms. Ludwick’s husband), Eddie Cantu, Gene Elders, Trish Murphy, and Slaid Cleaves. The end product is one of the best albums I’ve heard in 2011.
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For their latest release, June’s Longtime Companion, San Fransisco-based genre swappers Sonny & the Sunsets tred into country territory. It’s a fitting musical landscape for frontman Sonny Smith’s brokenhearted narrator, who pines for lost lovers and a firmer sense of self. All of those elements are present in the standout track “Pretend You Love Me”, even if they aren’t directly there in the video.
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“Garden Party” is a 1972 hit song for Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band from the album Garden Party. The song tells the story of Nelson being booed off the stage at Madison Square Garden, seemingly because he was playing his newer, country-tinged music instead of the 1950s-era rock that he had been successful with earlier, and his realization that “you can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself”.
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A lot can happen in a year. For Texas singer/songwriter Jamie Wilson, the list of accomplishments since 2009 is pretty impressive. She’s been a major force in the creation and release of three major projects: her debut record as a solo artist, the debut record of The Trishas (of which she is one of the band members), and her first child–10 week-old daughter Joanie. During this time, she’s also experienced the rapid rise of The Trishas–from a slapped-together, two-song tribute to songwriter Kevin Welch by four girl singers at Steamboat’s MusicFest, to a polished, touring stage act on the verge of signing a major publishing deal in Nashville this week. It’s been some year.
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One of a handful of amazing records Kirk (1936–1977) made for Atlantic in the late ’60s, Volunteered Slavery argues that Kirk was at the same time also a detail guy, attuned to the galvanic power of small ideas. Lighting onto an up-tempo gospel rhythm, he nudges it just enough to subvert the expected amen cadences.
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Just three different versions of a classic country song. Originally written by Freddy Weller but first sung by Bob Luman. The acoustic jam version from Jamie Wilson and Courtney Patton is especially sweet, I think.
Weird Party
“How The Breast Stung”
The Secret Lives of Men 7″ EP
Twistworthy Records 2012
Gram Parsons is the father of country-rock. With the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, the songwriter pioneered the concept of a rock band playing country music, and as a solo artist he moved even further into the country realm, blending the two genres to the point that they became indistinguishable from each other. While he was alive, Parsons was a cult figure that never sold many records but influenced countless fellow musicians, from the Rolling Stones to the Byrds. In the years since his death, his stature has only grown, as numerous rock and country artists build on his small, but enormously influential, body of work.
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GRAND TRINE hail from Montreal, Canada. Their 7″ on Almost Ready Records comes with two songs which were originally included on a single by The Bohemians from way back in 1967.
One of Grand Trine’s members, Tobias Rochman, had a dad in a 60s garage rock band called The Bohemians and together Grand Trine have recreated the same Bohemians 7″ from 1967. “Say It” is quite a dirge if there ever was one.
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