2015-08-15
Brand new music
from Mo Pitney & Jason Isbell and Classics from The O'Kanes, Justin Tubb
and Jim Reeves
Tribute to
Audrey Auld who died earlier in the week.
Down where the grassroots grow there’s a
soul named Beth the fairy
She flies through the garbage dumps picking up what she can carry
And her long arms reach down and give a little shove
Lord knows we could all use a little help from above.. .(Rita Hosking, BMI)
She flies through the garbage dumps picking up what she can carry
And her long arms reach down and give a little shove
Lord knows we could all use a little help from above.. .(Rita Hosking, BMI)
Homegrown Band - She Loves To Ride | Album: Summer
Song (June 2015) NEW Single MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Rose Maddox - Heart Of A Country Song | Album: Reckless
Love and Bold Adventure CD (1975) (August
15, 1925; died April 15, 1998 (aged 72)) BIRTHDATE
Mo Pitney - Boy & Girl Thing NEW Single
Dixie Chicks - You Were Mine | Album: The Essential
Dixie Chicks CD (Emily Erwin Aug 16, 1972) BIRTHDAY
Billy Joe Shaver - Sunbeam Special | Album: - Long In
The Tooth (Aug 2014) CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com (Aug 16, 1939) BIRTHDAY
The Stray Birds - Might Rain | Album: Best Medicine (Oct
2014) CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Lainey West - Southern Streamline | Album: At Last
O’Kanes - Can’t Stop My Heart From Loving You |
Album: O'Kanes (1987) CD (James
O'Hara August 8, 1950 (age 65)/ Kevin
Welch (August 17, 1955) co-founders of the Dead Reckoning Records with
fellow musicians Kieran Kane) BIRTHDAYS
Joey & Rory - Waiting On Someone | Album: His and
Hers (2012) CD
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road with Eddy Raven - I Got Mexico | Album: Common Man CD - MP3 - Amazon.com (Eddy Raven; Aug 19, 1934;
Lafayette, Louisiana) BIRTHDAY
Tammy Jones Robinette & The Drive - To Be A Kid Again NEW Single
Clay Waker Heartache Highway | Album: If I Could
Make A Living (1994) CD (Aug 19, 1969) BIRTHDAY
Jason Isbell - 24 Frames | Album: Something More
Than Free CD - MP3 - Amazon.com
Lee Ann Womack - The Last Time | Album: There's More
Where That Came From (2005) CD (Aug 19, 1966) BIRTHDAY
Justin Tubb – Lodi | Album: Masters Of The Last
Century: Best of Justin Tubb MP3 (August 20, 1935; died Jan 24, 1998
(aged 62)) BIRTHDATE
Callie Twisselman - Hung Me On The Line (Single; July
2014) MP3
Gatlin Brothers - Texas Is What Life Is All About |
Album: Partners CD (Rudy Gatlin,
Aug 20, 1952) BIRTHDAY
Trick Pony - Stand In The Middle of Texas | Album:
R.I.D.E. (2005) CD
Audrey Auld – Tree | Album: Come Find Me (2012) CD Obituary Tribute Blog
Jim Reeves - Don’t Tell Me | Album: The Great Jim
Reeves Box Set 8CD (H&H Records) (Aug 20, 1924; died July 31, 1964 (aged 40)) BIRTHDATE
For more information visit www.jim-reeves.com/greatjimreeves
Watkins Family Hour - Feelin’ Good Again | Album: Watkins
Family Hour NEW
CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Vogts Sisters - Better Off Alone | Album: My Own
Dixie (March 2015) MP3 - UK iTunes - CD
Baby - Amazon.com
Kenny Rogers - Tomb Of The Unknown Love | Album: The
Heart of the Matter MP3 - Amazon.com
Solitaire Miles - Love Is A Lingering Thing | Album: Susie
Blue and the Lonesome Fellas NEW MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Beth Hart - St Teresa | Album: Better Than Home CD (May 2015) NEW
New on The Show
Homegrown Band
“She Loves To
Ride” = Some songs are just great for
summer and driving” - Marie Crichton
BBC Radio Shropshire
Band Members:
Craig Brannon, Kevin Brannon, Jason Cole, Nick Ivey & Megan Blair
Home Town:
Carrollton, Georgia
Influences:
Jesus
The band's down-home image and songs about life as they know it enjoyed success from the start. In early 2012, HB released their first album, a self-titled EP recorded at Skaggs Family Studios in Nashville, TN and produced by Homegrown Band and Jason Singleton of Red Hill Entertainment.
After touring
for months in West and South Georgia, metro Atlanta, and East Alabama and
opening for artists like Corey Smith and Ashton Shepherd in support of the EP,
the band recorded, produced, and released its second single, "Enjoy The
Ride," in late 2013.
Since forming
in 2013, the band has toured extensively and released two albums: their
self-titled EP, Homegrown Band, and 2015s debut full-length, Summer Song. She
Loves To Ride is the band's second single from Summer Song.
Featuring lyrics about a summer evening drive with a sweetheart over a muscular four-on-the-floor groove, this fast-paced country joy ride will have you rocking wherever the road takes you!
Featuring lyrics about a summer evening drive with a sweetheart over a muscular four-on-the-floor groove, this fast-paced country joy ride will have you rocking wherever the road takes you!
Homegrown Band
released a second album tentatively titled SUMMER SONG on 30th June 2015. The
record features new songs that the band has been writing and performing over
the course of their 2013 tour schedule.
On Monday, July
27th 2015, Homegrown Band released their second single "She Loves to Ride" (Jerry Duncan
Promotions / Homegrown Entertainment) to Country Radio.
Check out the
>> Lyric Video
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Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
“Love
Is A Lingering Thing” - “Some western swing I do think this group do
it particularly well, a lovely album…it’s a great track” - Marie Crichton
BBC Radio Shropshire
Jazz &
Swing Members: Neal Alger, Stu Rosenberg, TC Furlong (slide) , Eric Schneider
Genre: Western
Swing & Country-Jazz - Celebrating America's original music in the 21st
Century
Lead singer Solitaire Miles whose birth name is
Solitaire was named after her French
great grandmother. Her parents we're hippies and came up with the "groovy
name". Her relatives we're of Russian and Polish descent and her great
grandmother on that side didn't speak much English so Solitaire was like a
tongue-twister so they started calling her Suzy as a nickname. Breaking away from
Jazz genre to Swing she then changed her name to Blue.
Solitaire Miles
(aka Suzy Blue) has always loved singing Swing tunes.
Her grandmother, a singer with a big band in the late 1930s, exposed her to the music as a child. Several members of her family were musicians and she grew up hearing Swing and Retro Country at Sunday afternoon family concerts. She performed as a teenager in the late 1980's with well known Jazz saxophonist Bruce Johnstone in the NW Pennsylvania area where she is originally from. Solitaire originally planned to be an opera singer, but while attending DePaul University in Chicago, she met the legendary Swing violinist Johnny Frigo who encouraged her to sing Swing.
Her grandmother, a singer with a big band in the late 1930s, exposed her to the music as a child. Several members of her family were musicians and she grew up hearing Swing and Retro Country at Sunday afternoon family concerts. She performed as a teenager in the late 1980's with well known Jazz saxophonist Bruce Johnstone in the NW Pennsylvania area where she is originally from. Solitaire originally planned to be an opera singer, but while attending DePaul University in Chicago, she met the legendary Swing violinist Johnny Frigo who encouraged her to sing Swing.
After college
in the early 1990's she began working in Chicago with Sax Maestro Von Freeman,
and pianist Willie Pickens, who also played on her self-titled release in 2006.
"I was lucky to have their guidance
because they were playing with the
greats in their day.” During the late
90's while living in New York City, she performed with the great trumpeter Doc
Cheatham, learning lots more Swing tunes.
From these venerable bandleaders, she learned more about phrasing. Since then, she has since been an important
part of the Chicago music scene performing with pianist Willie Pickens and
leading her own groups.
Susie Blue and
the Lonesome Fellas may be regarded as a surprise by some of Solitaire Miles’
swing fans, but it is a logical step in her evolution. “Looking for ways to
enhance my vocal agility, I took a job
with a with local Retro Country & Western Swing group. For her first
Western Swing recording, Solitaire used most of the musicians from her
regular band. “They all did a great job
of adapting to this music. Neal Alger, who wrote most of the arrangements, is
one of my favorite guitarists in Chicago” she shared.
Interview with
Scott Wikle of Fish Creek Radio about our new CD, first aired on "My Kind
of Country" June 22, 2015.
The new album "Susie Blue and the Lonesome
Fellas" has gained the #1 Top New Release on the Country Western Swing
Chart with "I'm a Fool to Care"
holds a top ten single at #6.
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