Country rocker Kyle Daniel released his stellar album What’s There To Say?, an honest collection of songs chronicling life’s hardships and hard won victories, earlier this year. Today, Wide Open Country is premiering Daniel’s live performance of the album’s title track. Daniel recorded the song at Acme Radio Live (recorded at Nashville’s Acme Feed & Seed).
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The Good Graces – Prose and Consciousness
Blending the intense folk undertones of Kurt Cobain with the jangly style of Phoebe Bridgers and boygenius, the Good Graces make ‘90s resurgence-style indie-folk music for real music fans. At the heart of the Good Graces is songwriter, singer and guitarist Kim Ware, with core band member Jonny Daly contributing guitar, and a cast of interchanging band members on banjo, mandolin, steel guitar and piano.
Prose and Consciousness is an exercise in honest songwriting. Consciously eschewing break-up songs, Kim Ware has penned songs tapping into her relationship with herself as a whole human being, with a dawning exploration of the meaning of life. The approach on this album is less atmospheric and more focused on the songs than the Good Graces’ previous work. Showcasing Ware’s open lyrical style, Prose and Consciousness tackles the challenge of accepting life’s uncertainties head-on.
Recorded in Marietta, Georgia at the Green House Studio, the album was tracked in four live sessions. The songs include a little banjo without being bluegrass, and a whole heap of acoustic guitar without being campfire folk. There’s pedal steel and harmonica as well, all in balanced proportion to indie rock beats.
“This album represents honesty. It’s really important to put something out that is honest and real,” Ware says. “I used to feel strongly that my songs needed to have a clear point, but we can’t always come away with a clear answer in life. These songs reflect that realization.” “Wants + Needs” is the centerpiece of the album’s style. With lyrics like: “I need to behave but I want to be bad. Do you ever get caught in between?” it captures that realization of life’s uncertainty in abundance.
Ware was given the title for the song “His Name Was the Color That I Loved” as a member of a songwriter’s group, with a challenge to write a song to it. “It didn’t start out being autobiographical, but then it turned out to be about my Dad, and times we would take a walk after a frost to look at the buds to see if they were still frozen, to see if the crops would survive. Writing this way pushes me to write outside my typical subject matter.” With lines like “nothing is certain except that we don’t know,” the Good Graces accept being okay with that as we come to terms with our place in the universe.
“Blood Orange Moon Shot” uses heartbeat-paced rhythms on acoustic guitar to set the tone before opening out into brighter sonic spaciousness. Pedal steel and guitar trade-offs create a hypnotic effect on “Story To Tell.” And “Three” offers harmonica in the folk-indie mix.
Synthesizing influences from Liz Phair to Lori McKenna and Lydia Loveless, Ware’s Southern twang and straightforward, confessional lyrical style are at the forefront of the songs, while the recording honors more recent production values. Punctuating songs with sonic upswells and subtle embellishments, this is folk music at heart with all the indie trimmings.
The layered musical arrangements are due to multi-instrumentalist Kim Ware’s musical sensibilities. Ware learned the drums as a child and performed in bands through her 20s, only turning to guitar after she was powerfully drawn to purchase one in Atlanta’s Lakewood flea market. It was a match made in heaven, with the songs fairly tumbling out in quick succession. After several EPs and the Good Graces’ albums Drawn to You (2013) and Close to the Sun (2014), a connection with Jonny Daly accelerated the musical pace and led to the more recent Set Your Sights (2017) and The Hummingbird EP (2018).
With Prose and Consciousness, the Good Graces are clearly branching into new territory both lyrically and sonically from their roots in the soil of their still-recognizable signature musical style.
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The band’s willingness to incorporate new ideas into their music while staying close to their familiar sound is what keeps fans around and adds new ones to the fold. With Live the Love Beautiful they continue to do just that taking their music to new places with recently acquired guitarist Laur Joamets and producer Aaron Lee Tasjan.
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Columbus, Ohio-based artist Angela Perley salutes struggling musicians on the resolute “Local Heroes,” a pensive, slow-burning country ballad about the seemingly never-ending grind of a road warrior. From long drives between gigs to splitting the paltry earnings between band members, the song captures a night in the life of many musicians.
“All this driving has got me thinking about how small I really am,” Perley sings. “Playing music in some dark room/ Splitting money with the band.”
Perley says the song, the latest release from her forthcoming album 4:30 (out on Aug. 2), was written with her own heroes and peers in mind.
“‘Local Heroes’ is an ode to every musician that is out there grinding it out, night after night, year after year. It’s my salute to them, to let them know they are not alone, that their voice matters, and to keep going,” Perley tells Wide Open Country. “It’s also in memory of some of the greats we lost too soon, including many musicians and friends I’ve seen follow either a destructive path or just completely give up on music.”
“There are a lot of smoke and mirrors in the music business and I don’t think people realize the weight and amount of pressure that is put on musicians mentally and physically. To be away from your family and loved ones most of the time can be isolating and can cause strain on those relationships,” Perley continues. “There can be some casualties involved in friendships too, when people perceive certain amounts of success in others. Some will take the route of jealousy and actively root against their peers instead of standing and celebrating with them and that has never made sense to me…Overall though, the song is a love song to other musicians out there. It’s about hope and about sending love and strength to those on their journey.”