Bob Dylan is everything and more. He is the ground we stand on and the air we breathe. Without him, nothing.
Every now and then Dylan release bootlegs filled with alternative takes, unreleased stuff, live recordings – a gift that keeps on giving.
A humble thanks to our hero and check out Most Of The Time below. This is very far from the take that landed on the Daniel Lanois-produced album Oh Mercy back in 89. It’s from Tell Tale Signs (2008, bootleg 8) – stripped down and amazing. Breaks us down every single time.
• Dig that moving sound? That Mellencamp or LeMarc stuff where a song simply keeps driving and keeps growing and keeps pounding and don´t ever stop or even come up for air. It’s a thing of vast beauty.
Check out Josh Ritter and his song Where The Night Goes from new album Sermon On The Rocks (release Oct 16).
• We got a letter from amazing band Sunshine & The Blue Moon.
”I think it’s safe to say we’re a nostalgic bunch. We get our music on vinyl or tape, we take our photos and shoot home videos on film, we drive around in my big old boat of a car, anything that brings us a little farther away from the pervasive technologies that dog all of our daily lives.”
Well that pretty much sums things up. We love this band. The song Lucy is beautiful as an autumn harvest in summer time. It’s a thing of truth, love and – nostalgia. Debut-LP out this Fall, we can´t wait.
• Our old pal Daniel Pearson is back with a great new album. Alone, Together was released August 21 and is the third album from the English folk-americana-man.
It’s nine songs filled with raw, talented song-writing. It’s a Damien Rice-kind of heartfelt vibe and something to hold dear when darkness rolls in. We truly love the guy, check out his sweet song I Still Believe down below.
• Benjamin Booker got his own raw blend of garageblues going on. The New Orleans based rocker released an awesome, self-titled debut album a year ago and will be one of the highlights of this years Stay Out West in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mr Booker gigs new stage Honduras, Bananpiren at 01.25 Friday night. It will be messy. It will be intense. It will be hair-raising, down-strapping, high-flying rock n rola. See ya’ll there, readers!
• A few days to go… On Friday, the Way Out West experience gets a high ride thru the everlasting Mr Sturgill Simpson.
The outlaw country man, the new Waylon, the Americanadude with the hard working voice hits Linnéstage at Slottsskogen with rolling thunder. We´ll be way upfront
The time, a fuck-off booking at 13.00, will only make Sturgill angrily better. He’ll prove them all wrong. Don’t miss this one!
• Meet Barrence Whitfield & the Savages. This is classy mayhem garage rock with raw vocals, thick and nasty guitar tones, and a preternaturally locked-in rhythm section.
The band release Under the Savage Sky in August, a down and dirty soulful punk record, via Bloodshot Records – filled with compact, three minute-or-less blasts.
For starters? Try a piece of Incarceration Casserole…
• This album will sneak up on you like Robert DeNiro with a bat. It’s nine songs complete. It’s Fleetwood, Springsteen, Mellencamp, Eagles; 70’s essentials.
Not many bands make the effort of an album anymore. It’s a couple of songs and that’s it. Dawes bites the head of that bullet. Their new album is a hard working LP wrapped up and intwined. We utterly adore it.
K7 saw Dawes backing Conor Oberst last summer at Way Out West in the green city woods of Gothenburg, Sweden. On stage they first looked a bit pale, then bursted into life and rallied their own songs – a tight unit for sure. The backbone of the band are brothers – Taylor Goldsmith (guitar & vocals) and Griffin Goldsmith (drums). They don´t miss a beat.
June 2nd Dawes fourth studio album, All Your Favorite Bands, was released via Hub Records. You’ll see this one high up on every EOY-list worth mentioning come December.
Til then…let’s hope your brother’s El Camino runs forever…
Straight outta Birmingham, Alabama, meet the … Banditos and the intense, powerful, violent voice of Mary Beth Richardson. Goddammit.
Their self-titled debut full-length album is out this spring and layered with as much grime as it is with pinpoint songwriting and feverish technical savvy. Each song wafts new dynamics into a streamlined stylistic roots, punk, and rock ‘n’ roll jet stream.
As a Friday Special: Check out Banditos perform I Put A Spell On You live in Nashville, Tennessee. If this don’t get you moving, don’t get you emotionally addicted to the soul of great music – what will?
