Sarah Rachele’s last album ‘Scorpio Moon’ had a richly layered augmented band sound, but the follow up ‘Scorpio Sun’ which is due out this year has ripped up that design and started afresh with the emphasis on the raw, the personal and the stripped back. It means that there’s nothing between the listener and the song, just the rawness laid out in full view.
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
Bee Appleseed – All is Forgiven (Baby Robot Records)
Grouplove – Deleter
The Pedaljets – Placid City Girl
Pixies – Please, Don’t Go – Demo
Church Girls – Florida
Amyl and the Sniffers – Got You
Sara Melson – Rather Have You
Bambara – Serafina
Doomtree – Spill Me Up
Atmosphere, Nikki Jean – Lovely (Rhymesayers)
JAMS The Flava Child – G.M.Y.L.
Caroline Rose – Feel the Way I Want (New West Records)
Mara Connor – Wildfire
Tennis – Need Your Love
Slow Parade – Waiting on the Smoke to Clear
Pearla – Daydream
Moses Sumney – Me in 20 Years
Pom Pom Squad – Red with Love
Beach Slang – Let It Ride (Bridge 9 Records)
Public Practice – Extra-Ordinary
Stu Bangas, Ty Farris – Open the Lane
Water From Your Eyes – Adeleine
QWAM – Mall
Habibi – Angel Eyes
Cro-Mags – PTSD (Victory Records)
Nada Surf – Something I Should Do
Wasted Shirt, Ty Segall, Black Pus – Double the Dream
Boogie – Tired/Reflections
Thundercat, Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington – Black Qualls – Single Version
Grandaddy – RIP Coyote Condo #5
Sunwatchers – Sunwatchers vs. Tooth Decay
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Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
Bee Appleseed – All is Forgiven (Baby Robot Records)
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Be Afraid
Sara Melson – Rather Have You
Wynonna, Bob Weir – Ramble On Rose (Anti Records)
Craig Gerdes – Between the Cradle and the Grave
Jim Lauderdale – As a Sign (Yep Roc)
Sarah Peacock – Mojave
Michelle Brooke – Find Your Love
Andy Brasher – If She Loves
Alan Barnosky – Ain’t It a Shame
Jen Starsinic – Drive to the Ocean
The Little Miss – Baby, It’s October
Bridge 19 – Come What May
Dallas Moore – Mama & Daddy
Mara Connor – Wildfire
Anna Ash – Sister Golden Hair (America cover)
Robert Vincent – Conundrum (Thirty Tigers)
The War and Treaty – Jealousy
Maya de Vitry – Constantly
Nicole Atkins, Britt Daniel – Captain
Son Little – neve give up
Terry Allen, The Panhandle Mystery Band, Shannon McNally – Houdini Didn’t Like the Spiritualists
Gill Landry – The Wolf
The Lil Smokies – Fortunes
Pokey LaFarge – Fuck Me Up (New West)
James Hunter Six – Brother or Other
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – This Is Far From Over (Drag City)
Samantha Fish – Kill or Be Kind
The Ballroom Thieves – Homme Run
Vance Gilbert – Pie & Whiskey
Jackson Browne – Love is Strange/Stay
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Kentucky country singer-songwriter Andy Brasher offers a sweet, tender country ballad just in time for Valentine’s Day with “If She Loves,” a tribute to a partner who “loves whole-heartedly” from Brasher’s forthcoming album Myna Bird.
Brasher says he wrote the song for his girlfriend, Tamarra.
“I’ve been looking forward to releasing ‘If She Loves’ probably more than any one song on the record,” Brasher tells Wide Open Country. “It’s personal. I wrote it for my girlfriend, Tamarra, who embodies the song. And it just so happens to be coming out on Valentine’s Day! The first time I performed it live, she was in the audience and I decided to lock eyes with her through the entire song. Kind of as a joke at first, kinda to watch her squirm a little and see how she’d react. Maybe she’d crack up? Maybe she’d get nervous, knowing that there were so many people watching us?
Americana Highways has premiered Julie Amici and Dean Mueller’s “Blind Beulah” from their forthcoming album, I Loved You So, due to be available on April 10. The album was produced and recorded by Alan Jones & Dean Mueller at Rain Cave Studio & Ripping Glass Studio; then engineered and mastered at The Rye Room by Matt Greco.
“Blind Beulah” is Julie Amici on vocals, Dean Mueller on upright bass and left channel acoustic guitar; Thad Beckman on right acoustic guitar; Alan Hager on electric guitar; and Alan Jones on drums and percussion. With a classic country feel, Julie Amici and Dean Mueller will spin you a tale of a life well-lived. READ MORE…
