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MARGO PRICE – ” Hey Child “

Posted: January 28, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In 2012, country singer Margo Price wrote the soul-searching anthem “Hey Child” shortly after the death of her baby boy, Ezra. After being encouraged to re-record the song, The song touches on her past struggles with substance abuse and mental health when she was dealing with the loss of her son. Price shares that she and her husband, Jeremy Ivey, 42, delved into drinking and partying to cope with their loss. The country singer opens up about battling inner demons after the loss of her son. 

We had begun hanging with a rowdy group of degenerate musician friends and partying harder than The Rolling Stones,” says Price, 37,. “The song was about how many of our talented friends were drinking and partying their talents away, but after a few years had passed, we realized it was just as much about us as our friends.” Back in 2018,after an unfortunate night of drinking, she ended up in Davidson County jail for three days. “When you lose a child you cope differently,” she said, praising Ivey with providing stability during that difficult time. “I think it’s amazing that our marriage lasted after that because the statistics are not in our favour. But he’s been there right beside me.”

With this new music video, Price recounts this exact night. The visuals show a “gritty depiction” of her facing her inner demons, crashing her car, going to jail and then beating the darkness that she had found herself in. I know so many people who struggle with substance abuse,” says Price. “I just lost a family member to alcohol. My second cousin Tammy locked herself into a hotel room and drank herself to death two months ago. In another life, that could have been me.”

Price says that originally she did not want to revisit the song “Hey Child” after having written it all the way back in 2012, but the encouragement from the producer for her album “That’s How Rumors Get Started”, and her band, helped her to do it.

“Funny enough, I initially didn’t want to re-record ‘Hey Child,’ But Sturgill was producing the record and he convinced me to. When I brought it in to play for the band they were all blown away by the song — that made me fall back in love with it.” With bringing the song back to life today, Price finds a whole new meaning to it as she reveals that she recently decided to stop drinking. 

“I just found it’s not serving me in any way. At first, it was just going to be a break, like when folks do ‘dry January’ — I’ve done that so many times,” says Price. “But after reading Holly Whitaker’s book Quit Like a Woman I’m seeing alcohol in a completely different light and may never drink again. Maybe that’s why I feel connected to this song again and wanted to make a video, to paint a picture of where I’ve been in my past lives. Sometimes you have to accept and forgive yourself for the mistakes and the failures you’ve made in your life in order to shed the layers and move on. 

On this road of recovery, there is more to smile about as she and Ivey were blessed with a beautiful baby girl, Ramona Lynn, in 2019. She joined Ezra’s twin brother, Judah, now 10.

JULIET QUICK – ” Circles ” Single Of The Week

Posted: January 28, 2021 in MUSIC
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Brooklyn based songwriter Juliet Quick has released “Circles” the first single off of her upcoming EP “Glass Years”.

The 5-minute song is one drenched in both sadness and perseverance. The song advocates for zoning out those who constantly try to give you advice on your life and career, noting that sometimes it’s what you need to do to keep your sanity. Juliet Quick builds worlds. Her songs are stark, sweet, weary, frank, immediate, vulnerably plainspoken, always sharply observed. On her forthcoming Glass Years EP, she carves out a space of her own by combining spare acoustics, playful synths, frenetic strings, and weeping lap steel. With these tools, the Hudson Valley-born, Brooklyn-living singer and songwriter reflects on climate terror, misogyny both subtle and unsubtle, self-interrogation, and holding on to hope.

The two verses that showcase this are right in the middle

Men tell me all kinds of things, I tend not to believe them
posturing over me, they say, they’re just using reason

Don’t listen to the crust punks, they have no coherent politics
you chase yourself around like that, you’ll wind up broke and nauseous again

Juliet’s singing has a similar style to Alexandra Savior. The instrumentation on “Circles” while minimal, letting her voice do the bulk of the work, perfectly compliment the song. The strings swirl around the track, coming in and out to accent Juliet’s lyrics. The drums only bang as the song swells to it’s peak and disappear almost as quickly as they came. Take a listen below and look out for the full EP coming out on March 5th.

All songs by Juliet Quick
The Band:
Nathan Kamal (violin, mandolin)
Philip Joy (drums, synth)
Josh Marre (lap steel guitar)

Released through Substitute Scene Records 2021, releases March 5th, 2021

CARLA GENEVE – ” Learn To Like It ” Album Of The Week

Posted: January 28, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Carla Geneve is a singer songwriter from Perth, Western Australia, Her new album will also include previous singles ‘Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover’ and ‘The Right Reasons’, both of which were released last year. In an additional statement, Geneve described the album as “very much a way for me to make sense of and explain my emotions to myself”. “These songs came at a time that I was coming to terms with the positives and negatives of medication, as well as the reality of having to gather the mental strength to push through hardship,” she explained.

The new track, ‘Dog Eared’, is a scorching rock number inspired by the enthusiasm of Geneve’s music students.

“I was driving home one night and I felt so excited and full of energy for music, and I guess life in general. I didn’t really know why but I realised it was because I had been in a room of teenagers playing music with the pure, raw emotion that most people grow out of as you enter adulthood,” Geneve said in a statement. “I had taken some of that recklessness and it felt incredibly nostalgic. I dictated the words to ‘Dog Eared’ into my phone. It took me a while to finish the music because I really wanted to get it moving a bit more than my other songs. Capture a bit of that violence that I mostly stay away from on this record.” “Dog Eared” is a crushing piece of rock that sits in perfect contrast to recent single, “The Right Reasons”.

Geneve crafted “Learn To Like It” over a couple of years in between prolific touring and a period that was marked by adolescence, heartache and coming to terms with mental illness. The 22-year old says writing the largely biographical record was a method of processing and finding strength through vulnerability, saying it was “very much a way for me to make sense of and explain my emotions to myself.”

“These songs came at a time that I was coming to terms with the positives and negatives of medication, as well as the reality of having to gather the mental strength to push through hardship.”

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Learn To Like It, my debut album, is out everywhere Fri April 23rd via Dot Dash/Remote Control Records

GILLIAN WELCH – ” The Lost Songs Boots Number 2… Vol 1 Vol 2 and Vol 3 “

Posted: January 26, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Working in tandem with her erstwhile musical collaborator David Rawlings, singer/songwriter Gillian Welch searched through her vault and uncovered a rich cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings that she then assembled into three volumes of archival offerings. Collectively titled The Lost Songs and delineated as Boots Vol. 1, 2 and 3, she shares 48 songs in total, thus allowing fans and followers an opportunity to bear witness to Welch’s creative sensibilities and the unreleased music she and Rawlings recorded in the fertile period between her critically-acclaimed albums Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey. An aural sketchbook of sorts, the three volumes reflect a certain creative consistency and Welch’s willingness to indulge her muse wherever it might lead.

Fans of Gillian Welch and her long time songwriting foil David Rawlings’s reimagining of early country and bluegrass are used to being patient. Until a month ago, the pair had only released five albums proper under her name, and three in his, since Welch’s 1996 debut, “Revival”. But after their studio, with all their old recordings, was almost destroyed by a tornado in March, they’ve changed tack. Hot on the heels of July’s covers album, “All the Good Times Are Past and Gone”, comes the follow-up to 2016’s first batch of archive recordings, The Official Revival Bootleg, with two more volumes.

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While most of the offerings are rendered in stripped-down settings, all reflect a propensity to tap traditional sources and pay heed to a strong roots regimen. It’s music that’s rendered with a genuine folk finesse and a sound of a vintage variety.  The charm is manifest in both the novelty and the nuance. Although they are demos, with little more in play than guitar and Welch’s voice, they sound fully realised. 

First Place Ribbon, about barefoot Kathy, “the kinda girl likes the dust between her toes”, rattles along with an irresistible momentum; the narrator of the brooding Shotgun Song fantasises about escaping the chain gang; Valley of Tears is as desolately beautiful as its name suggests. That Welch and Rawlings have sat on such inspired recordings for almost two decades makes you wonder what other hidden treasures might be forthcoming.

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Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. This remarkable 48 song collection, spread over three volumes, was recorded between the making of Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey. It is an intimate glimpse at the artist’s sketchbook, containing some lifelong themes as well as some flights of fancy.

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This album is all about the honed to a sharp fine edge, of Gillian Welch Goodness- excellent production, and just so damn real and fine.

JOHANNA SAMUELS – ” High Tide for One “

Posted: January 23, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Johanna Samuels broadens the definition of pop music. The melodically and lyrically focused singer-songwriter stands on the shoulders of the great musicians of the 1960’s and 70’s she manages to create a sound and sense of musical place that is completely her own. Although Johanna Samuels has been sharing her music with the world since back in 2016, there’s a certain buzz around her of late that suggests an artist very much on the up. Back in October, Johanna shared a new single, “High Tide for One”, the first offering from her upcoming Sam Evian-produced album, due this Spring as a co-release between up-and-coming UK label, Basin Rock and Mama Bird Recording Co. The album was recorded in the Castskill Mountains alongside a small band of musicians, and features guest vocals from a stunning array of female singers, including the likes of A.O. Gerber, Lomelda and Courtney Marie Andrews.

Born in New York, and named after a Bob Dylan song, Johanna’s path to music was never really in doubt. After re-locating to Los Angeles, Johanna has spent the best part of a decade honing her song writing craft and learning to find a way to balance her inherent way with a melody while crucially finding plenty to say. Thankfully, High Tide for One was a particularly exciting example of Johanna achieving exactly that. The track was written in response to watching Dr. Blasey Ford’s testimony against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as Johanna recalls, “it felt a bit hopeless. I felt exhausted, and for a while, I didn’t have the strength to explain it or try to talk it through with anyone who wasn’t working to change it”. These feelings are set to a perhaps contrastingly lush backing, as warm Rhodes-piano and a gorgeous-meander of slide-guitar, the breeziness of the musical backing set against the steely quality of the vocal, as she sings, “last night I saw that man on TV, his tears tasted like silver bullets and supremacy“. It may only be a single track, yet there was plenty within it to suggest Johanna Samuels might just be one of 2021’s most important musical voices.

Released October 27th, 2020
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LIZZIE REID – ” Been Thinking About You “

Posted: January 23, 2021 in MUSIC
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An emerging new talent on the Glasgow music-scene, Lizzie Reid has previously caught the ear of the likes of 6Music, The Line Of Best Fit and The Great Escape festival. Signed to Seven Four Seven Six, home to the likes of Matt Maltese and Matilda Mann, Lizzie has recently announced the release of her debut EP, “Cubicle”, which will arrive next month.

Ahead of the EP’s release, Lizzie has already shared a number of tracks from “Cubicle” from the pensive introspection of “Always Lovely” to the beautiful break-up anthem, “Seamless”, with its gorgeous string-led crescendos. Last week Lizzie shared the latest offering, “Been Thinking About You”, adding a certain jazzy-flourish to her acoustic led compositions as she sings a tale of admiration for a friend who, “was such a support for me at a time I wasn’t feeling my best”.

Perhaps the most exciting thing about Lizzie Reid’s music is the progress it is already showing; with every new song, she seems to take us, as listeners, to somewhere different, the sign of an artist in charge of her own vision, and increasingly sounding like someone for whom acclaim is an inevitability.

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Released on: 13th January 2021 Author: Elizabeth Reid-Boulter

SARAH JAROSZ – ” World On The Ground ” Best Albums Of 2020

Posted: January 19, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“World on the Ground” is the fifth studio album by American singer–songwriter and I’m with Her member Sarah Jarosz. Produced by John Leventhal , the album was released on June 5th, 2020. The fourth track on the album, “Johnny,” a song with chord progressions reminiscent of the 1990 Nirvana song, “ Polly ,” 

“Johnny’s on the back porch drinking red wine/He knows that it could be the very last time/He raises the glass up to his lips and wonders.” This is the opening line to “Johnny,” the lead single from Sarah Jarosz’ fifth studio album “World on the Ground”. Jarosz didn’t do a great deal of press for the album – for obvious reasons, of course – and so there isn’t a great deal of information as to whether the story told in the song is real.

The titular Johnny is staring down the barrel as he prepares to go in for open heart surgery – one fast move and he’s gone. It’s a moment filled with drama and suspense, and its unresolved nature only drives the intrigue even further. Did Johnny make it? Where is Johnny now? Is he even real to begin with?

Who cares if Johnny is real? “Johnny” is no less authentic because of it. It’s a striking, harmonious and emotive slice of Americana. Its lines trace around a bright octave mandolin, Levon Helm-esque drumming and rustic close harmonies that tie well into Jarosz’s bluegrass background. It’s certainly poppier than her earliest alt-country work, but that too doesn’t make it any less authentic. Any less real. From the second its tape-loop drone guides you in to the second its strummed mandolin lick guides you out, everything in “Johnny” is as real as it gets.

If you have kept an eye on the career of Sarah Jarosz, you’ll be fully aware that she doesn’t limit the influences in her musical universe to just folk and bluegrass. From funky rootsy Prince covers to nailing a definitive version of a Tom Waits classic, it has been clear that she trusts her muse instinctively and puts her music and art in the driving seat. Very much like the character Eve sketched out in the opening tune on this album, Sarah keeps “following the sound”. It is certainly an opening number that sets its table neatly, preparing for the delights that are about to unfold for the listener. A small-town girl with a sense of wonder opens her heart and mind to the possibilities over the other side of the wilderness.

As the music swoons and soothes, Eve locks in her resolve and thickens her skin to protect against the world that will try to muddy her insides and corrupt the good inside. This theme is touched upon again on the second tune, the title track that is illustrated on the minimal yet arresting cover art depicting a brace of birds. “When the world on the ground is going to swallow you down, sometimes you’ve got to pay it no mind”.

Her stories are carved like a craftsman’s antique furniture, with an attention to detail and capacity for nuance lending these sketches a depth and realism that ensures repeated listening is a rewarding experience. And Sarah is far from simplistic in weaving these threads of escape and adventure, she knows that reality or tragedy is more than likely going to bite at some stage. Like the character on track three, who ends up back in her hometown with dreams that have been frazzled away. That song, ‘Hometown’, has the timbre of a classic Springsteen ballad, “on the verge of a breakdown, back in her hometown, never thought she’d settle down in a place like this”. There’s a theme of escape from the suburban backwaters, chasing dreams that have a habit of meeting a head-on collision with the harsher side of the real world, a solid touchstone for the Boss. 

Something in the creation and execution of these songs seems to state that this a musical talent on an upward trajectory. The songs are memorable, they are instant, they have thoughtful details and they overflow with drama, emotion and heart. Most of all they are little earworms and you will want to play them loud and singalong. It is that kind of album, stick it on while you’re cooking the dinner or sit down and listen properly. It works either way, Sarah Jarosz is pulling off that age-old musical trick here of being very, very good. I am going to be following her from here on in with high expectations.

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SARAH MARY CHADWICK – ” Full Mood “

Posted: January 15, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Prolific New Zealand-born, Melbourne based singer-songwriter Sarah Mary Chadwick is releasing “Me and Ennui Are Friends Baby” on February 5th via Ba Da Bing Records, and the latest single is “Full Mood,” which Sarah says “is about a Valentine’s Day date I went on. The owner of the bar we were at tried to get us both to fuck her, but she wouldn’t let me be in charge so we didn’t. I remember afterwards we were walking down the road and it was streetlights and still at 3am and everything felt great and shining and I remember thinking that I wish my dad could’ve done this, got drunk and kicked around the city at night when it’s all sparkly, holding onto someone who lights you up, not been stuck in silent dark rural New Zealand, watching other people’s lives on TV, drinking half glasses of box wine while his frowning wife ironed.”

“Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby” is the latest full-length from New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, Sarah Mary Chadwick, whose brutally honest song writing has cast her contrary to the gentleness of most current music. Comprised entirely of minimal solo piano arrangements, the album is despondently clear-eyed and smirkingly self-deprecating, completing a trilogy of records that started with The Queen Who Stole The Sky recorded on Melbourne Town Hall’s grand organ, and her only outing to date featuring a full band, Please Daddy. Each record has followed Chadwick’s internal processing after a traumatic event, with Chadwick’s zeal for psychoanalysis front and centre. On Ennui, Chadwick presents an exacting intensity with her choice to pare back to piano and vocals. It’s in this stark setting that she focuses on the attempt she made on her life in 2019.

Directed by Tristan Scott-Behrends

Starring Daniel Villarreal & Sarah Mary Chadwick “Only Trumpets” Clip featuring Daniel Crook & Xavier Jimenez March ‘Full Mood’ is the third single from forthcoming album ‘Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby’, out February 5th 2021 through Rice Is Nice Records & Ba Da Bing.

Find Sarah Mary Chadwick on Bandcamp – https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com

CHLOE GLOVER – ” Dark Matter ” EP

Posted: January 13, 2021 in MUSIC
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Folk-punk songwriter Chloë Glover didn’t get much chance to tour her excellent debut EP ‘Dark Matter’, as its release in March last year unfortunately coincided with…well, everything going to shit. The upside to this is that we still have plenty to look forward to from the Bournemouth native, whose live performances are every bit as brilliant as her recorded output.  This EP is absolutely brilliant. Four songs passionately delivered. 

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Chloe Glover debut EP, ‘Dark Matter’, out March 20th, 2020.

Vocals, guitars- Chloe Glover
Drums- Matty Blake
Guitars, bass, electric guitars- Steve Millar

The WEATHER STATION – ” Atlantic “

Posted: January 13, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Weather Station (the project of Toronto-based singer/songwriter Tamara Linderman) is releasing a new album, “Ignorance”, on February 5th via Fat Possum Records. This week she shared another song from it, “Atlantic,” via a self-directed video for the track. 

Linderman had this to say about the song in a press release: “Trying to capture something of the slipping feeling I think we all feel, the feeling of dread, even in beautiful moments, even when you’re a little drunk on a sea cliff watching the sun go down while seabirds fly around you; that slipping feeling is still there, that feeling of dread, of knowing that everything you see is in peril. I feel like I spend half my life working on trying to stay positive. My whole generation does. But if you spend any time at all reading about the climate situation circa now, positivity and lightness are not fully available to you anymore; you have to find new ways to exist and to see, even just to watch the sunset. I tried to make the band just go crazy on this one, and they did. This is one where the music really makes me see the place in my mind; the flute and the guitar chasing each other, wheeling around like birds, the drums cliff like in their straightness; I love the band on this one.”

“Ignorance” includes “Robber,” a new song The Weather Station shared in October via a self-directed video for it in her directorial debut. “Robber,” an atmospheric horn- and string-backed track, When the album was announced in November, Linderman shared its second single, “Tried to Tell You,” via another self-directed video for the track. Ignorance is the follow-up to The Weather Station’s acclaimed self-titled and self-produced fourth album, released in 2017 by Paradise of Bachelors.

In a previous press release, Linderman said the album was built on rhythm. “I saw how the less emotion there was in the rhythm, the more room there was for emotion in the rest of the music, the more freedom I had vocally,” she says. Linderman, who plays guitar and piano on the album, was aided in this cause by drummer Kieran Adams (DIANA), bassist Ben Whiteley, percussionist Philippe Melanson (Bernice), saxophonist Brodie West (The Ex), flutist Ryan Driver (Eric Chenaux), keyboardist Johnny Spence (Tegan and Sara), and guitarist Christine Bougie (Bahamas). Linderman co-produced Ignorance with Marcus Paquin, who also mixed the album. 

“Atlantic” from The Weather Station’s new album ‘Ignorance’ out February 5th, 2021

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