David Quinn is a ramblin’ man. “It’s like what they say about some sharks: if they’re not moving, they die,” he remarks. The Indiana musician demonstrated such aching need to always be on the move with his 2019 studio debut, Wanderin’ Fool ? and it seems not much has changed. His second record, Letting Go, falls quite in line with its predecessor, a musical companion piece drenched in his wood-smoked vocal and hearty blend of folk-rock and stone cold country.
The heart-wrenching “Mommy and Daddy” grapples with a universal truth that evolution has not yet alleviated. NYC-bred rock & roller Shmitt, who has performed and recorded with legends like Levon Helm and Gordan Gano, steps back into his artistry with a harrowing vignette of his once-spirited parents closing in on the end of their lives.
“My mom was a fox. She had long hair and was just a beautiful woman. My dad was a handsome, tall man,” he describes. Shmitt’s mother played the drums and his father played guitar. His sister wrote concertos, wore long black dresses, and conducted orchestras. READ MORE…
Wayne Graham delivers a multi-generational approach to Americana from the rugged hills of central Appalachia. Today, they premiere their new single, “What For?” ahead of 1% Juice, due on November 13th. READ MORE…
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
HESS – Whisper Wildwood (Baby Robot Records)
Anderson .Paak – JEWELZ
Left at London, Chuck Sutton – My Friends Are Kinda Strange
Big Boi, Killer Mike, Big Rube, Sleepy Brown – We The Ones
8 Inch Betsy – Water (Baby Robot Records)
Tune-Yards – nowhere, man
Misty Boyce – 8 days of the week
CocoRosie, Big Freedia, ANOHNI, Brooke Candy, Cakes da Killa – End of the Freak Show
Lazerbeak – Light Work
A$AP Twelvyy – Powerpuff Girls
The Head – Animal
The Menzingers – Anna
Lesibu Grand – WFS
Connor Duermit, Ray Dalton – If You’re Tired
Rebuilder – Monuments (Jay Maas Mix)
Archer Oh – Dianthus
Savants – Annika Jade
10th Letter – Honey Dutch
Wild Year – Slide
MARKS – Drive All Night
Futo – Dugout_tony Mix 01_01
Adult Mom – Berlin
Kississippi – Around Your Room
Bread & Butter – Psycho World (Killroom Records)
Totenwald – Black Drops
Chris Crack – Jail Pose With Gangstas
Jamal Gasol- Angela Flowers
They Hate Change – Stunt Cams
Black Soprano Family – Da Mob
envy- Swaying leaves and scattering breath
Higher Power- Low Season
GAG- Intro/Squeeze
The Woolen Men- Cool Breeze
Slow Pulp- Falling Apart
Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
David Quinn – Ride On
Sturgill Simpson – All the Pretty Colors
This Way to the Egress – Last Call
Laura Jane Grace – The Calendar Song
HESS – No Delays (for Josephine)
Local Natives, Sharon Van Etten – Lemon
E.Z. Shakes – Thirteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Euthanasia – Live at Alexandra Palace, 2020
Laura Rabell – Old Rag
Sinéad O’Connor – Trouble of the World
The Savants of Soul – Get Up, Get on Over You
Yola, The Highwomen, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Natalie Hemby – Hold On
Joe Stamm Band – Comin’ Home Again
M. Ward – For Heaven’s Sake
Ned Hill Music – Thunder in December (WhistlePig Records)
Jason Isbell And the 400 Unit – Only Children
Malin Pettersen – Hometown (Die With Your Boots On Records / Jansen Records)
Great Peacock – High Wind
Karen & The Sorrows – Why Won’t You Come Back to Me
Bob Gentry, Roan Yellowthorn – My Mistake (Blue Élan Records)
Darling West – Good Luck Charmer (Die With Your Boots On / Jansen Records)
Living Alma – “Happy Days” (Jansen Records)
Joel Thetford Music – So Far Gone
Josh Kimbrough – Morning Moon
Darlingside – Ocean Bed
Drumming Bird – Feels Like ’98
Mark Erelli – Rose-Colored Rearview
Izzy Heltai – Songbird
Adam Wright – I’d Be Good
WILL KIMBROUGH – Home Remedy
Last Year’s Man – Wild, Wild Heart
The Mastersons – Sensitive Souls
The Pinkerton Raid’s “Rebel Mama Blues” is a satirical slow-burner with a Bowie-meets-Black Keys feel- a blast of zeitgeist-capturing political garage-psych that explores how a whole generation of white hippie-boomer parents were unconsciously primed for late-life Fox News brainwashing by 1960s anti-authoritarian individualism.
When the Durham, N.C., band’s singer and guitarist Jesse James DeConto wrote the song- premiering exclusively today at The Big Takeover- he’d been meditating on how a steady diet of Right-wing propaganda has strained intergenerational family relationships for him and so many of his friends.
“I always thought of my parents’ generation as these hippies who stood up to The Man,” DeConto says. “Then when all the post-mortems came out after the 2016 election, it was clear that the hippies, the boomers, were the ones who chose Donald Trump. They thought of him as some kind of rebel because he didn’t have political experience, and he was supposed to be this outsider who would ‘drain the swamp.’