Body To Ground EP - Hollie Rogers (22/04/17)
- Artist: Hollie Rogers
- Release Date: 22nd April, 2017
- Genre: Singer-Songwriter
- Record Label: Jolly Roger
- Tracks: 5
- Website:
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A Face Like Mine - Peter Bradley Adams (20/04/17)
- Artist: Peter Bradley Adams
- Release Date: 20th April, 2017
- Genre: Contemporary Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
- Record Label: Peter Bradley Adams / Tone Tree Music
- Tracks: 9
- Website: http://www.peterbradleyadams.com
Kenny Foster - Deep Cuts (17/04/17)
- Artist: Kenny Foster
- Genre: Country, Americana, Roots, Rock
- Release Date: 17th April, 2017
- Record Label: Kenny Foster
- Tracks: 12
- Website: https://kennyfostermusic.com/
While Kenny Foster isn’t exactly ‘new’ to country music, the momentum behind the unmistakable balladeer’s 2017 release ‘Deep Cuts’ has a host of new fans flocking to the raw grit and brutal honesty of Foster’s remarkably mature, thoughtful and unapologetic songwriting. Lush with real instruments, astute observations and the deconstruction of one man’s head and heart, Foster has built a monument to the American experience that seeks to universalize the specific, and embody the very specific ways that we are all very much the same. While the pop-laden sounds of country radio have been trending away from the genre’s organic roots in recent times, Foster makes a case for preserving the foundations of country music while still allowing it the chance to comment on and even pine over the ever-evolving landscape.
Authentic. Accessible. This timeless collection of songs will echo through the annuls of the story that birthed a great American tradition, and gave words to a nation seeking to reflect its own identity. A welcomed ‘new’ voice may just have us longing for our past, and at the same time, looking ahead at how we will preserve what has always been good, and right, and true.
Foster has shared the stage with artists including Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Brothers Osborne, Old Dominion, Lady Antebellum, Marc Broussard, Butch Walker, Buddy Miller and countless others, along with multiple appearances at the ACM and CMA music festivals. He has received press in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Washington Post and Forbes - who referred to him as a 'country music superstar.' He has been featured in two Super Bowl commercials with Sheryl Crow and Danica Patrick, respectively, and has appeared in numerous episodes of ABC's ‘Nashville’ and had songs placed in ‘Extreme Home Makeover’ and ‘Boston Med’, along with videos featured on national US music channels CMT and GAC.
‘Deep Cuts’ is out now worldwide, and Kenny Foster is on tour in the UK/Ireland later this month.
Boo Hewerdine - Swimming In Mercury (28/04/17)
- Artist: Boo Hewerdine
- Genre: Singer-Songwriter
- Release Date: 28th April, 2017
- Record Label: Reveal Records
- Tracks: 12
- Website: http://www.boohewerdine.net/
Boo Hewerdine's first new studio album in eight years. 'Swimming In Mercury' will be released by Reveal Records on April 28th 2017, 12 new songs including the radio single "Satellite Town". "One of the country's most consistently admired songwriters' Folk Radio UK "Simple, poetic reflections on life and love" The Guardian Boo Hewerdine is well known as one of the greatest songwriter performers in the business, but incredibly, it's been 8 years since Boo released his last studio album of original material God Bless The Pretty Things (Reveal Records 2009). Not that Hewerdine has been inactive, far from it, the period has been the most productive of his career. Boo wrote Radio Ballads for the BBC's Olympic and recent Child Migration series. There has been a huge array of writing and producing with both established and upcoming artists and 'passing something on' to budding writers via his much loved song-writing workshops. Boo spent three years writing a daily blog which lead to podcast fun with that staff of The WORD (RIP) and invitations to join Radio broadcasts such as The Verb (BBC Radio 3) and a moment of personal satisfaction when his work was included in the radio round up Pick Of The Week on BBC Radio 4. Boo formed the duo State Of The Union with American guitarist Brooks Williams and recorded and released two albums and an EP, live in the studio with engineer Mark Freegard, the duo appeared on BBC1 TV Andrew Marr show performing their cover of Pet Shop Boys Rent. Hewerdine has written lyrics and played on over 30 new recordings by and with other artists during the period including the acclaimed 2014 album (Vagabond) and 2015 EP (Back The Dogs) with Scottish singer Eddi Reader, Last Man Standing Ep (2015) with Kris Drever of Lau and Duke Special. Reveal Records compiled the first document of his career to date with a fine Best of compilation "My Name In Brackets" and swiftly followed that with an album of lost recordings found in a box! This album was Open which received five star reviews and was number 5 in the Telegraph Albums of The Year 2015 . There wasn't a moment when Boo Hewerdine has not been working on something creative. His every day continues to be full of music and he waited patiently to tell some older personal stories that feature on his new album Swimming In Mercury. Mid-way through 2016, the first of his new material emerged via the limited edition Born EP, then in Autumn 2016 Boo played songs from Swimming in Mercury live on BBC TV's Quay Sessions (re-broadcast in January 2017).
Sam Outlaw - Tenderheart (14/04/17)
- Artist: Sam Outlaw
- Genre: Country Rock
- Release Date: 14th April, 2014
- Record Label: Six Shooter Records
- Tracks: 13
- Website: http://www.samoutlaw.com
"There's a tender heart beating for you..."
Cynicism comes easy, but having a soft heart takes real guts. Sam Outlaw's new album 'Tenderheart' dares to tread gently and look inward, with unapologetic sentiment and nods to country music's greatest neon rainbow chasers.
Since the release of his 2015 debut 'Angeleno', Sam Outlaw remains one of LA's only modern country singers to earn international acclaim. And with his follow-up 'Tenderheart' he shows an impressive refinement of his artistic identity. Sonically, the album further elaborates Outlaw's "SoCal Country" sound: a sun-bleached, Baja-influenced twang that deftly points to country's neo-traditionalists and LA's legendary singer-songwriters. Thematically 'Tenderheart' is a thesis on self-discovery and the power of love - a course set with the opening chords of "Everyone's Looking For Home." The opening track is a cinematic, mariachi-laced meditation on Outlaw's own conflicted quest for peace among the chaos of his chosen path.
Over the course of these thirteen songs it becomes increasingly apparent why his clever intertwining of country tropes and crisp modernism has so impressed country music fans, critics and songwriters alike. (Alt-country pioneer Ryan Adams just recently praised Outlaw, calling his work "beyond great songwriting".)
Not one to mess with a winning combination, Sam called on many of the same musicians that made 'Angeleno' such a success: harmony singer Molly Jenson, pedal steel pro Jeremy Long and guitarist Danny Garcia, along with Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) and Bo Koster (My Morning Jacket). Produced by Martin Pradler and Outlaw and recorded in the San Fernando Valley, 'Tenderheart' also features Erwin Vasquez and Mariachi Teocuitatlan, a local mariachi group who appeared in the video for 'Angeleno's' title track.
Now two years into his new life, Outlaw has learned that great dreams can only be achieved at great cost. And at its core, 'Tenderheart; is the outcome of another lesson learned: if your heart stays true, the sacrifice is worth it.
3 Daft Monkeys - Year Of The Clown (28/04/17)
- Artist: 3 Daft Monkeys
- Genre: Acoustic, Alt Folk
- Release Date: 28th April, 2017
- Record Label: 3DM Records
- Tracks: 12
- Website: https://www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk/
The LIttle Unsaid - Imagined Hymns & Chaingang Mantras (07/04/17)
- Artist: The Little Unsaid
- Genre: Folk, Electronica, Singer-Songwriter
- Release Date: 7th April, 2017
- Record Label: Carbon Moon Records
- Tracks: 10
- Website: http://www.thelittleunsaid.com/
Recent winners of the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award for boundary-pushing new music creators, The Little Unsaid have spent the last year travelling the UK and Europe, leaving audiences emotionally rapt with a live show that's been described as a thumping depth of passion, recalling the intensity and melancholic overtones of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. Led by Yorkshire-born songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Elliott, the band have just completed their forthcoming album, Imagined Hymns & Changing Mantras, recorded with Radiohead engineer and acclaimed film score producer Graeme Stewart. Stewart's touch lends a sweeping, cinematic quality to the album's ten deeply personal songs, written during Elliott's recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder after a year of ongoing personal trauma brought his life and music career to a standstill.
With a rigorous work ethic and a genre-spanning approach to songwriting that embraces elements of electronica, folk, jazz and alt-rock, it's no surprise that Elliott and the band have attracted the attention of the Steve Reid Foundation, formed in honour of the ground-breaking Miles Davis and Fela Kuti drummer. Working with a diverse range of mentors through the foundations award programme, including Gilles Peterson, Floating Points and FourTet, the band are embarking on an album launch tour in the UK this spring, culminating in a return to major festivals throughout the summer. It's here on the live circuit that the band have steadily built their reputation for creating electric, emotionally-charged performances, and this remains where their hunger lies.
"These songs were all born out of a search for meaning in the darkness we all find ourselves in at some point in our lives," Elliott explains, "and for me and the band, getting out there and sharing them with people is a really powerful thing. That magic that occurs when the music and the energy of an audience creates sparks, that's what we're always chasing. There's an immense feeling of unity in those moments, and I think we all need that more than ever right now."
Andrew Combs - Canyons Of My Mind (07/04/17)
- Artist: Andrew Combs
- Genre: Country Soul
- Release Date: 7th April, 2017
- Record Label: Loose Music, under exclusive license from Andrew Combs
- Tracks: 11
- Website: https://www.andrewcombsmusic.com/
Harbottle & Jonas - Anna Is A Dancer (28/04/17)
- Artist: Harbottle & Jonas
- Genre: Folk
- Release Date: 28th April, 2017
- Record Label: Independent
- Tracks: 8
- Website: https://www.harbottleandjonas.com/
Emily Mae Winters - Siren Serenade (28/04/17)
- Artist: Emily Mae Winters
- Genre: Indie Folk, Americana, Folk
- Release Date: 28th April, 2017
- Record Label: Emily Mae Winters (Independent)
- Tracks: 11
- Website: http://www.emilymaewinters.com/
Emily Mae Winters' haunting folk songs are quickly permeating the folk scene. A poetic singer songwriter; her music splits the difference between folk, transatlantic and country. Produced by BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner, Ben Walker, 'Siren Serenade' is an 11 track album which features a mixture of contemporary original and traditional and folk songs drawing inspiration from poetry and literature and drawing on themes of love, loss, fate and memory.
The album features a host of top folk names including Ben Walker (Guitar), Evan Carson (Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys- Drums), Ben Savage (Dobro), Hannah Sanders (Additional Vocals), Lukas Drinkwater (Double Bass) and more.
Charlie Worsham - Beginning Of Things (21/04/17)
- Artist: Charlie Worsham
- Genre: Country
- Release Date: 21st April, 2017
- Record Label: Warner Bros / Wea
- Tracks: 14
- Website: http://www.charlieworsham.com/
Beginning of Things is Worsham's second full-length album and follows 2013's 'Rubberband', which received widespread acclaim. American Songwriter calls Worsham, "the sort of triple threat artist that seems in short supply on Music Row these days. He writes well, sings well, and is a skilled and tasteful guitarist to boot," while Rolling Stone asserts, "A fleet-fingered guitarist and empathetic vocalist, his talent is reminiscent of a young Keith Urban in all the best ways." Co-produced by Frank Liddell (Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack, Aubrie Sellers) and Eric Masse (Rayland Baxter, Mikky Ekko) with Arturo Buenahora, Jr. (Eric Church, Dierks Bentley) serving as the Executive Producer, Beginning of Things includes 13 new songs, nine of which Worsham co-wrote. Of the album, Worsham comments, "We had so much fun! I had fallen out of love with music, and making this record put me back in love with it on a level I hadn't felt since I was a teenager. Beginning Of Things was a challenge in surrendering control and trusting my own talent. I'm confident that these songs and these recordings capture my musical geography and personal truth, and at the end of the day, I'm convinced that is the ultimate purpose of an artist-to speak one's truth."