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Rootstime Belgium reviews veteran singer-songwriter Stuffy Shmitt’s “Stuff Happens,” his first new album in 8 years

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Stuff Happens is the title of a new album by New York City singer-songwriter Stuffy Shmitt. This record comes just over eight years after the release of the two albums he released in 2012, Twelve Songs and Industrial Love. However, Shmitt couldn’t handle the tremendous pressure placed on him afterward, and he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which drove him pretty crazy with depression and unstoppable mania.
 
Between 2000 and 2008 he also released several albums that confirmed his great talent as a singer and songwriter. But it was the skyrocketing expectations of the music industry that ultimately drove him into such a fragile state. Shmitt was thoroughly treated, moved to Nashville six years ago and now seems to have resurrected as a musician. On Stuff Happens, the 11 songs he wrote for this album show that he has joy, joie de vivre and optimism again.
 
We can conclude that from the song “It’s OK,” the opening track and first single of the album. In the beautiful acoustic ballad “Mommy and Daddy,” he cleverly interprets the timeless feeling of aging. The album features a well-thought-out mix of indie folk, blues rock and Americana.
 
Catchy melodies are the basis of the rocking songs “Jim’s Dad” and “Sweet Krazy,” while blues sounds predominate in songs like “Scratchin ‘At The Cat” and “The Good Land.” Shmitt also shines in beautifully orchestrated Americana ballads such as “She’s Come Unglued,” “Mommy and Daddy,” “Something Big” and piano-accompanied “The Last Song,” in which he reminds us for a moment of David Bowie. And we also have to mention our favorite track from this album, “Sleeping On The Wet Spot”, a classic in the making that ripples onto a lovely melody.
 
For the recording of this new album, Shmitt’s regular backing band received instrumental assistance from some well-known names in the Nashville music scene. Aaron Lee Tasjan and Brian Wright played lead guitar on “Sweet Krazy” and “Scratchin ‘At The Cat,” Jellyroll Johnson appears on harmonica on “The Good Land” and Anana Kaye and Brett Ryan Stewart handle keyboards. And, finally, in our opinion, album producer Chris Tench also deserves to be honored here for all the excellent work he turned in from his recording studio in Franklin, Tenn.
 
 
CATCH THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE (& WATCH STUFFY SHMITT’S VIDEOS FOR “IT’S OK” & “MOMMY AND DADDY” AT ROOTSTIME BELGIUM..
 
 

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Atwood Magazine weighs in on the new Kurt Deemer LP, World Upside Down, calling it “impressively uplifting”…

It may feel like the world is falling to pieces. It’s felt a lot like that for a full year now. But let’s not forget that many of us have felt that way previously– including not terribly long ago when Donald Trump was first elected to office and liberal counties across the country freaked out in manners comparable to those of the terrestrials in War of the Worlds.

Kurt Deemer, a Baltimore native and experienced rock performer, remembers that period well. In fact, he was able to channel his specific reaction to that event, as well as to other unsettling occurrences in modern history, into a new batch of tunes that he’s collectively titled World Upside Down and whose thematic content reflects just that.

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Americana Highways says Jon LaDeau & Mayteana Morales’ special duo performance video of new single “Time Capsules” will “send chills up and down your spine”

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Americana Highways has premiered the new duo performance video of Jon Ladeau & Mayteana Morales’ “Time Capsules,” the title track from LaDeau’s forthcoming EP due out on April 2.

On the EP, “Time Capsules” was engineered by Justin Kimmel and Sam Merrick; mixed by Jesse Lauter and mastered by Alan Silverman. The song features Mayteana Morales on lead vocals (ex-Pimps of Joytime); Jon LaDeau on guitar and backing vocals; Justin Kimmel (Antibalas, Toubab Krewe) on bass; Sam Merrick (Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones) on drums; and Justin LaDeau on piano.

In the video, you’ll hear Mayteana Morales on vocals and Jon LaDeau on guitar and vocals.  This pretty song of struggle and regrets will send chills up and down your spine.

 
 

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Americana UK shares Katie Jo’s train-travel-inspired music video for her train-beat-driven new single “How Soon”

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The new single from Katie Jo is a sonic throwback: classic country with a classic country vocal.  Sounding both new and familiar at once, “How Soon” is immediately absorbing.  The strong and restless rhythm mirrors the song’s theme of fickle love, fading feelings and moving on.  Though it’s upbeat, the focus on the sort of love that is bound to fail has that stark bitterness found in much of the best country and Americana.   
 
Here, the twist is that it’s written from the point of view of the woman left behind rather than the rambling man.  The inversion of this country cliché gives the song a freshness.  The accompanying video, featuring footage taken by Jo while travelling by rail across the American west, works well with that railroad train beat.  The Los Angeles-via-Wichita singer-songwriter delivers this timeless song with such confidence that comparisons with Luther Perkins and early Cash are justified.
 
 
 

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VENTS Magazine debuts the latest track from Parker Smith, “Holy Water,” calling it “Asbury Park-indebted blues-rock.”

Unlike most of his peers in the Americana community, Smith manages to defy being pigeonholed by inflecting his music with touches of blue-eyed soul (“Fray”), Asbury Park-indebted blues-rock (“Holy Water”), and even Gordon Lightfoot (“Arrowroot”). Though Underground might technically fall under the umbrella of a “quarantine album,” these songs differentiate themselves from Smith’s oeuvre in their raw, confessional nature and their hummability: these are songs not easily shaken from memory.

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