Like the mother find from an excavation effort into the burned out ruins of a vintage recording studio, exhumed from a rusted shut 2-inch reel-to-reel tape canister containing some lost and forgotten country music classic, David Quinn’s Wanderin’ Fool sets you back some 70 years in time as soon as it’s cued up on your listening device of choice. Whether your question is where country music came from, or where it has gone, the answer is contained in this record…
Archives for April 2019
American Songwriter Premieres New Track from The Good Graces
Indie-folk outfit the Good Graces has released the lead single “His Name Was The Color That I Loved” off upcoming album Prose And Consciousness, due for release via Potluck on October 11. The Good Graces is an artistic collective featuring singer, songwriter and guitarist Kim Ware. “His Name Was The Color That I Loved” emerged from an online writing challenge and pays respect to Ware’s traditions with her father…
Paste Magazine Features New Song From Grand Canyon
Even if you don’t click the play button on this track from L.A. roots-rock sextet Grand Canyon, the least you could do is doff your hat for the sheer chutzpah they’re exhibiting by naming this band after something as iconic as the frickin’ Grand Canyon. You gotta really bring the goods is you’re gonna try something that ballsy…
PopMatters Premieres New Track from Grand Canyon
Six-piece indie-folk outlet Grand Canyon are a flashback in time, reflective of the folk-rock and pop of the late 20th century this side of Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac. Antithetical of the more synthetic nature of pop hits today, the band tends to hone their focus in on earthen hooks and infectious rhythms that would produce fitting anthems for any backroad…
Wide Open Country Premieres “Standing Still” from Van Plating
Indie outfit Van Plating looks beyond the idea of soulmates to examine the importance of various types of love and relationships on “Standing Still,” the latest from the new recording project between Florida-based singer-songwriter Rachel Plating and writing partner Bradley Walden.
The breezy, country-tinged indie pop song will appeal to fans of Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour and Jenny Lewis’ On the Line.
Pop Matters Features DL Rossi’s “Better”
DL Rossi has weathered many storms ranging from a bout with testicular caner to a failed marriage. The Nashville-based Americana artist’s wizened heart, however, rings with truth and a reminder to keep being “Better”. The singer-songwriter’s latest single release, “Better” is a song steeped in both the light and darkness of his recent life situation. Carried by layers of acoustic and electric guitars and reverb-awash, melancholic piano, Rossi has produced a compelling, heartfelt ballad out of a brutally honest note-to-self.