Sound Cloud Sunday – April 11, 2021
Sound Cloud Sunday April 11, 2021
Great fleet of new music hits the airwaves this week. Join us on an exploration of said musical nuggets including new groovy single from David Wax Museum. Click on the show and listen on-demand below:
Rhianna Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – Niwel Goes To Town
Hometown: She: Greensboro, NC He: Turin, Italy
Album: From the album “They’re Calling Me Home” released April 9 on Nonesuch
Website: https://www.rhiannongiddens.com/
Voodoo Room – In The Net
Hometown: UK
Album: From the album “Tension City Blues” released in November on Grooveyard.
Website: http://voodoo-room.com/
Son Of The Velvet Rat – Stardust
Hometown: Austria
Album: From the album “Solitary Company” out March 19 on Fluff & Gravy.
Review Snippet: “The slow burn noir-folk of this Austrian group feels like reading a great short story. Son of the Velvet Rat stokes the lurking passion that I have for voices with almost superhuman amounts of character. Altziebler’s voice takes lead, sounding like a cross between Dylan, Tom Waits, and a dry lakebed. This is a voice that takes on the cadence and the patient proselytizing of folks like Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Lambchop, Townes Van Zandt, Waits, and even Joni Mitchell, at times (as on “Blood Red Shoes
Website: https://www.sonofthevelvetrat.com/
Peter Case – When I Was A Cowboy
Hometown: Los Angeles
Album: From the album “The Midnight Broadcast” was released March 12 on Bandaloop.
Review Snippet: Roll down the windows in your car and fiddle with the radio knobs until you land on the tumbling, caressing, and swirling tunes of Peter Case and let them carry you through the night. With The Midnight Broadcast, Case carries us on a road trip through the rocky terrain of the blues and the wavering two-lane blacktop of folk, keeping us company as he re-creates the feelings of flying through the darkness in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, searching the radio dial for music and listening to loppy DJs, crackerjack preachers and car salesman, the news of the living and the dead, and songs about race horse, cowboys, and steamships.
Website: https://petercase.com/
David Nyro – Sanctuary
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Album: Demo singles? Not entirely sure
Review Snippet: Eclectic, melodic, old-school soulfulness and thoughtful, lived-in lyrics of substance. If you like adult rock and ballads that could go for a walk in the country or the mountains, you might find something to like here. “Comparisons to” range from the Band, Jackson Browne, Randy Newman, Don Henley, the Beatles, Oasis, Matthew Sweet and Bob Seger.
Website: https://davidnyro.com/
Jamie Linn Wilson – T Totally Tommy
Hometown: D’Hanas, TX
Album: New single released last week
Review Snippet:
Website: https://jamielinwilson.com/
Mike Jones Band – Snake Oil
Hometown: Leesburg, VA
Album: New single released on Toss-N-Turn Records.
Website: https://www.mikejonesband.com/
Visions of Albion – Daily Life
Hometown: Liverpool, UK
Album: From the EP “Visions of Albion” released on Klee Records
Review Snippet: “Shields stunning vocals and Ryan’s vocals and guitar are very good, but together they become greater than the sum of their parts…”
Website: https://www.facebook.com/VisionsofAlbion
The Winnie Blues – Little Pressures
Hometown:Nashville via Australia
Album: Single was released March 26 on Two Hands Records.
Website: https://thewinnieblues.com/
David Wax Museum – Juniper Jones
Hometown: Boston
Album: The album “Euphoric Ouroboric” is out this Friday April 16 – self-released, check that out on Patreon.com
Review Snippet: If it gets the airplay it deserves, this could be the unexpected hit of the summer. Boston-based David Wax and Suz Slezak mix brassy or accordion-backed Mexican themes and Americana with indie rock to create a fusion that is as cheerfully infectious as it is original. Wax has an relaxed vocal style and plays guitars and keyboards while Suz adds an Appalachian edge with her classy vocal harmonies, fiddle and autoharp, as well as the insistent rattle of the quijada de burro, the traditional donkey’s jawbone percussion, which helps to drive on the light, insistent rhythm patterns. Sturdy pop melodies meet slinky percussion and epic instrumental work from a three-piece brass section, and songs such as Harder Before It Gets Easier and Vivian are global crossover at its best.
Website: https://www.davidwaxmuseum.com/
Esther Rose – Mountaintop
Hometown: New Orleans, LA
Album: From the album “How Many Times” out March 26 on Father/Daughter Records.
Website: https://www.estherrose.net/
Bay Station – 103 Degrees
Hometown: Alameda, CA
Album: From the EP “Beyond The Safe And Sound” self-released April 9.
Review Snippet: Bay Station finds California -based songwriter/musicians Kwame Copeland and Deborah Crooks collaborating along with several musical compadres to create a diverse form of Americana music. Drawing on their literary and roots tendencies, their songs are imbued with aspects of Americana, blues, jazz, pop, rock and roll. They’ve released two full-length albums since forming in 2014, performing throughout California and beyond, and will release a third, Other Desert Cities, in 2018. Their music has been included in several episodes of the PBS show RoadTrip Nation, and given airplay on radio stations including The Americana Music Show, KALX, WDBX and KAOS.
Website: http://baystationband.com/
Nathan Kalish – Desire
Hometown: Nashville
Album: New single on Winter Wildfires Records.
Review Snippet: “Like Daniel Romano or Robert Ellis, he wields a complete working knowledge of what’s come before in country music, even if he prefers to operate slightly outside the norm. ”
Website: https://www.nathankalish.us/
The Accidentals – Night Train
Hometown: Nashville
Album: New single on Savage Kitten Records.
Review Snippet: Brandi Carlile meets the Avett Brothers.
Website: https://www.theaccidentalsmusic.com/
Andy Johnson – Pony Boy
Hometown: Georgia
Album: Debut single self-released.
Review Snippet: “500 Pesos to Oz” is a song about one of Johnson’s memories of a special day in Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico. “This song is dedicated to anyone that has felt cut off from their own special happy places,” he said. “If you can use your imagination, your ‘Casa Azul’ is only a song away!”
