You might hafta be in the right frame of mind to listen to Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters — and by that I mean raised in Rural West-Nowhere and currently livin in Whereabouts USA. But if you are, or you have, you’re gonna pick this up right quick……READ MORE
I had listened through Nathan Bell‘s latest album at least twice before I realized he was entirely by himself on the record. The eleven hardscrabble tales were so captivating that I didn’t notice. Bell’s got a gravelly southern drawl. He fingerpicks the guitar quietly, and occasionally blows harp to accent the stories he tells about American people. Blue collar people, like Shelly, the obese large animal vet in married to Dale, a skinny patent attorney who quit to become a rodeo clown. When Dale gets injured doctors realize he’s a she, and wouldn’t you know, “Shelly didn’t seem to mind”. READ MORE…
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Ian Fisher‘s got a way with words only a traveled man can grasp. What began for him in Missouri, USA has carried him all the way to Berlin in search of songs, and there’s humor, humility, and a sense of gravitas to watermark his latest album as official symbols of his wandering. In the album opener “Nero,“ Fisher reflects on a relationship lost with all the tyranny and dissonance of the same emperor who “fiddled while Rome burned,” singing “If I was king of this town I’d burn it down,” and “If I were king of this town I’d run you around.” He’s not absent of sentimentality, though. On the next track Fisher opens with spoken word, an anecdote his grandpa used about opinions: “Opinions are like guns, just ’cause you have one doesn’t mean you gotta shoot it.” He lays into a finger-picked track over steel guitar with a nasally sneer about firing off his own opinions, called “Too Bad.”
In the press release it’s noted that Fisher’s Nero is “shaped by a tasteful, no-frills German production approach,” and bless the Germans for that. The backing instrumentation serves only to accent Fisher’s wry observational lyrics with light drumming and wailing steel licks. He cuts loose strumming on “Constant Vacation” about a life on the lam from the responsibility of relationships, and all the burdens dodging them entails. READ MORE…
Atlanta sextet Quaildogs are releasing their debut album The Getting Old Factory next week, so we thought you should hear from them now. The alt country rockers shared their track “Funnel Cloud” with us – it’s a rambling, open-prairie operatic, about how sometimes nothing goes your way, except maybe a tornado. As the storm bears down, the intensity of the song grows, easy arpeggio gives way to screaming electric solo, country fiddle crashes with drums, a piano joins in, until a rocking chorus clangs behind the ambivalent refrain, “. . . something goes my way”. READ MORE…