“Some people you can love up close, some people from afar/ I guess the trick is knowing which kind they are,” Karen and the Sorrows’ Karen Pittelman sings on the heartbreakingly beautiful “Far Away,” the latest release from the band’s forthcoming album Guaranteed Broken Heart (out on October 18).
Anchored by a lonesome fiddle and steel guitar, “Far Away” finds Pittelman reflecting on the complications of attempting to love someone from a distance.
DittyTV is pleased to present a world premiere video from indie folk/alt country artist Sara Rachele, whose new album, Scorpio Moon, was released earlier this month on Angrygal Records.
Scorpio Moon is Rachele’s most sophisticated collection of songs to date, submerged in ’60s pop, country, folk, Americana and jazz. Rachele covers what she describes as “the most challenging take [she’s] ever recorded in the studio,” with her new rendition of “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” originally written by Burt Bacharach and gifted to Dionne Warwick in 1963. Rachele adds, “This is one of my favorite Bacharach songs, and the idea of being caught in love, trapped and simultaneously free is—well, confounding. We are who we are, wherever we go, sometimes trapped within our own hearts. You can be lonely anywhere, and you can also be free.”
Nashville-based Americana singer-songwriter E.G. Vines looks back on his new song “Drunkard’s Dream,” the latest release from his forthcoming Jordan Lehning-produced album Family Business (out on October 11).
The lush, pedal steel-laden track finds Vines reminiscing on simpler times.
After uploading the aptly-titled “Demo no. 1” to SoundCloud around a year ago, Live Miranda Solberg found herself something of a viral sensation. The Norwegian folk artist was invited to play Øya and by:Larm festivals without an official solo release to her name. Given her work with Americana outfit Silver Lining, this isn’t her first time in the spotlight, but it is with the wispier elegance of her new solo effort, Louien. Now, she is preparing for the release of her solo debut, None of My Words, on 20 September via Jansen.
Americana Highways presents this video premiere of Judy Blank’s “Tiger Eye Stone.” “Tiger Eye Stone” is Judy Blank on vocals & acoustic guitar, Joe Dickey on bass, Ethan Ballinger on electric guitar and Andrew Peebles on drums with Mark Addison Chandler on backing vocals. The album, Morning Sun, was produced by Chris Taylor & Judy Blank. The video was directed and filmed by Johan Verhoeven of Cinecult productions.
“Tiger Eye Stone” is the lyrical tale of a promise ring and the comfort it brings to know somebody back home loves you, when you’re far away. The video has stunning artistic footage as it follows the ring during the travels: “I’m not alone, my baby gave me a ring with a tiger eye stone.” We’ve all had talismans to bring us comfort, and this song tugs at those feelings. Judy Blank’s Morning Sun is an indie folk ray of sunshine.