Ross Adams must know a thing or two about making a song hit home because he surely nails it on his latest song “East Me Into Dying.” Adams brings together colors and musical embellishments that honor a Springsteen meets Son Volt tenacity of grit, poignancy, and blue-collar Americana. READ MORE…
Glide is proud to premiere the song and video for the knock-em dead single “Alone,” which features the cool windswept pedal steel of Jon Rauhouse. In a crowded Americana scene, Megan and Shane stand out as licit ambassadors for a vintage sound, where accomplished vocals, stirring musicianship and colorful nuances give its music a sense of time and place. Let’s hope they can get out to Nashville soon and use their teaching chops to put on a clinic of their own.
While too many artists these days patronizingly try to copy their peers, nobody actually goes to the source itself. While James Houlahan might not evoke the name recognition of others, his instinct and passionate take on folk is one to behold. On his new LP, Ordinary Eye, Houlahan features Lou Reed / Fiona Apple drummerDanny Frankel and violinist Scarlet Rivera, the timeless fiddler on Bob Dylan’s classic 1976 album Desire and was part of the infamous Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
Produced by longtime collaborator Fernando Perdomo, the album was recorded at L.A.’s Reseda Ranch Studios during the weeks leading up to America’s Covid-19 quarantine. This context adds new gravity to Houlahan’s music, while the A-list studio band—including drummer Frankel (Lou Reed, Fiona Apple, Nels Cline), violinist Rivera (Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue) and vocalist Esther Clark—fulfill this fully realized effort.
Glide is premiering the video for the hush landscaped folk of “On My Own,” which showcases Houlahan’s crafty songwriting styling that is a mix between the introspectively daring sounds of Bill Callahan, Greg Brown, and Will Oldham.
There’s no denying that Matt Jones who performs as Two Cent Revival has a knock-em dead voice that permeates with the rustic flair towards the north of the border 70’s singer-songwriters mixed with certain familiar outlaw country stalwarts. It’s a trusty gravitas that stirs alongside a storytelling knack in the vain of Colter Wall and Ryan Bingham. Two Cent Revival comes full circle with its sound on its new album Demons (out September 3rd, 2021). READ MORE…
Portland, Maine-based GoldenOak is the creative partnership between siblings Zak and Lena Kendall. The hush folk duo is preparing to release their sophomore LP, Room To Grow, on June 25th. Engineered by Ryan Ordway and Dan Capaldi, mixed by Ordway and Sam McArthur, and mastered by Adam Ayan, GoldenOak’s second studio album is a kinetic tribute to the untamed nature of climate change. READ MORE…
Los Angeles-via-Wichita Americana artist Katie Jo is gearing up to release her debut album, Pawn Shop Queen, this spring. While she’s a relative newcomer to the scene, she makes up for it in life experience. You can hear it in her voice—sweet yet road-weary, a contemporary torchbearer for classic country stars like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. Her lyrics tell the tale of a woman who’s had her heart broken more than once but still stands strong.
Pawn Shop Queen—out April 9—tackles themes at the dark heart of country music: infidelity, religion, depression. For the album, Katie Jo worked with Chris Schlarb at Ego Studios in Long Beach. She met Schlarb through her pedal steel player, session musician George Madrid. Schlarb assembled an impressive cast to play on the record, which was tracked live in just three days.