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The Essential Doc Watson includes 26 tracks of Watson in his most traditional, folksy mode, with his stunning flat-picking guitar technique and warm, unadorned singing in fine form. The album’s first half focuses on studio sessions — some solo, some with accompaniment — while the second half is taken from Watson’s mid-’60s Newport Folk Festival appearances.
The performances throughout are top-notch. Watson’s flawlessly fluid guitar work is a wonder (most notably on instrumentals like “Beaumont Rag”), and he sounds as at ease singing a cappella (“Down in the Valley to Pray”) as he does backed by additional musicians (“The Train That Carried My Girl from Town”). The program includes traditional songs (“Tom Dooley” and “Little Omie Wise”), as well as tunes by Jimmy Rodgers (“I Was a Stranger”) and Dock Boggs (“Country Blues”), with Watson bringing each song to life with his incisive, sincere renditions. As a one-stop, economical introduction to this folk legend, The Essential Doc Watson is hard to beat.
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The brainchild of Matthew Logan Vasquez (Delta Spirit), Glorietta was born out of a desire to collaborate with friends that Vasquez has collected over the last ten years. Those friends; Noah Gundersen, Kelsey Wilson (Wild Child), David Ramirez, Grammy award winner Adrian Quesada (Brownout, Black Pumas), and Jason Robert Blum came together over the course of nine-day recording session in a rented house in Glorieta, NM – just outside of Santa Fe. “We chose Santa Fe because it was isolated enough to where it would feel like we were at camp” said Vasquez, “the only requirements were that the house had vaulted ceilings and a Jacuzzi.” The players were all connected in one-way or another, some of them old friends, some of them meeting for the first time when they arrived. The days were long with the tape running constantly as the players brought ideas for songs in various stages of completion to their new family of collaborators. Mid way through the sessions the group was joined by a guest appearance from Nathaniel Rateliff who drove straight through the night to join the party. The result is a their self-titled debut record; a beautiful mix of voices from six band leaders that fit perfectly together like a low-fidelity puzzle. Their self-titled album will be available everywhere in the summer of 2018.
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“Iowa suggests such names as Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey, and Pieta Brown among others but now singer-songwriter, artist and author, Chad Elliott can join their esteemed company with Rest Heavy. … This album just oozes soul, truth, and seems rather timeless as it could have been recorded almost any time in the last fifty-sixty years.” – Jim Hynes, Elmore Magazine
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Tracklist:
01. Dialogue (2:20)
02. Earth to Echo (3:59)
03. Sleepy Planet (3:17)
04. Waves (3:54)
05. Inside the Fence (2:49)
06. Colds Calling (3:42)
07. the Trouble with Sleep is… (4:15)
08. Interruption (3:42)
09. Out of Focus (2:45)
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CD 1:
01. The Girls In Paris (With Suzi Jane Hokum)
02. My Baby Cried All Night Long
03. My Autumn’s Done Come
04. Summer Wine. (With Suzi Jane Hokum)
05. I Move Around
06. Your Sweet Love
07. Sand (With Suzi Jane Hokum)
08. Dark In My Heart
09. After Six
10. I Am A Part
11. Bugles In The Afternoon
12. Not The Lovin’ Kind
13. These Boots Are Made For Walkin’
14. José
15. The Old Man And His Guitar
16. So Long, Babe
17. For One Moment
18. Home (I’m Home)
19. The Nights
20. Suzi Jane Is Back In Town (With Suzi Jane Hokum)
21. In Our Time
22. When A Fool Loves A Fool
CD 2:
01. Shades
02. This Town
03. Child
04. Stone Cold Blues
05. Little War
06. Them Girls
07. Fort Worth
08. Hands
09. Mannford, Oklahoma
10. Summer Nights
11. Muchacho (Instrumental)
12. Batman (Instrumental)
13. Frenesi (Instrumental)
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Tracks:
01. Roll Up! Roll Up!
02. The Superlative Spiel
03. The Miraculous Elixir
04. All Part Of The Show
05. Poor Sweet Eliza
06. The Pertinent Prediction
07. The Diabolical Doctor
08. Something Sinister
09. Behold! The Mesmereyes
10. What’s Your Poison?
11. The Old Switcheroony
12. Death Comes Calling
13. A Twist In The Tale
14. The Nefarious Show
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Zoe Speaks consists of Kentuckians Mitch Barrett, Carla Gover, and Owen Reynolds, (and for larger shows, fiddler/vocalist Zoey Barrett and multi-instrumentalist Arlo Barnette) who draw on their deep roots in the region to put their own spin on everything from traditional ballads to finely-crafted originals. A smooth, mellow instrumental mix lays the background for the close vocal harmonies that are a defining feature of their sound. A veritable songwriting powerhouse, their song contest wins include the Telluride Troubador Contest, Merlefest’s Chris Austin Contest, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, and Kerrville New Folk, among others. A staple on the Kentucky music scene for over a decade with three successful CDs under their belt, they are back together and set to release a new album this summer.
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One listen to the brand new album, “This Side or The Other,” and you’ll know David Olney is a man familiar with the wandering life and yearning heart of a poet. After more than 30 years in music, he’s had as many incarnations as you can imagine. His resume has expanded to include acting, poetry and a popular weekly streamcast. All of this adds to Olney’s strength as a songwriter’s songwriter, and one of Nashville’s founding fathers of Americana music.
While “This Side or The Other” is not a concept album, there are some recurring themes. The frequent reference to walls in these songs – walls being built and tumbling down – will suggest that while Olney has encountered more than his own share of walls, he is still trying his best to understand them.
“I wanted to explore the idea of walls,” says Olney, “What does a wall mean? What does it mean to be an immigrant who comes upon that wall as a wanderer, someone lost and alone?”
A wall in song can be the symbolic blockage from one place to another, or the flat finality of something coming to an end. In life as in art, Olney has scaled walls and torn them down. Yet, it’s not his own path he is particularly interested in exploring. David Olney has always been an observer, a student and writer of life for as long as he could hold a pen.
“I’m not comfortable writing about my own dirty laundry,” says Olney, “It’s better for me to look at characters and what they might be going through. When I write about the heavy stuff of life, it’s usually while I’m in someone else’s shoes.”
“This Side or The Other” contains solid musicianship as good as anything Nashville has to offer, and a stark, moody production by Juno Award-winning producer Steve Dawson.
“I look for a producer I can be relaxed around,” Olney says, “And I really wanted to work with Steve on this record. And while I knew he was a good producer, I had no idea what a terrific musician he was until I had him play guitar on ‘Death Will Not Divide Us.’ He did a beautiful job.”
The other musicians on “This Side or The Other” are Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Charlie McCoy, The McCrary Sisters, Fats Kaplin, Anne McCue and Olney’s regular band: Daniel Seymour on bass, Ward Stout on fiddle and Justin Amaral on drums.
The ten songs on “This Side or The Other” have been compiled from new and old writings, as well as a few collaborations with friends. Olney says he enjoys collaborating. “Annie McCue and John Hadley cowrote the title song, ‘This Side or The Other’ with me. It’s currently my favorite song.”
In “Stand Tall,” a song Olney’s been writing on-and-off for 25 years, he admits “I’m never going to change the way I am” – a sentiment that will gratify his longtime fans from all over the world, who like him just the way he is and only want more of the same.
“Breaking out of your comfort zone,” admits Olney, “can lead to certain encounters with banana peels, but that’s the chance you have to take to get songs and performances with a certain edge. I tend to stay on the margin of the page. I’m always looking for that ‘otherness,’ staying a bit off center.”
The sweetest song on the album, a plaintive love song called “Open Your Heart (And Let Me In),” is one part plea and one part indictment of a would-be lover who’s missing the chance for real love.
Olney’s last track is a rootsy cover of The Zombies’ 1965 hit, “She’s Not There.” It’s a delicious reminder that everything David Olney touches gets infused with a rare blend of dark chocolate. Despite it being the cover of a popular song, we hear words we’ve never heard in the same way before.
But David Olney knows words. He knows what they can do, and when paired with a bitter/sweet melody, they can take on a life of their own.
And maybe they can even tear down walls.
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