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…
B-Sides & Badlands Premieres “The Barman’s Daughter” by Shawna Virago
Shawna Virago steps behind the bar with a gleam in her eye and fluttering eyelashes. That’s the central image nestled inside her new song “The Barman’s Daughter,” in which Virago dissects family problems from the eyes of a daughter, whose father is “still stuck acting like an extra from the film ‘The Outsiders,’” Virago explains.
The song’s subtext bursts from the trans perspective, but its innate, rambling grit gives it a universal shine. “If you’ve ever worked in a bar, you know you need to be an ambassador of peace, while practicing your boxing skills,” Virago tells B-Sides & Badlands. “In my case, I also learned to smile more and batten my eyelashes for bigger tips. Works every time.”
B-Sides & Badlands Premieres Jared Deck’s Cover of Garth Brooks
Cover songs are always hit or miss. There is no in-between. In the case of Jared Deck‘s latest offering, he brings a fierce, pummeling growl to Garth Brooks’ “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House.” It’s an easy slam dunk, finding the singer-songwriter swapping out Brooks’ signature twang for his throaty grit.
Deck’s “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House” anchors his forthcoming Head Above Water, a rich tapestry that “tells a story of trying to get ahead in a just-getting-by world,” he says. “There are so many of us working to keep our heads above water, and it’s witnessing that collective struggle and work to overcome that gives me hope. It’s that shared human experience that sustains me.”
Glide Magazine Premieres “Fired Up” by Jared Deck
Glide is premiering “Fired Up” off his upcoming album Head Above Water, in which Deck makes ears take notice with a powerful honky tonk soul vibrato that would make Nathaniel Rateliff sound like a rookie.
“As an Okie, I’d like to think of myself as a disciple of the red dirt attitude begun by Woody Guthrie, transformed by Leon Russell, perfected by Jimmy LaFave, and carried forward by Red Dirt Rangers. Musically, you can hear how highly influenced I am by Leon’s time with Joe Cocker. Lyrically speaking, there’s a pain in this bloodstained soil yearning for its stories to be told, and I hope to continue that storytelling tradition,” explains Deck about “Fired Up.”
Glide Magazine Calls Shannon Vetter’s New Album a “Musical Guide for Mental Health”
On Holding Pattern, the latest from Shannon Vetter, the artist shows a deeply personal set packing the record with songs of lost love and personal addiction, all the while avoiding an all-out tear-in-my-beer soundtrack for a collection of songs that vacillate between deceptively peppy numbers and more somber moments. In doing so, Vetter – a masc-presenting non-binary person – manages to cobble together a record that you keep coming back to, and not solely for moments when you want to feel bummed.
Rock and Roll Globe Premieres By Josh Langston
Texas country rock troubadour Josh Langston is back with a brand new album coming out on March 29th called Tastes Like Sin.
Rock & Roll Globe premieres one of Tastes Like Sin’s focus tracks, the crunchy “Wishin You Would Call,” which fans of Drive-By Truckers and Blackberry Smoke ought to check out right away.