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JASON ISBELL – ” Live at A Prairie Home Companion ” 12th November 2016

Posted: November 19, 2016 in MUSIC
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Over last weekend, Jason Isbell became the latest Americana heavyweight Country Rock artist to appear on the newly reincarnated Prairie Home Companion, now hosted by roots musician  Chris Thile.

Jason Isbell Singer-songwriter plays solo versions of “Speed Trap Town,” “24 Frames,” “Cover Me Up” and “Something More Than Free”

Isbell’s chilling rendition of “Speed Trap Town,” one of the highlights from his 2015 album Something More Than Free, It was one of four songs the singer-songwriter played during the historic radio show’s live taping in Philadelphia. In addition to “Speed Trap Town,” Isbell delivered flawless, solo acoustic renditions of favorites from his last two records, including “Something More Than Free,” “24 Frames” and his signature “Cover Me Up” from Southeastern. Watch them all here below.

“A lot of people in Nashville think that the best song is the catchiest,” said Isbell last year. “They’re editing songs in a way that make them seem more consumable. I’m trying to edit them in a way that makes them more honest.”
Isbell will continue his heavy year of touring with select dates throughout November and December, wrapping up 2016 with a New Year’s Eve show alongside John Prine and Kacey Musgraves at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.

SAMUEL JACK – ” Let It All Out “

Posted: November 17, 2016 in MUSIC
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It’s not often that your debut performance will land you a major festival slot.
Starting out predominately as a songwriter, Samuel Jack first stepped onto the stage at a local restaurant performing a range of cover tracks. Two weeks later, he was standing on stage at Glastonbury Festival.

Born in London, Samuel lived briefly in Johannesburg before exploring the world in his teens.

Eventually settling in Dorset, he gave up his apartment and decided to write, live and record in a caravan keeping in line with his travelling routes. From these sessions his debut EP ‘Let It All Out’ was born, a four track release blending gospel, electronica, folk and songwriter-pop.

Let It All Out by Samuel Jack.
Get Samuel’s new EP “Let It All Out”

LIV DAWSON – ” Still “

Posted: November 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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Liv Dawson is teenage talent that has a huge career ahead of her. Similar to artists like Billie Marten she has a very mature head (on young shoulders) and sounds like she has been performing for decades. Tapestry was a song that wetted critics’ mouths but that, in my opinion, was topped by Still. It is a gorgeous number that frames Dawson’s spellbinding voice and gravitas: an artist that can allure and seduce but has power and nuance in her voice. Lyrics are mature, world-wise and intelligent; the composition detailed but not too overcrowded. As 2017 comes into view, Dawson is a young artist that is going to gain more foothold and mark herself as a huge talent to watch.

BILLIE MARTEN – ” You Make My Dreams Come True ” Hall and Oates Cover

Posted: November 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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It’s startling to hear several generations of English folk-rock manifesting in the music of one 17-year-old girl. Nick Drake’s gentle whispers, Radiohead’s trembling balladry, the Staves’ breathless sonic panoramas and the quality of Laura Marling songs — those are just a few of the musical memories wrapped up in Billie Marten’s prodigious debut album Writing Of Blues and Yellows . Before voting age, she’s already consumed a lifetime’s worth of staggeringly beautiful music and synthesized it into a sound all her own. “Where does her start go from here?” she sings on breakthrough single  “Bird” We can’t wait to find out and Billie lets have a tour of the UK soon.

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ANGHARAD DRAKE – ” Baby “

Posted: November 15, 2016 in MUSIC
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Growing up in Brisbane, on the sun-drenched Gold Coast, it’s hard to imagine how Angharad Drake was inspired to make the music she does. The talented 23-year-old has shared her new single, “Baby”, the first to be lifted from her upcoming album, which will be released early in the new year.

Like fellow Australian’s Julia Jacklin and Gabriella Cohen, Angharad’s music seems to exist in a surprising world of Americana; indeed Angharad even takes it further into the Southern States, bringing to mind the gothic-Americana of acts like Weyes Blood or Marissa Nadler. Baby is a brooding blend of twanging slide, rolling percussion, and an effortlessly beautiful vocal performance, Angharad carrying all the heartache of, “a hopeless case” as she repeatedly pleads, “baby don’t go.” Angharad’s upcoming record will be her debut full-length recording, following on from a number of self-released EP’s.

Angharad Drake will release her new album late in Spring. Click HERE to keep up to date with Angharad’s music.

KEN YATES – ” Roll Me Home “

Posted: November 15, 2016 in MUSIC
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The Ontario Toronto-via-London, singer songwriter released his sophomore album,“Huntsville”, last week and with it came the first single, “Roll me on Home.” The track, which features guest vocals by Amanda Rheaume, is a perfectly crafted folk song about love as Yates sings, “I’ll be your rock, if you roll me on home.” This kind of alt-country song works perfectly with the weather getting colder and the leaves starting to change. He reminds me at times of Jackson Browne.

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BILLIE MARTEN – ” Heavy Weather “

Posted: November 12, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The folk prodigy comes of age. Released when she was just 17, Billie Marten’s debut album isn’t an astonishing achievement for a teen—it’s simply an astonishing achievement full stop. Her songs are gossamer light acoustic fairytales and they’re gorgeous.  The opener “La Lune” is mesmeric, “Lionhearted” shows there’s steel behind the beautiful melodies while the quietly epic “Hello Sunshine” charts a stormy and intoxicating orchestral course.

This seventeen-year-old Ripon native entered music less with a bang and more a mellifluous, spine-tingling call. Writing of Blues and Yellows is a vastly mature work from a singer not only tender in years but making her debut statement. Poetic, literary-referencing and brutally honest – Billie Marten is a singer songwriter that gets into your head and is impossible to shift. The album standout Heavy Weather is a vivid and picturesque song replete with pattered beats and tender finger-picking, a seductive (chorus) vocal and one of the most pin-sharp performances across the record – you envisage yourself battling the “English winter” with the heroine. Bird and Emily are utterly beguiling while Teeth addresses mental illness and is one of the most personal songs across the album “Writing of Blues and Yellows”. It is easy to find comparisons between Marten and her musical icons Nick Drake, John Martyn and Kate Bush. You command the talent and Folk wonder of Marten a four-star beauty that showcases a rare and wonderful young talent. Make sure you keep your eyes trained on a musician that has a bright and varied career ahead for sure.

The talented singer/songwriter based out of North Yorkshire, Isabella Sophie Tweddle, better known by her stage name Billie Marten, first caught the public’s attention in 2011 (at the age of 12) via a YouTube performance that garnered the budding musician over 100,000 views. By 2014 she had released her first EP, and began earning favorable comparisons to fellow English folkies like Laura Marling and Lucy Rose. The following year saw Marten ink a deal with Chess Club Records and release a second EP,.

GORDI – ” Clever Disguise ” EP

Posted: November 11, 2016 in MUSIC
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Sophie Payten, better known as Gordi. Growing up on her Canowindra family farm ‘Alfalfa’ and sprouting (rare Alfalfa gag) , the now Sydney based artist has integrated elements of electronica into her more folky roots with her stunning voice still taking centre stage.

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“Can We Work It Out” is the pulsating follow up to “Nothing’s As It Seems” and “Taken Blame”, the first 2 singles from Sydney-based, Gordi. The 22 year-old indie folk artist evokes a kind of nostalgia that lingers long after her strumming stops. A diverse musical diet including classic folk icons like Carole King, Paul Kelly and Joni Mitchell and their modern counterparts in The Tallest Man on Earth, Asgeir Trausti and Laura Marling bring a welcome sense of familiarity to her songs. But the craft in her songwriting is found partly in the emotional spectrum that her tracks span – from wistful aching to spirited celebration, her lyrical journeys take us places in our memories and imaginations that belie her 22 years. The candour in Gordi’s songs is matched by a vocal tone that is at once fractured and brimming with richness. Combining vintage vocal layering and earthy guitar textures with delicate modern electronic production, Gordi’s sonic palette is one she can call her own.

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GORDI – ” Avant Gardener ” Courtney Barnett Cover

Posted: November 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Gordi is a young folk artist we’ve developed a real thing for. Growing up in the small regional town of Canowindra, the singer-songwriter first caught our attention in 2014, when we named her ‘unsigned artist of the week’ then nominated her as Next Big Thing in the FBi SMAC Awards. Fast forward to 2016 and she’s landed an international label deal with Jagjaguwar Records, released this beautiful Courtney Barnett cover, and performed with Bon Iver on Jimmy Fallon.
Gordi — 23 year old Canowindra-born Sophie Payten. It’s music that gets it both ways — ambitious big pop that doesn’t give an inch of artistic concession. Here, wistful aching and longing can almost feel like a spirited celebration. It’s expansive and elegant. The songs on the Sydney-based artist’s debut EP Clever Disguise, which came out earlier this year .

NORMA JEAN MARTINE – ” Only In My Mind “

Posted: November 7, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Norma Jean Martine

Norma Jean Martine is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in New York, now living in the UK via a stint in Nashville. Her beautiful cover of George Michael’s track Freedom featured in the McArtherGlen’s European Spring Summer campaign, making it one of the songs of the summer.
The talented Norma Jean wrote, or co-wrote, every track on her debut album, but her songwriting credentials extend far beyond that; co-writing Ronan Keating’s lead single ‘Time of My Life’ from his recent album, as well as the Italian European Song Contest 2016 entry for Francesca Michielin.

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Norma Jean Martine’s debut album “Only In My Mind” was released on 14th October.

 

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