(December 2, 2020) Multi-faceted singer Dylan Chambers is new to us at SoulTracks, but the Arlington, Texas native and L.A. transplant is hitting us just right with our first exposure. Working with producer Stefan Litrownik (Boyz II Men), Chambers is issuing a series of singles capturing classic soul vibes with new energy.
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
K Michelle DuBois – All Night Glamour (Baby Robot Records)
Arlo Parks – Caroline
This Way to the Egress – Skin and Bones
Gorillaz, Robert Smith – Strange Timez
Bee Appleseed, Haley Johnsen Music – Some Kinda Homage to Lou Reed
Fontaines D.C. – Living In America
Karaoke – Ride off into the Doom
Mr. Lif, Stu Bangas, The Perceptionists – Mr. Lif & Akrobatik – Sonar
MIGHTY – Daisy
BFB Da Packman, Wiz Khalifa – Fun Time
Maya Lazaro, Makia – Burn x Dance
Kelly Lee Owens, John Cale – Corner Of My Sky
Delta Spirit – How Bout It
Doves – Cathedrals of the Mind
Ta-ku – Remember Me
WIDOWSPEAK – The Good Ones
Vigil Of War – Spoon Fed
WRENN – Maggie Gyllenhaal
Keeps – I Was The One
Necrot – Stench of Decay
Pig Destroyer – The Cavalry
Official Venomous Concept – Lemonade
Zache Davis – Most Probably
Agallah Don Bishop – Illest Alive
Red Rum Club – Kids Addicted
Mach-Hommy – Squeaky Hinge
BERWYN MUSIC – 017 Freestyle
14 trapdoors – Most of the Time
Unleash The Archers – Soulbound
LOST BEACH – Corners
Local Opener, BOYO – Oh You
Deradoorian – Corsican Shores
This week we chat with country musician David Quinn and listen to his newest album Letting Go. We chat pandemic, new, old, and future music, and moving from the city to the woods.
Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
E.Z. Shakes – Killing Time
David Quinn – I Hope I Don’t
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Up All Night
Wayne Graham – Chifforobe (K&F Records)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms – Live at Alexandra Palace
Josh Merritt – Honest As a Song
James Houlahan – Tehachapi Dust
Martin Ruby – Marfa (WhistlePig Records)
The Trongone Band – Don’t Give up on Love
Deeohgee, Uncle Sexy and The Nephews – Too High to Cross the Street
John Pedigo’s Magic Pilsner – Don’t Piss on My Boots (and Tell Me It’s Raining) – State Fair Records
The Steel Wheels – Don’t Want to Come Back Down
Roan Yellowthorn – I’m Enough (Blue Élan Records)
Maple Run Band – Hangin’ ’round
Laura Veirs – Burn Too Bright
Adia Victoria – South Gotta Change
Larry Seaman – Levitate
Will & The Wilderness – Feelin’ Easy
Sun June – Karen O
Max Gomez – He Was a Friend of Mine
Becky Buller, Ned Luberecki – Head On Down The Line
Sam Burton – Can It Carry Me
Justin Moses, Dan Tyminski – Between The Lightning And The Thunder
The Dirty Knobs – Fuck That Guy
Harrow Fair – Sins We Made
Moira Smiley – Days of War
The Winnie Blues – Coming Home to You
Told Slant – Flashlight On
The Bats – Warwick
Katy J Pearson – Something Real
The Fugitives – Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire
Eric Harrison’s Crash Chorus, Rachel Potter – Down Down Down
Randall Bramblett – Never Be Another Day
Harmonica and cloud chamber bowls lend delicate, flashing adornment. The wonder, with this album, is that everything feels intensely ‘real’. There is no artifice here, only art, and North’s art is immediately connecting and approachable, harking back to the ages-old tradition of Folk music: music for ‘folk’, music for us all. ‘They say it’ a good day to die’ sings North and there is no melodrama here, merely humanity. (by Chris Wheatley)
Americana artist Stuffy Shmitt is an old NYC rock & roller, singer/songwriter and guitarist who has performed and recorded with everyone from The Band’s Levon Helm to David Johansen of the New York Dolls. About eight years ago, Stuffy went off the rails, consumed by bipolar disorder. Finally, he got himself properly medicated, moved to Nashville and was able to sort out everything he’d created during his bouts of depression & mania. The resulting album, Stuff Happens—featuring guest spots by Aaron Lee Tasjan & Brian Wright—is his finest yet.
Forthcoming single “Mommy and Daddy”—the centerpiece of the record—is a raw, heart-crushing, gorgeously written and produced rumination on returning home to find your once-vibrant parents closing in on the end of their lives. An aching slow-burn that erupts into a memorable chorus, the song deals in stark vignettes that etch themselves into your mind…