Category: Artists We Like

Playlist of the Day: Afterthoughts and Complicated Scenes

playlistThis playlist features cover songs performed by prominent Country artists. You might find many of these artists under the Americana genre, but be careful, most of them hate to be classified that way. They prefer to be called Country artists. Here we have a mix of new school and old school including Waylon Jennings, Amy Helm, newcomer Kirby Brown, and many more.

Spotify Playlist

01. Romeo’s Tune – Nicki Bluhm

02. Baker Street – Waylon Jennings

03. Mandolin Wind – Amy Helm

04. My Fathers Gun – Miranda Lambert

05. Mona Lisa’s and Mad Hatters – Maren Morris

06. Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – Kirby Brown

07. Wish You Were Here – Cody Jinks

08. Come A Little Closer – Willie Deville

09. Purple Rain – Dwight Yoakam

10. Right Down The Line – Bonnie Raitt

11. Dark End of the Street – Ry Cooder

12. Before The Next Teardrop Falls – Linda Martell

13. Cry Like a Baby – Hacienda Brothers

14. You Got Lucky – Blackberry Smoke

15. Abraham, Martin and John – The Band of Heathens

 

Five Cool Ones: Five Cool Americana Roots Rock Records You May Have Missed

5Kirby Brown – Uncommon Prayer

“Gimme a week and a ride to the downtown station with a dollar to my name, I don’t much care where it’s going, just anywhere that’s gone.” With your introduction to a new musician that you have never heard before jumping right out at you between your ears like it does on “Gimme a Week” from Kirby Brown’s highly excellent 2018 release Uncommon Prayer there is cause for celebration. Don’t sleep on his cover of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”. It is worth the price of admission alone.

Ruby Boots – Don’t Talk About It

If you are looking for a place to find really cool new music you could not go wrong wandering over the Bloodshot Music site and searching through any of the number of artists in their stable. Ruby Boots and her latest, Don’t Talk About It, look forward to meeting you there.

Kevin Gordon – Tilt and Shine

The musicscapes created here all first rate and read like a Cormac McCarthy novel. Whether it’s “Drunken Man In Town,” “One Road Out (Angola Rodeo Blues),” or “Gatling Gun” Kevin Gordon has captured the short story in a three-minute song.

Larkin Poe – Venom & Faith

These young girls take Country Blues to the next level. The songs are all gritty, down in the gutter with Tom Waits. If you don’t believe it, just check out “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues”.

Sam Morrow – Concrete and Mud

Outlaw Country is alive and well and his name might be Sam Morrow.

 

Live Video of the Day: Hootie and the Blowfish – I Only Wanna Be With You (The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon)

After a highly successful crossover career Darius Rucker, aka Hootie, has reassembled his band The Blowfish and will be releasing an album in early 2019.

Yet another Nashville act that is tragically under the musical radar, Goodbye June features a trio of cousins that are quietly trying to carry the Rock ‘N’ Roll torch in the 21st century. Forgive them for their Budweiser commercial, everybody needs to make a buck, and listen to their Southern-fried blues and Gospel soul.

Video of the Day: Victor Wainwright and the Train – Thank You Lucille

Starting out his musical life as a Roots Rock ‘N’ Roll act, Rufus Wainwright has reinvented himself in fine fashion as a Blues-Rock band. Since he is fronting a piano-based band expect a lot of good times boogie-woogie served with a side order of New Orleans blues. The self-titled new record is tremendous and should be heard by more ears. “Thank You, Lucille” is a tribute to B.B. King and his signature guitar.