2014-07-19
19th July 2014 – BBC Playlist
Playlist week of
19th July 2014
Brand new music
from Steve Gulley, American Young and Radney Foster. Plus classics from Radney
Foster, Kim Carnes, Alison Krauss and Marty Brown
Lucas Hoge - Flip Flops NEW Single
Thrasher Shiver - All The King’s Horses | Album: Thrasher
Shiver (1996) MP3 (Kelly Shiver July 19, 1963) BIRTHDAY
American Young - Wasn’t Gonna Drink Tonight | Album: American
Young (EP; June 2014) MP3 - UK iTunes NEW Single
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - The Precious Jewel | Album: Beyond The
Missouri Sky (1997) CD (Charlie Haden died July 11th, aged 76)
TG Sheppard & Kelly Lang - You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling |
Album: Iconic Duets MP3 (T G Sheppard July 20, 1942) BIRTHDAY
Kim Carnes - Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness |
Album: (July 20, 1946) BIRTHDAY
Alison Krauss - Endless Highway | Album: I've Got That
Old Feeling CD (1990) (July 23, 1971) BIRTHDAY
David Frizzell - Where Are You Spending Your Nights
These Days | Album: The Familys Fine, But This Ones All Mine / On My Own Again
(2 on 1; Morello Records) CD
Pam Tillis - Spilled Perfume | Album: Sweetheart's
Dance & All Of This Love (2 on 1) CD - MP3 (July 24, 1957) BIRTHDAY
Marty Brown - It Must Be The Rain | Album: (July 25,
1965) BIRTHDAY
Skylar Elise - You’ll Never Understand | Album: Skylar Elise (EP; May 2013) MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com NEW Single
Valerie Smith - Where I Used To Have a Heart | Album: The
Human Condition (Aug 5, 2014) MP3 - UK iTunes NEW
New on The Show
Kelsey Waldon
“Town Clown” – “This is probably one of my favourites on
here...It’s a wonderful track, a really good country sound” - Marie
Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Genre: Country Music!
tags: alt-country/ Americana/
country outlaw country/ singer-songwriter/ traditional
Hometown: Monkey's Eyebrow,
Kentucky
Current Location: Nashville
A razor-sharp lyricist and a
singular singer
Sounds Like: Tammy Wynette on a trip to Whiskeytown, as unafraid
of heavy twang and spitfire pedal steel as coffeehouse confessionals. For Fans
Of: Loretta Lynn, John Prine, Caitlin Rose.
Her music is best described
as classic country/Americana and her debut album is full of pedal steel and
gritty lyrics.
“(The album) is just
basically about how it doesn’t take money to make you happy,” she says.
“Burning a lot of bridges that you shouldn’t have burned, families get torn
apart and money’s not everything.”
East Nashville crooner Kelsey Waldon is bringing back '70s era
saloon rock on her new album The Goldmine. You can almost hear the bottles
bursting over chain-link barriers, and smell the smoke of a thousand Marlboro
Reds on this one.
This singer-songwriter and
unofficial Queen of East Nashville (she moved there from Kentucky) released her
debut album in June 24th 2014, entitled, THE
GOLDMINE which was crowd-funded ($5000 goal reached on Indiegogo)
Why You Should Pay Attention: Waldon came to Nashville from Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky – a town that can count its residents on fingers and toes – to attend Belmont University, with a backpack full of Guy Clark records and denim to match. But the swiftest education came on the stages of local dive bars, where she found that people listened best when she sang honestly about the realities of her dirt-road upbringing. On her debut LP, The Goldmine, Waldon makes music like someone raised on both "White Lightnin'" and Wilco, tackling troubled pasts, cheatin' hearts and what happens when we don't all worship the same
American
dreams. "My daddy's gone to rehab/I'm just trying not to do the
same," she sings before a rollercoaster Telecaster riff.
Read
more : Meet the most buzzworthy
Critical Acclaim:
The Washington Post names "The Goldmine" one of this month's best in music!
...This Kentucky-raised rookie frequently sings in an endearing, old-school
twang, but on the title track of her debut album, her voice glows like
honky-tonk neon: “I don’t want the goldmine, I just want to be all right.” "I
promise this is country’s coolest young voice." - Joe Heim, The Washington Post
Farce The Music.com - Kelsey Waldon is so country, she never has to mention it on the
entirety of her new album, yet you know it from the first word she sings (the
first note, in fact). Her voice is effortlessly twangy and personable and The
Goldmine
proudly
hails from a lineage of Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Lee Ann Womack and the
like.
Billboard Feature - Kelsey Waldon says that while her style of country offers a more
traditional slant, she can certainly identify with many of the lyrics on the
radio these days.
Policymic:
The 9 Real Country Music Stars of Our Generation - Somewhere between Folsom
Prison and all those dirt roads with the girls in painted-on jeans in the
moonlight, country music got taken over by bros. But there's a part of the
country world most people haven't heard — a young part where some of the
world's best songwriters are creating something that's respectful of their
forefathers but still fresh. Here are nine young countryartists keeping country
alive.
Watch Kelsey Waldon performing >> "One
Time Again" and "Town
Clown" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe
on May 28, 2014.
CONNECT with Kelsey Waldon:
Rachel Button
“Coach E” “Some
really lovely tracks, a mix between jazz and country, her voice is very good
even when she’s not singing straight country the vocal is really strong” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Genre: Pop/folk
Singer. Fiddle player. Songwriter. Vocal Coach.
Singer. Fiddle player. Songwriter. Vocal Coach.
Hometown: London
Influences: Nerina
Pallot, Seth Lakeman, Kate Rusby, John Mayer
I love writing and performing songs and
its my job, perfect! :)
29-year old Singer/
Songwriter hailing from the West Midlands UK.
“As cute as a
button indeed." - What's on
Magazine.
“Absolutely
Lovely” - BBC Introducing
“A rare find.
All songs on Rachel’s EP are as strong as each other, fantastic” - Brooklands Radio
‘If Jenson can drive, this button can
sing’
Rachel Button
provides a sweet remedy to the stressful nature of our existence, bringing an
idyllic, pure sound, captured on her debut EP WITH LOVE
She has gigged
extensively and supported artists such as Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) and
Steve Knightley (Show of Hands), as well as recorded guest vocals for Ministry
of Sound.
The EP expresses
the world in Rachel’s own definitive style. Songs such as “Coach
E” and ‘The Lost
Daughter’ combine dreamy, ambient melodies with the energy of a country
hoedown, demonstrating Rachel’s versatility as an artist. Recorded in 2010,
‘With Love’ was mixed by Phil Brown, who has previously worked with Bob Marley,
Dido and Led Zeppelin.
Rachel Button
has spent much of the last year working in the home of country music in the
United States and in London.
Last year Rachel joined the lovely Canadian born
singer-songwriter Ashley Robertson on
her UK tour which started off in Hammersmith in London at The Regal Room (Read review) on Sept 6, 2013. Ashley invited
Rachel and UK singer-songwriter Fiona Culley to join her on stage for the song
"Heatwave", written by all three – See Flyer and >> Watch the Video.
It has now been self
released by Ashley as a summery radio single on July 8, 2014 and is available
on Amazon UK and UK iTunes
Button's at Buttons! The 29-year-old former Perryfields High
School pupil performed at Buttons Cafe, in Oldbury within the community centre on
July 20, 2014 for the first 'Live Lounge' event at the cafe. Headlining she performed songs inspired and written
in Nashville with special guests, young artists Charlotte Fentem and Kierron
Emery.
Watch
Rachel perform >> “Coach
E” with Ashley
Robertson & Fiona Culley, Live at the Regal Room, Distiller's Hammersmith,
London (Sept 6, 2013).
Watch >> “Catch Him If You Can” performed by Barton Under Needwood native and former Lichfield beauty therapist Fiona Culley (currently based and recording in Nashville with Lady Antebellum's producer Paul Worley!) with Rachel (backing vox, fiddle) at the O2 Academy in Sheffield.
Watch >> “Catch Him If You Can” performed by Barton Under Needwood native and former Lichfield beauty therapist Fiona Culley (currently based and recording in Nashville with Lady Antebellum's producer Paul Worley!) with Rachel (backing vox, fiddle) at the O2 Academy in Sheffield.
Watch
her perform >> “War
Of The Roses” written
by Rachel, arranged by Steve Ling. Recorded Live from St Albans Church in
Chiswick (Published on Jul 1, 2014)
CONNECT with Rachel Button:
Skylar Elise
“You’ll
Never Understand” - “A really lovely
steel intro, in between traditional and contemporary” - Marie Crichton
BBC Radio Shropshire
Skylar
Elise, the debut artist to sign with Sugar Money Records has released her powerful
new single “You’ll
Never Understand”, released July 7, 2014 it showcases her compelling
vocals and distinctive sound. Skylar’s
latest release is accompanied by the music video, which is now available on
various video outlets and >> YouTube.
The
15 year old, Fort Worth, Texas, native is an old soul who has been performing
for a decade and has an uncanny ability to wring every drop of emotion from a
song. “Everybody has gone through heartbreak, but no matter how hard people try
to understand, they’ll never understand the pain you are going through unless
they’ve actually gone through it themselves,” Skylar says discussing the
vulnerable emotion behind her new music video.
Her
first single, “Gypsy Soul,” was released in June 2013 from her self-titled EP
that propelled her beyond her already extensive fan base
Skylar
devotes part of each day to writing songs, but when she’s not singing or
writing, Skylar admits she’s a tomboy and her hobbies reflect that. “I’m a
country girl! I love to shoot my bow and arrow and I like swimming and
skateboarding.”
CONNECT with Skylar Elise:
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