It may seem as if Wyatt Blair unlocked his hook-filled guitar pop from a time vault. But upon first listen, the tireless singer-songwriter’s latest single, “Cherry Rose,” sounds very much akin to this city’s late-seventies power-pop roots—its crunchy guitars and compressed drum sound could be easily mistaken as a Bomp/Elektra Records long-lost gem. READ MORE…
No sign of taking the foot off the gas for Atlanta Georgia rockers Drivin N Cryin. Over three decades on the road and they’re still raising hell! Their recent release Live The Love Beautiful is their 19th studio recording and it’s a gem! Front man Kevin Kinney has also released nine solo albums throughout his career and remains as committed and enthusiastic to his art as ever. Drivin N Cryin play a number of showcases at AmericanaFest in Nashville next month and we caught up with the passionate Kinney for a whistle stop journey across an accomplished and continuing career for him and his band.
Morris County native Sammy Kay didn’t think he had anything left after his third album, Untitled. He was battling mental health issues and substance abuse. He was tired of touring and didn’t know what his future would hold, but he still believed. In fact, he ended Untitled with the song “I Believe.” READ MORE…
The seeds of Van Plating, the new recording project of songwriter Rachel Plating and writing partner Bradley Walden, may have been sewn upon birth, but not until being thrown through the gauntlet of human experience and tragedy was Plating able to harness the bittersweet tumult that is her eponymous debut album, which will be self-released on November 15th.
“Some people you can love up close, some people from afar/ I guess the trick is knowing which kind they are,” Karen and the Sorrows’ Karen Pittelman sings on the heartbreakingly beautiful “Far Away,” the latest release from the band’s forthcoming album Guaranteed Broken Heart (out on October 18).
Anchored by a lonesome fiddle and steel guitar, “Far Away” finds Pittelman reflecting on the complications of attempting to love someone from a distance.
DittyTV is pleased to present a world premiere video from indie folk/alt country artist Sara Rachele, whose new album, Scorpio Moon, was released earlier this month on Angrygal Records.
Scorpio Moon is Rachele’s most sophisticated collection of songs to date, submerged in ’60s pop, country, folk, Americana and jazz. Rachele covers what she describes as “the most challenging take [she’s] ever recorded in the studio,” with her new rendition of “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” originally written by Burt Bacharach and gifted to Dionne Warwick in 1963. Rachele adds, “This is one of my favorite Bacharach songs, and the idea of being caught in love, trapped and simultaneously free is—well, confounding. We are who we are, wherever we go, sometimes trapped within our own hearts. You can be lonely anywhere, and you can also be free.”