alt.country
Track: Owen FitzGerald investigates the disassociative in the confessional alt.country of ‘Touching The Oven At Work’
DURHAM, North Carolina-based Americana troubadour Owen FitzGerald isn’t just a songwriter of whom you can simply say, he looks askance at life in a refreshing way couched in sound songsmithery – I mean he is all that, of course he is – but he brings back postcards from his own particular day-to-day travails, this mucky, …
See: North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald invites you to his outsider country confessional, ‘Bismuth, The Last Gentleman’
HE’S a gentleman of the leftfield country music scene, is Durham, North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald who, after appearing in the music world as Jokes&Jokes&Jokes awhile, has returned to his ‘government name’ – the name under which he snuck out two fine if lyrically troubled and akimbo albums digitally in 2015, Tight Gyre and Pointer. That …
See: Josh Halper – ‘Honest Feeling’: Dear Life’s alt.country troubadour’s gone fishin’
FOLLOWING last year’s rather lovely album for Dear Life, Alrightnik, Nashville’s guitar essayist Josh Halper has decided to reprise the closing track visually. He’s released a brilliantly conceived and funny short film to accompany that tune, “Honest Feeling” – you can watch it below. By way of introduction and self-summation he says, an eyebrow arched: …
See: Kyle Edward Connolly – ‘Get Me Tomorrow’: springtime country rock from Toronto
TAKING that particularly Canadian spin on the alt.country sound, as espoused by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, particularly as he moved through the ranks of Buffalo Springfield – that seems to be the mission of Kyle Edward Connolly, who’s previously plied his trade with artists such as WISH, THE SEAMS, and alongside masked country artist …
SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Paper Crown’: The Great American Songbook remade in absolute sweetness
WITH their wholly seductive new album Merlynn Belle just around the corner now – eeep! exciting, it’ll be out on Kill Rock Stars on February 5th – Texas psych-European-retro-country duo Tele Novella have decided to lift the tasteful drapes on the record one final time and reveal “Paper Crown”. (And a very lovely long player it is …
NEWS: Lucinda Williams announces Lu’s Jukebox live streams series
ALT.COUNTRY royalty Lucinda Williams has announced she’s doing her bit to help the venues and promoters she’s worked with down the years with a half-dozen themed live-stream shows called Lu’s Jukebox, running from this week right up to New Year’s Eve. The six Lu’s Jukeboxes will mostly feature her fronting a full band in HD …
SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Technicolor Town’: ramshackle and beautiful Texan alt.country
COMING atcha outta Austin, Texas, Tele Novella is currently the duo of vintage shop-owner Natalie Ribbons and Jason Chronis, who collects rare records. Tele Novella arose from the ashes of other musical projects they were involved deep down in Texas: Agent Ribbons, Voxtrot, Belaire. When they met they knew they could fashion something pretty special. Self-described as “medieval …
TRACK: Little Kid’s ‘All Night (Golden Ring)’ is a dark roots duet
TORONTO’S Little Kid are in the process of making the step up from Ontarian word-of-mouth cult act to the modern roots first team. The project of Kenny Boothby, Little Kid have shared the video for “All Night (Golden Ring)” as a taster for their LP Transfiguration Highway, which is out on July 3rd via Solitaire …