• Check out great Texas country band Jason Boland & the Stragglers. This is red-dirt music! They got the steel guitar in front, the fiddle and mandolin in the back and some great songwriting all around.
Dig the song Dark & Dirty Mile from the 2013-album with the same name, produced by Shooter Jennings. It’s for real. And if you by any chance head out to Little Rock, Arkansas this Friday nite, they got a show going on.
• Katie Bulley from Hamilton, Ontario, is a raw talented singer/songwriter that gets into your heart at the first listen. It´s rough folk music gone haywire.
Katie has just wrapped up recording her first full-length album Sun Wolf at renowned Sun Studio in Memphis, TN. Available May 30th, 2014.
Try her two minute warning Up & In down below. The video works as homage to Bob Dylan, Debbie Harry, Ike & Tina, New York Dolls, enjoy!
In 2008 this band released the meanest EP of that year. ”Bootleg” had that raw, unafraid sound of a breaking band from L.A. The album did not really live up to my expectations, although a fantastic album all the same. But the songs that led up to it all. Those first tunes still has me dancing like a maniac.
So crank that dial up the maximum, break open that bottle and kick off those sticky shoes. Funeral Party makes this friday too easy!
Roo & The Howl takes a beautiful dig at the classic Son-of-a Preacher Man at a Colorado bon-fire. Making Dusty Springfield proud!
Roo & The Howl is Bekah Wagner – wonderful talented songstress with the 2014 debut album Me/We out in record stores as we speak.
This is music worth waiting for. Bittersweet symphonies making the world go round. Tag along for the dark skies, and enjoy the bright ride.
This summer, the town of Gothenburg is once again blessed with the greatest festival we have ever seen. Way Out West will make this city glow in august.
One of the great acts that will give the festival its golden shimmer is Nicole Sabouné, who with her debut album ”Must Exist” has Kentuckyseven on our knees. The music sounds like it is meant to be played on stage in front of screaming music lovers. We will certainly be there.
Listen to this marvelous piece and close your eyes and picture yourself in front of the stage… at Stay Out West, in August.
Photo: Todd Roeth
• Our old buddy Langhorne Slim is still racing the streets of America, spreading his gospel. Right now he´s playing a two-week-tour with Deer Tick in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Check out the ever beautiful, the itchy and scratchy, the nervous bible of Song for Sid – and keep rollin’.
Photo: Lauren Parker
• Check out Americana-man Matt Woods, a southern rocker with the folky country vibe in his back pocket. His strong voice makes strong heartland songs even stronger.
Woods has been a figure in the East Tennessee music scene for the past ten years and has performed in several bands as well as working as a solo artist.
Don’t miss his album With Love From Brushy Mountain, released May 13th. The beautiful tune Deadman’s Blues is our Tuesday treat, enjoy!
The duo Brother North is Freyr Flodgren and Lucas Enquist. The town of Umeå, in the very north of Sweden, has raised these great musicians. The talented and very multifaceted voices and the great harmonies appeal to my cold Swedish sense. An escape into the warmth of music. Listen and see for yourself…
The self titled debut album was released this week. One of my favorite songs ”Pool of Her” beautiful stuff, just beautiful… And the Icelandic song Krummi… Great stuff. This is something else…
The best Kentuckyseven-album of 2013 came from Jason Isbell, his Southeastern knocked us down and out.
Wonder why? Give this live take of Cover Me Up a minute of your life. It’s a chilling experience – very emotional.
