Sound Cloud Sunday – July 29, 2018 (Episode 23)

Sound Cloud Sunday July 29, 2018

While Laurel Canyon Radio music director is off checking out the Mulligan Brothers at Vine Rewind in Pittsburgh, we still had time to put together a great show featuring unsigned, should-be-signed and indie artists from around the globe – enjoy!

 

 

 

The Traveler – Nobody Makes It Out 

 

Hometown:  Appleton, WI

Album: From their debut album “Western Movies” out in May on Refuge Foundation for The Arts Records.

 

Review Snippet: A rootsy singer-songwriter collection that finds the three songwriters trading vocals on their off-kilter songs, at turns humorous and devastating

Website: https://www.travellertheband.com

 

 

 

Clay Parker and Jodi James – Down To The Garden 

 

Hometown:  Baton Rouge, LA

Album:  Their debut album “The Lonesomest Sound That Can Sound”  was released July 20.

Review Snippet:  “This is an album that will need to be listened to and not just played in the background. It has to marinate in your musical soul–It is for select tastes and for discriminating ears. It will make an impression…it will.

Next Time in LA:  A house show in Los Angeles on August 18.

 

Website:  https://cpjjmusic.com/

 

 

The Brothers Comatose – Cedarwood Pines

 

Hometown:  San Francisco, CA

Album: From the album “Ink, Dust & Luck released in June on Antifragile Records.

 

Review Snippet: The Brothers Comatose forge their own path with raucous West Coast renderings of traditional bluegrass, country and rock ‘n’ roll music. The five-piece string band is anything but a traditional acoustic outfit with their fierce musicianship and rowdy live shows reminiscent of stadium rock concerts.

Website: http://www.thebrotherscomatose.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Magpie Salute – Can You See

 

Hometown:  Atlanta, GA

Album: Their debut album High Water I is out on Eagle Rock Entertainment on August 10.  Rich Robinson and Marc Ford of the Black Crowes.

 

Review Snippet:  The Magpie Salute which brings together the reunited definitive Black Crowes guitar duo of Rich Robinson and Marc Ford, bassist Sven Pipien (also from the Crowes) along with lead singer John Hogg (Hookah Brown,…

Website: http://themagpiesalute.com/

 

 

Mipso – Moonlight

 

Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC
Album: “Edges Run” (their fourth album – out April 6 on Antifragile Music
Review Snippet: It takes all kinds, as they say, and all kinds can find something to like in Mipso. They pull from bluegrass, country, pop, old-time, jazz, and other influences to concoct a sound that’s all their own, and getting stronger with every album.

Website: https://www.mipsomusic.com/

 

 

 

Carolina Story – Gold

 

Hometown:   Nashville

Album:  From their debut album “Lay Your Head Down” out July 13 on Black River Americana Records

 

Next Time In LA:  August 21 at Hotel Utah in San Francisco, maybe some LA dates to follow.

Website:  http://www.carolinastory.com/

 

 

 

The Mulligan Brothers – Roseanne

 

Hometown:  Mobile, AL

Album:  Their third album “Songs for The Living And Otherwise”   is available on their website.

Review Snippet: The Mulligan Brothers – a locally based musical foursome – gently weave heartfelt tales of love and loss into a complex yet comforting quilt of bluegrass instrumentals, the combination of which will leave you nostalgic for something (or someone) that you can’t quite put your finger on. With a remarkable universality, the band’s self-titled debut album features songs that you could as easily imagine spilling from the mouth of a storied, laugh-lined old man as his teenage grandson grieving his first heartbreak. The Mulligan Brothers sing and play about where they’ve been in a way that makes us all realize we’ve been there, too.

Web Site: https://www.themulliganbrothers 

 

 

 

Rayland Baxter – Sandra Monica

 

Hometown:  Nashville, TN

Album:  From the album “Wide Awake” released July 13 on ATO Records.

 

Review Snippet: ll the ingredients are there—intelligently crafted storytelling lyrics and immediately memorable melodies, as well as a living, breathing studio sound and enough raucous rockers and hushed folk tunes to keep everyone satisfied. Baxter’s collection of likely sonic influences is bulletproof: the crisp pop-rock of The Kinks, the weary-soul guitar of Tom Petty and the cinematic heartbreak of early Ryan Adams.

 

Next Time in LA:  September 15 at the Morrocan Lounge

Website:  https://www.raylandbaxter.com/

 

 

 

Tyler Childers – Banded Clovis 

 

Hometown:   Lawrence County, Kentucky

Album:  From the album “Purgatory”  released last year on Hickman Hollar Records

 

Review Snippet:  In the tense “Banded Clovis,” a hardscrabble addict who shoots his friend over an arrowhead they find sifting through snow-hardened dirt on a Kentucky mountain, searching for treasure that might pay for their pills. “I was fiending so fierce, I was broke ass and busted,” Childers sings of the moment. Childers sets his eye for detail on a familiar form – the love song, the murder ballad – and pushes it into the present with specifics that are utterly plausible and seemingly unique.

Since he was 20, Childers has gained a reputation for his vivid music by touring incessantly from Ohio to Tennessee and onward throughout the South and the Midwest. He worked on his blend of bluegrass and hard country with his band, The Food Stamps, and sometimes performed with Sonora May, the lady whom he eventually wed, and whose grounding influence he celebrates throughout Purgatory.

 

 

Website:  https://tylerchildersmusic.com/

 

 

 

Henrietta Swan – Unfold

 

Hometown:  Nashville, TN

Album:  This is their first single.

 

Review Snippet: Her haunting lyrics and soulful voice.
Their swampy rhythms and hook filled melodies.

Website: http://swantunes.com/lady-gents-commence-recording-first-single-by-marc

 

 

Williamson Branch – Angeline

 

Hometown:  Nashville, TN

Album: Their second album “Fire” was released July 6 on Pinecastle Records.  .

 

Review Snippet: “What a wonderful family full of talent and energy! If you are looking for bluegrass or bluegrass gospel, look no more, Williamson Branch is your answer.

Website: https://williamsonbranch.com/

 

 

Ben De La Cour – Dixie Crystals

 

Hometown:  Nashville via Brooklyn and New Orleans

Album: “The High Cost of Living Strange”  was released in April on Flour Sack Cape Records.

 

Review Snippet: Eight tracks of his self-proclaimed “Americanoir” style – weaving complex, mysterious and sometimes shocking storylines with a unique blend of instrumental backing and the occasional glimpse of gallows humor. Along with his unique perspective towards songwriting and his lyrical attention to detail, de la Cour has a veracious studio ideology; live tracking, minimal overdubs, no headphones, one room, and just a couple of days. “I’m like a bargain basement Cowboy Jack Clement!” he jokes.

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This Wild Life – Westside

 

Hometown:

Album:  Their album “Petaluma” is out on Epitaph

 

Review Snippet: Featured on today’s OWAR is This Wild Life’s breezy summer-rific LP, Petaluma. Easily the duo’s most accessible and radio-friendly release yet (which is a good thing, by the way), Petalumais a bop (as the kids say) from start to finish. Providing infectious sing-a-long choruses, heartfelt lyrics and cheery instrumentation, Petaluma is the definition of a perfect summertime soundtrack.

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The Lay Awakes – Home Away From Home

 

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY via Ontario

Album: From their album “Home Away From Home” self-released in May.

 

Review Snippet:

Thankfully, we have music to show us the way: The Lay Awakes’ new single “Falling in Love” captures the feeling of starting to fall in love with your partner while beautifully explaining the confusion that comes with it.

Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering The Lay Awakes’ “Falling in Love,”  the latest single and music video off the band’s upcoming debut album Home Away From Home (independently out May 2018). The married duo of Anna Paddock and Patrick Anderson, Brooklyn’s The Lay Awakes quickly bonded over their love of music. Though living in New York, traces of their Canadian roots are evident in their beautiful songwriting.

Website:   https://www.thelayawakes.com

 

 

Ahi –Made It Home

 

Hometown: Brampton, ON

Album: From his debut album “In Our Time” out July 13.

Next Time in LA:  Hotel Cafe August 20

Review Snippet: I’m a songwriter-singer but if you ask different people they’ll say different things. Maybe I’m Alt-Folk, Indie Pop, Indie Soul, Adult Alternative, or even Americana (even though I’m from Canada). I guess my genre depends on who’s listening.

Website: https://ahimusic.com/