Sound Cloud Sunday – November 15, 2020
Sound Cloud Sunday November 15, 2020
One week before Easter did you still think you were going to be in the same place you were one week before Thanksgiving? Yet, here we are still listening to an amazing treasure trove of new music while every music venue remains shuttered here in LA. Hope you enjoy this weeks’ crop of great new indie music and have a great turkey day! Click on the link below to hear the show in complete:
Cody Canada – Wonder If The World Can Wait That Long
Hometown: Pampa, TX
Album: New single on “The Next Waltz”
Review Snippet: Lead singer of The Departed and Cross Canadian Ragweed.
Website: https://thedepartedmusic.com/
Reed Turchi feat. Heather Moulder – I’ve Chosen Love
Hometown: Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina
Album: Single released October 30 on Kudzu Universal.
Review Snippet: “Flame-on Psychedelic Future Blues”
Website: https://www.reedturchi.com/
Native Harrow – Smoke Burns
Hometown: Pennsylvania
Album: From the album “Close” released June 20 on Loose Records.
Review Snippet: Laurel Canyon folk-rock with shades of Joni Mitchell.
Website: https://www.nativeharrow.com/
Jonathan Wilson – The Woods Are Greener (feat. Mark O’Connor)
Hometown: Laurel Canyon
Album: From the deluxe version of “Dixie Blur” released last Friday via his website and on Bella Union.
Review Snippet: Through the lens of social distancing and quarantines, Jonathan Wilson’s new album, Dixie Blur, released March 6th, seems made for this moment. It’s a bittersweet, nostalgic record that recalls both a time and a place that’s impossible to revisit. For Wilson specifically, that’s his native Thomasville, North Carolina, but the message is universal: You can’t go home again.
Website: https://www.songsofjonathanwilson.com/
Shawn James – Through The Valley
Hometown: Nashville via Chicago
Album: From the album “The Guardian Collection” released October 23 on Parts + Labor Record.
Review Snippet:
Website: https://www.shawnjamesmusic.com/
Becky Buller – The Ride
Hometown: Manchester, TN via St. James, MN
Album: From the album “Distance And Time” released October 1 on Dark Shadow Records.
Review Snippet:
If she weren’t so dang good at singing and playing fiddle, Becky Buller might make a fine novelist. The vivid characters that populate her songs have a life far past the last chord, experiencing heartbreak and hope, sweetness and sin, the mundane and the divine.
Distance and Time, the fifth album from this award-winning bluegrasser, imparts the lessons those characters learn as they travel through the world. In “Don’t Look Back,” a thrift-store find inspires a shift in focus from past to present, and on “Tell the Truth (Shame the Devil),” she enlists The Fairfield Four to drive the gospel message home. Her cover of Christian rock band NEEDTOBREATHE’s “More Heart, Less Attack” puts a driving acoustic spin on some pointed advice for these divided times.
Website: https://beckybuller.com/
Chamomile and Whiskey – Dead Bird
Hometown: Nelson County, VA
Album: From the album “Red Dirt Clay” released October 30 on New West.
Review Snippet: Red Clay Heart is nine selections that present the next chapter for Chamomile and Whisky. Produced by Ken Coomer (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo), Red Clay Heart opens with the album’s first single, “Way Back.” Gunter lays down a rollicking backbeat with a steady bass line by Mahon. The harmonized guitars add energy as the rich country twanged vocals of Kerl deliver an anthem of Americana rebellion.
Website: https://www.chamomileandwhiskey.com/
Elaine Davidson – Lookout Mountain
Hometown: Cumbria, UK
Album: From the album “Can’t Tell The River” self-released in 2015.
Review Snippet: Whilst Davidson and Huart have made the most of the availability of their Laurel Canyon studio and experienced session musicians, it is the quality of the songs which stands out. More harmonies to reinforce the vocals may have been welcome, but this is a minor quibble set against a set of songs which vary in tempo and mood, but which you feel Davidson and her band believe in wholeheartedly. A very accomplished album.
Website: https://www.elainedavidson.com/
The Wild Feathers – Blue
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Album: From the album “Medium Rarities” released September 14 on Whoa Dude Records.
Review Snippet: Nashville’s The Wild Feathers embrace their country-tinged roots without losing their flair for rocking rhythms and desert-swept ambiance. The ten-tracked new album finds the four-piece outfit right in their sweet spot–delivering a hodgepodge grabbag highly-influenced by the timeless music of the ’60s and ’70s as well as their adventures out on the road as a touring band.
Website: https://www.thewildfeathers.com/
Victoria Bailey – Hungry Heart
Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA
Album: From an e.p. of covers on Rock Ridge Music
Review Snippet: Grounding her timeless country music palette is her crystalline voice; an inviting warm tone with the occasional flutter that transports you back in time to a classic honky tonk where they’re playing the aforementioned Cline, Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton on rotation — all of whom she has carried from the dive bar to the main stage. Bailey brings that same spirit to the 21st century through relatably raw, non-sugarcoated songwriting that may seem unexpected from most contemporary female musicians in the country realm. She shines a relevant light on some of the shadier corners of the genre not typically addressed, such as the hypocrisy that can be found in the outlaw country mindset, all while evoking a fiery, no-holds-barred lyrical approach in the vein of Margo Price.
Website: https://www.rockridgemusic.com/victoria-bailey-mgmt
The Well Pennies – Zombie/Roar
Hometown: Des Moines, IA via Northborough, MA
Album: From the album “Covers” released October 30 on Golden Bear Records.
Review Snippet: “Changing the production or even the melody of a popular song can suddenly make you hear and understand a lyric differently. Beautiful and important ideas can sometimes go unnoticed because of how iconic a song is. Our goal, with any cover, is to make the listener hear the lyrics again for the first time”
Website: http://www.thewellpennies.com/
Bella White – Do You Think About Me At All
Hometown: Calgary, Canada
Album: From the self-released album “Just Like Leaving” released September 25.
Review Snippet: Rolling Stone says “sublime Appalachian heartache”.
Website: https://bellawhitemusic.com/
Steve O’Connor – Oh So Sweet
Hometown: Liverpool, England, UK
Album: From the album “The Messenger” self-released in September.
Review Snippet:
Website: https://www.steveoconnor.co.uk/
Darrell William Herbert – If You Still Believe
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Album: Lead single from his debut album “An Unwelcome Moment of Clarity” released in October on Five String Recordings. From the Toadies.
Review Snippet: REM meets the Cure in a Texas Roadhouse.
Website: https://darrelwilliamherbert.com
Erick Beau – Coming Home
Hometown: Nova Scotia, Canada
Album: From the album “What It Takes” available May 2021
Review Snippet: “Coming Home” was inspired when I was stranded away from home for 8 weeks and how I was longing to get back home. It made me think about backpackers, students and people in the Armed Forces, how they can’t wait to get back home. — Erick Beau
Website: https://erickbeau.com/
