Being one of five boys in my family i’m seriously thinking of getting us all together and forming a band because at the moment any band made up of such siblings seems guaranteed success. We have the Felice brothers, The sumner, The deadstring, Avett and now The Wood brothers. From what i can gather they are originally from Colorado but they went their seperate ways to try and forge a career in the ruthless music world. Some of you may have heard of Chris wood as he’s the bass player in Medeski, Martin and Wood. They released Ways not to lose in March 2006 and they have now just released loaded. Loaded may not be as rustic as the afore mentiond ways not to lose but it’s still down to earth enough with guest vocals from the likes of Amos lee, Pieta Brown (daughter of Greg incase you didn’t know) and is produced by John Medeski from MMW. What we have is country/folk/blues played extremely well by two brothers who clearly love playing together. Some comparisons have been made with Van Morrison but I also hear traces of the rather elusive Sanders Bohlke as well as Amos. Loaded comes with three cover versions, the tradional song ‘Make me down a pallet on your floor’, A pretty good version of Dylan’s ‘Buckets of rain’ and Jimi hendrixs’ ‘Angel’ with Amos lee. Currently on a pretty big U.S tour and from various reviews are meant to be a storming live act. It could be a great year for the Wood brothers.
Just came across the album May be some time by Brighton born but now London based artist Jon Redfern after reading about his latest release Acoustic. Man, what a debut album this is !! Signed to the brilliant revealrecords label (Nels andrew, Kris drever, joan as policwoman) There’s strings, Piano, some lush guitar playing, a great voice and he even manages to have some sax in there without it sounding cheesy. Obvious comparisons with John martyn and Nick drake are mentioned in just about every review you read but he does add his own style to it too with elements are electro in one or two tracks and some poppier more accessible moments. Stand out tracks for me are Home at last (Which really reminds me of a song i can’t quite think of right now and it’s annoying the hell out of me) and I love the sun, the latter you can hear a stripped down version on his latest release also. I’m listening to the album with the sun just setting out of the window, it’s a nice spring evening, the smell of fresh cut grass wafting in from outside, new flowers everywhere, glass of wine in hand and this album seems to be the ideal soundtrack for such a beautiful evening.
Howdy y’all. We have decided to try and bring you a weekly radio show playing an eclectic mix of sounds. Some you may hear on this very blog some you may hear in the future and some you may never hear again, who’s to say? What you will get each week is an hours worth of music for the time being from me your host Geordie until I can work out how to bring a weekly show live on air. Hopefully you will like the musical selections but if you like this blog then i’m sure you will.This is all work in progress and we will eventually get round to putting a direct on the homepage so you don’t have to go looking through the archives to find the show. Each show will be up for about a week or so for you to listen to and as i say we will eventually get round to making it all look jazzy with playlists etc.But in the meantime here is the first show. No jingles or anything it’s all about the music here, hope you enjoy it.
Just a very quick post although to be honest will probabaly come back to it as Dan Mangan deserves a lot more attention than i am giving him now. However, I had to post immediately because i believe he could go big any time. From various reviews of his album postcards and daydreaming i have read he’s similar to a stripped down Ryan Adams, Damien rice without the accent, Leonard Cohen for his poetic songwriting and all of these are very true. Personally i think there is some traces of J Tillman especially in the slowness that he plays, often coming to an almost standstill. Some real sad stuff going on here and Dan’s gruff voice compliment his songs perfectly.
Looked on cdbaby.com for the cd but says it’s permanantly out of stock (was originally released in 2005) and his own website just has the option of downloading from i-tunes. If i can find anywhere selling the cd i will post asap. In the meantime listen to these absolute beauties. This is great stuff.
McCarthy trenching it would seem is Nebraskas best kept secret. Signed to Conor Obersts (Bright eyes) team love label McCarthy’s self titled official debut came out in April 2007. He’s toured with fellow talented Nebraskans Mayday, Neva Dinova, The Good Life, Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor, Bright Eyes and many others which may give you some idea of his sound. A mixture of Bar room waltzes, poppy alt-country and some sweet ballads make up the album. I think 2008 could be the year McCarthy steps from out of the shadows of his contemporaries and possibly outshine them all.
“I’ve always loved the twang of hurt” – Thad Cockrell
Firstly, Please forgive me for the copy and paste of the description of Thad and his music but i’m so busy at the moment this saves me a hell of a lot of time.
North Carolina singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell hails from the old school of country music, the days before Nashville went pop. “There’s no ‘alt’ in my country,” says Cockrell, who possesses the kind of high-lonesome, wistful tenor that’ll make you long for a cabin in the pines, or set you to yearning for a long-lost love. But as a youngster growing up in Tampa, Fla., Cockrell didn’t have rock ’n’ roll or country records around the house. His father was, and still is, a Baptist preacher (as are his two brothers). His first exposure to the pure country sound came from listening to folks like Merle Haggard and George Jones on commercial radio. At home, there was always plenty of Southern gospel music.
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A real, genuine son of a preacher man, he released an album with Caitlin Cary (Whiskeytown) called Begonias in 2005 and fans of Gram parsons/ Emmylou harris will enjoy that for sure, Their voices compliment each other perfectly. This is what i call Real country music, honest heartfelt songs of love and heartache, backed up by a pedalsteel, violin, piano basically everything you would expect in country music but brilliantly produced by Brad Jones who keeps it all tightly knit together, a pure gem of an album.
As for Thads Brand new EP To be loved, although country he seems to have developed a sound more akin to Royal Wood, some Ryan Adams and at other times old Troubadours like Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clarke, (Who incidentally is now 70 years old and has just released on his best ever albums) and the recently departed genius John Stewart (The kingston trio). As it’s only a 6 track EP i’m only offereing one Mp3 ‘Country of my own’ which is a song of searching for a place he belongs to which seems to hit home given the current political climate across the world, not just in America. The song ‘Talk to the press’ which you can hear on his myspace is something i could imagine Paul simon singing, the comparisons on that are quite spooky. By the way this boy can sing, imagine blending Ryan adams, Paul simon and Gram parsons together and you get somewhere close.
In his own words he is trying to “Bring the hurt back into country music” and so far he’s doing a mighty fine job.
Just a quickie as i’ve got no MP’3’s a single MP3 to offer as of yet but i just had to write about Pete Molinari straight away. I have just ordered his Debut album ”walking off the map‘ (vinyl) which was recorded in Billy childishs’ Kitchen. It’s Billy’s wife who sings along on the track ‘we belong together’. His new album ‘Virtual landslide’ is released on 31st March, you can pre-order that here.
He has a voice which is truly his own but often gets compared with Dylan, guthrie and even Patsy Cline!! I do think at times he does sound like Dylan but i think Ian Felice has that crown at the moment, he’s almost like a clone. You can check for yourself here and here what you think Pete sounds like. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that what looks like to be the Cover of his soon to be released album is extremely similar to Dylans ‘Desire‘.
Pete is from Chatham, Kent and since reading Kerouac’s ‘On the road‘ and Guthries’ Bound for glory‘ as a teenager he seems to have totally submerged himself in that culture and the sounds of those times even going as far as playing the cafe’s and bars of ‘Greenwitch Village’ learning his trade as well as in New Orleans,San francisco and back here in europe, in Paris..
But don’t be mistaken, he’s no copy cat. He writes well crafted songs which of course given his tastes are always going to be compared to Dylan, Guthrie etc but he still maintains his own style throughout, especially his singing style. Anyway, just listen and make your own mind up but i have say i’m pretty excited by this Guy, just as much as i was when i first heard The Felice brothers last year over at Songs illinois and anyone who knows me knows how excited i was and still am about them. Enjoy
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