Artist: Thåström | Album: Den morronen | Released: 2015 | Genre: Rock
Artist: Thåström | Album: Den morronen | Released: 2015 | Genre: Rock
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“Kings Of The Coop” features 16 sizzling, strutting tracks – lots of originals punctuated with a handful of familiar favourites.The Lincolns certainly know how to rock, but the magic comes with the melodies and the atmosphere that they manage to capture in their performances.
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California Dreaming is a collaborative studio album of covers by Australian singer-songwriters and musicians Rick Price and Jack Jones. The album sees Rick and Jack teaming together to re-imagine their favourite songs of the 1960s and 1970s California Sound era. The album was produced in Nashville by Sony executive Robert Digby and is released through Sony Music Australia. The eponymous first single, by The Mamas & the Papas, was released in August. Songs from the album include hits by Neil Young and the Eagles.
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Tracklist:
01. High Wire (3:15)
02. I Can’t Lose The Blues (5:02)
03. My Baby Says She’s Gonna Leave Me (4:34)
04. After Hours (4:36)
05. Blues For Roy (6:10)
06. Further On Up The Road (3:46)
07. A Nickle And A Nail (5:01)
08. Reelin’ And Rockin’ (1:55)
09. Beer Drinking Woman (4:16)
10. The Chokin’ Kind (4:03)
11. That’s What I’m Here For (3:50)
12. The Messiah Will Come Again (4:24)
13. Rockin’ Roy (2:29)
14. That’s What I’m Here For (Instrumental) (3:48)
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Alabama-raised Nashville-based singer-songwriter Johnny Hayes weaves soulful blues-rock vocals through a musical fabric of acoustic, folk and pop.
On If You Knew Her, Zara McFarlane reworked Junior Murvin and Lee “Scratch” Perry’s “Police & Thieves” and Duke Reid’s Nora Dean-fronted “Angie La La,” reggae classics that further exhibited the jazz vocalist’s genetic and artistic connections to Jamaica. For her more adventuresome follow-up and third album overall, Arise, McFarlane digs deeper into her Afro-Caribbean roots with much of the same crew from her prior sessions, led by drummer and producer Moses Boyd with the likes of saxophonist Binker Golding and pianist Peter Edwards. This time, McFarlane and company reconfigure “Peace Begins Within” into a driving, tightly controlled post-bop groove with the singer’s upper register deployed in the chorus to dazzling effect, as moving here as it is in the Dean original.
For the Congos’ “Fisherman,” accompanied primarily by only strings and piano, McFarlane proves that bass pressure isn’t required to provide weight. It’s somewhat ironic, then, that two of the album’s finest originals — burning perseverance anthems “Fussin’ and Fightin'” and “Freedom Chain” — are reggae to the core, translatable from an intimate hideout to a sound system. Other moments travel far afield from McFarlane’s prior sessions. Not one of them is disposable. “Silhouette” leads with almost four minutes of Shabaka Hutchings’ bass clarinet wisps, with McFarlane arriving toward the end to substantively honor her cultural lineage. “Allies or Enemies” is a quietly accosting fusion of scat singing, doo wop, and folk, while “Stoke the Fire” — the most illuminating evidence of the singer’s versatility — is an intricately layered soul-rock ballad of sorts. The program unfortunately doesn’t include McFarlane’s update of Max Roach and Oscar Brown, Jr.’s “All Africa,” the 10″ and digital release of which preceded the album by three months.
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Tracks:
01 – Workin’ For MCA
02 – I Ain’t The One
03 – Saturday Night Special
04 – The Needle And The Spoon
05 – That Smell
06 – The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe
07 – Things Goin’ On
08 – Swamp Music
09 – I Know A Little
10 – Gimme Three Steps
11 – They Call Me The Breeze
12 – What’s Your Name
13 – Comin’ Home
14 – Simple Man
15 – Sweet Home Alabama
16 – Band Intros (
17 – Free Bird
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Still in his mid-20s, Jack Rutter has already amassed a formidable reputation with Moore Moss Rutter and with the Seth Lakeman band and Jackie Oates band. With his first solo album, Jack could have used his connections with those groups and many others to pepper his debut with guest appearances from British folk’s finest. And, by doing so, attempt to draw in a crossover audience who love Seth, Jackie et al…
Instead, Jack has made a bold decision to eschew collaborations and the dynamic interplay that characterizes Moore Moss Rutter to produce a genuinely solo record. It’s just Jack’s rich, expressive voice, accompanying himself either acoustic guitar, bouzouki or duet concertina. Another decision was to record the songs live in the studio with no overdubs. The songs are almost all traditional, and more than half have a connection with Rutter’s native Yorkshire.
So, this is an album of restrictions, with parameters – a singular vision maintained from the first to the very last note. But these boundaries are not a cage, they offer Jack the opportunity to fly. And boy does he soar…
Recorded and produced by Joe Rusby, Hills is already gaining plaudits. ‘A truly captivating singer of traditional songs. Jack Rutter’s new record feels like one of the classic folk albums of the 70s,’ says Jon Boden. And he’s absolutely right, it has the confidence of an album like Nic Jones’ Penguin Eggs or Martin Carthy’s debut. But it doesn’t feel like an exercise in nostalgia or an attempt to revert back to a bygone ‘golden age’. In fact, Hills is a vital, enthralling record which I’m sure will creep into the speakers of anyone with a passion for folk, and hopefully the headphones of a new, broader audience too…
The album opens with the traditional Hey John Barleycorn which Jack learnt from The Wilsons. I’ve not heard the a cappella group’s version, but here Jack arranges the hymn to English beer for guitar and vocal. It’s a perfect opening for this self-assured album. Although recorded ‘live’, I challenge any listener to pick up a slip of the finger or unintentional crack of the voice across the 11 tracks. This is a virtuoso at work.
But it’s not an opportunity for Jack to show off, nor is it a scholarly exercise in reviving old traditional songs. It’s a welcoming album full of fascinating old stories and vignettes of life in very different times. And Jack chooses his accompaniment to fit the song: the old English hymn, Morning Trumpet – a song of longing for a better life away from this world of sin and sorrow – is given a suitably mournful duet concertina backing.
Meanwhile, I’ll Take My Dog And My Airgun Too – a simple tale of the life of a poacher and his dog – is stripped back to just Jack’s vocals. Appropriately too, as it feels like the old poacher is sat cosy in his cottage, a roaring fire and faithful dog by his side meditating in song on a life of simple pleasures.
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Before his untimely death in 2012, renowned American rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose began recording an ambitious passion project with bassist Ricky Phillips (Styx, Bad English) and drummer Eric Singer (Kiss, Alice Cooper). The idea was to record 10 songs with 10 different singers and call the album 10X10. Sadly, Montrose was unable to see the album through during his lifetime. Instead, Phillips made it his mission to finish the songs by enlisting a small army of Ronnie’s musician friends to record the vocals and the guitar solos for each song, completing the album in recent years.
Phillips says the songs represent some of Montrose’s best work. “His songs still have the fire and angst of a young rebel, but with some added wisdom and foresight voiced in his own unique language of ‘guitar-speak.’ On 10X10, we hear Ronnie at the top of his game, from the opening crunch guitar of ‘Heavy Traffic,’ all the way to the closing song, ‘I’m Not Lying,’ which was Ronnie’s tip of the hat to his friend Robin Trower.”
10×10 features inspired pairings, like Deep Purple singer Glenn Hughes with Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen (“Still Singin’ With The Band”) and singer Sammy Hagar with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather (“Color Blind”). Legendary blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa also showcases his guitar talents on the track “The Kingdom’s Come Undone” with Ricky Phillips on vocals. A few artists both sing and play, like Edgar Winter (“Love Is An Art”) and Tommy Shaw (“Strong Enough”).
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Tracklist:
1. Love Is A Long Road (4:52)
2. Into The Great Wide Open (4:29)
3. Listen To Her Heart (4:26)
4. I Won’t Back Down (5:06)
5. Free Fallin’ (5:56)
6. Psychotic Reaction (5:55)
7. Ben’s Boogie (4:08)
8. Don’t Come Around Here No More (9:15)
9. Something In The Air (3:59)
10. Mary Jane’s Last Dance (8:52)
11. King’s Highway (3:37)
12. A Face In The Crowd (4:50)
13. Ballad Of Easy Rider (3:40)
14. Take Out Some Insurance (5:55)
15. Thirteen Days (5:26)
16. Southern Accents (5:11)
17. Yer So Bad (3:33)
18. Driving Down To Georgia (6:35)
19. Lost Without You (6:56)
20. Refugee (4:42)
21. Runnin’ Down A Dream (5:13)
22. Learning To Fly (5:22)
23. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (4:02)
24. American Girl (5:09)
25. Alright For Now (2:17)
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CLASSIC ALABAMA BROADCAST RECORDING FROM 1995 – PRESENTED ACROSS 2 CDS By the beginning of the 1990s, with their MCA contract coming to an end, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were proving as popular as ever they were. 1991 s Into The Great Wide Open was received warmly by critics and fans alike, and their 1993 Greatest Hits album sold in excess of 10 million copies. Now signed to Warner Bros., the group – sans original drummer Stan Lynch – teamed up with producer Rick Rubin to record Wildflowers, released on 1st November 1994. The album sold over three million copies and produced the Top 20 single You Don t Know How It Feels . To support this latest release, the band embarked on an extensive tour of North America, playing over 90 dates that year. The recording featured on this two disc set is taken from their performance at The Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, AL on 6th October 1995, a show recorded for FM radio broadcast nationwide in exceptional audio quality. Containing hits from across their entire catalogue – including You Don t Know How It Feels , Free Fallin , Don t Come Around Here No More and American Girl – this CD is sure to become a must-have live album for Tom Petty fans everywhere.
The San Francisco Bay Area is a unique cultural space that has given birth to some of the most iconic countercultural American music. It is a place where identities can be fluid and hyphenated, where new voices emerge to speak to their times. Two very different Bay Area artists, Meklit Hadero and Zena Carlota, use their music to explore what it means to live on two sides of a hyphen: African-American, black-artist, Ethiopian-American, female-musician, to name a few. Produced by Lisa Bartfai
About the producer:
Lisa Bartfai is a freelance radio journalist, writer and translator based in Brunswick, ME. As a senior producer at award-winning Blunt Youth Radio, Lisa shares her love of radio with the next generation of noisemakers.