2015-09-26
Carlene Carter - Every Little Thing | Album: Little Love Letters (1993) MP3 (Sept 26, 1955)
BIRTHDAY
David Frizzell & Jimmy
Fortune - Early In The Morning
| Album: Remember Me (Buddy
Holly Country Tribute DVD/CD)
CD
- UK iTunes - Amazon.com Buddy
Holly Country Tribute “Remember Me” (Sept 26 1941) BIRTHDAY
Andrea Zonn - Let Them Go |
Album: Rise (Compass
Records) CD - MP3 - Amazon.com New
Hunter Hayes - I Want Crazy | Album: I Want Crazy (UK Compilation album) Amazon UK - UK iTunes
Hunter Hayes - I Want Crazy | Album: I Want Crazy (UK Compilation album) Amazon UK - UK iTunes
Lynn Anderson - My Guardian Angel | Album: Bridges MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com (Sept 26, 1947 died July 30, 2015 (aged 67)) BIRTHDATE
Michael English - Mama’s Footsteps | Album: Dance All Night New Amazon UK CD (out 30th Oct) - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Jemima Farey - I’ll Be Back |
Album: Barn Door Records
Joni Harms - Oregon Trail |
Album: Let's Put The Western Back In The Country MP3
Marty Robbins - Love Me (Sept
26, 1925; died Dec 8, 1982 (aged 57) BIRTHDATE
Gem Andrews - Please Forget Me | Album: Vancouver (March 16, 2015) Amazon UK - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Alabama - Wasn’t Through Lovin’ You Yet New Single | Album: Southern Drawl New CD - US iTunes - Amazon.com
Little Big Town - Girl Crush |
Album: Painkiller (Oct 2014) CD - UK iTunes - Smart Choice Music - Amazon.com
(Karen Fairchild; Sept 28) BIRTHDAY
Hip Hatchet - Travel Map |
Album: Hold You Like a Harness (released 14 April 2015) New MP3 - UK iTunes - Bandcamp - Amazon.com
Mandy Barnett - Too Soon To Know | Album: I Can't Stop Loving You, The Songs Of Don
Gibson Smart Choice Music (Sept
28, 1975) BIRTHDAY
Matt King - Memories, Fiddles & Songs | Album: Hard Country CD (Sept 28, 1966) BIRTHDAY
Gene Autry - It Makes No Difference Now | Album: Highlights From Gene Autry Vol. 1 Amazon UK (Sept
29, 1907; died October 2, 1998 (aged 91) BIRTHDATE
Breelan Angel - Rub A Little Dirt On It | Album: Diamond in a Rhinestone World (out 2 Oct 2015) UK iTunes - Amazon.com Jerry
Lee Lewis - Break My Mind | Album: (September 29,
1935) BIRTHDAY
Deborah Allen - Am I Good For One More Memory | Album: The Best Of Deborah Allen (2000) MP3 (Sept 30, 1953) BIRTHDAY
Marty Stuart - When It Comes To Loving You | Album: Saturday Night / Sunday Morning [2xCD] (Sept
2014) CD - MP3 - UK iTunes -
Amazon.com (Sept 30, 1958) BIRTHDAY
Daron Norwood - There’s Still Hope | Album: (Sept 30, 1965; died July 22, 2015 (aged 49)
BIRTHDATE
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison - I’ll Go To My Grave Loving You | Album: Our Year (June 2014) CD - MP3 (Kelly Willis;
Oct 1, 1968) BIRTHDAY
Joy Lynn White - Why Do I Feel So Good | Album: Between Midnight & Hindsight MP3
Chris Ledoux - Powder River Home | Album: Under This Old Hat (1993) MP3 (Oct 2 1948;
died March 9, 2005 (aged 56)) BIRTHDATE
New on The Show
Jemima Farey
“I’ll Be Back” - “when it builds in the chorus and the extra vocals came in I thought it was really rather lovely” - - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
“I’ll Be Back” - “when it builds in the chorus and the extra vocals came in I thought it was really rather lovely” - - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Genre:
Acoustic Folk/Country
Record
Label: Barn Door Records
Current
Location: Somerset
Folk
and Country Singer/Songwriter and Musician.
Jemima is the eldest of 4 daughters in a Irish family of 6; they are an extremely musical family and have been singing and playing together for years. They are known as 'The Farey Family' and are slowly becoming more recognized within the area, playing original compositions and traditional folk, gospel and country songs.
Jemima
is climbing her way up into the folk scene gradually, playing at local gigs and
folk clubs. She has been described on more than one occasion as 'one to watch
on the Folk scene'. Her uncomplicated yet delicate guitar work provides the
perfect accompaniment for her strong and mesmerising vocal. Performing live as
a solo act, Jemima is a true and captivating performer and fundamentally what
comes through in her music is her unforced and genuine passion for music and
story telling.
Her
11 track debut album, recorded when she was 17-year old, titled GOOD DAYS (Barn Door, Website) was recorded, produced and mastered by Iain Aird (Camelot
Blessed with a magnificent
singing voice that soars most confidently....I'm sure you will spend many Good
Days listening to this fine debut, for it proclaims Jemima as an extraordinary
new talent
(David Kidman - Fatea Magazine Fatea Records
Listen
to track 9 >> ”The
Raft”
a song written about lovers who will stay together no matter how far apart they
are
CONNECT with Jemima Farey:
Gem Andrews
“Please Forget
Me” – “I really
do like this album, I like it even more when I realized she’s from the UK I
thought she was an American, that’s how great it is, it really is so polished!
….I listened to this CD and I thought what a really wonderful album, I didn’t
know what to expect…..what a lovely surprise, telling you don’t judge a CD by
its cover, a really wonderful album, a gem of an album you might say, yeah!”
- Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Genre:
Alternative Country/ British singer/songwriter
Band
Members: Gem Andrews, Nicky Rushton, Sarah Van Jellie, Gabriel Minnikin,
Bernard Wright, Susanne Lambert.
Home
Town: Liverpool, UK
Current
Location: Newcastle, UK & Berlin, DE
Record
Label: Barbaraville Records / Independent
UK based songwriter and musician Gem Andrews crafts beautiful original songs that cut to the quick and speak to the heart. Her work is firmly rooted in her beloved Alt. Country and Americana traditions, with influences from Kitty Wells to K.D Lang.
Her
own music is firmly rooted in her beloved Alt Country and Americana, with
influences from Kitty Wells, K.D Lang, Neil Young and Townes Van Zandt. She is
also a fine interpreter of other peoples work covering numerous songs by an
array of different writers.
Gem was born in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, Merseyside. A much travelled musician she has taken her music around the UK, Canada and across numerous European countries.
The
Singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist writes and performs alt-country
music with an honesty and rawness that gets straight to the point. Her songs
take the listener on journeys, across countries, continents and oceans,
seamlessly blending the shifting landscapes with the ups and downs of life.
She released her second
album Vancouver, beige is not to be seen, the well oiled lyrical value of one
associated with the city of Liverpool is of great quality, the songs run
smoothly with bristling agitation and the urge to be seen fully; beige is not
an option. Produced by The
Daintees’ Martin Stephenson, the now Berlin based
Ms. Andrews takes listeners on a journey of discovery, the map, the guide and
the plan is all of Ms. Andrews own making and the desire to follow with
complete trust in her well marked footsteps, to be led with abandon, is to give
yourself over to one human being for a short while....With tracks such as Your
Father’s Diary, Heart Like A Wheel, Crimson Tide and the album title track
Vancouver all conspiring with innocent regard for the listener’s appreciation,
Vancouver is a shining example of what it means to appreciate the journey. It
does not have to be bristling with permanent sunshine, the hospitality doesn’t
always require the benefit of being cordial, what it should be is honest and
fulfilling. Vancouver is just that, a peek into the world of situations that
frame what it is to be alive. Liverpool Sound And Vision
The album opens with a delicate piece of folk-flavoured music called "Calling". Andrews sings about an idyllic childhood soundtracked by Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, and the like. But, the pain in her voice lets you know that there’s not going to be a happy ending. The theme of family weaves and threads its way through several songs with "Mother Dear" being especially brittle and beautiful at the same time -- a daughter looks on as an old and sick woman lies "silent and sleeping / towards her grave". It's sung over a jaunty tune that sounds slightly eerie and is sure to tug on even the most calloused heartstrings....Thirty minutes after we hear the first notes, we hear the final track, "Vancouver", which is another broken-hearted love song, but one with more than a little bit of hope attached and the perfect way to end an outstanding album. - No Depression
Listen
to >> "The Calling" taken from the album 'Vancouver' released on
Market Square Records and distributed by Proper Music Distribution.
UK dates:
Wed
October 28, 2015 - Saltaire,
Saltaire United Reformed Church (Victoria Road, West Yorkshire BD18 3LF)
Thurs
Oct 29, 2015 - Homotopia Festival Camp & Furnace (67 Greenland Street,
Liverpool, Lancs L1 0BY) Admission FREE
Fri
Oct 30, 2015 - Live Theatre (Broad Chare,
Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear NE1 3DQ) with Amelia Curran
(Canada)
Sun
November 1, 2015 - The Angel Inn
(Main Street, Corbridge, Northumberland NE45 5LA Tel 01434 632119)
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Hip Hatchet
“Travel Map” - “A musical jack-of-all-trades” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Current
Location: Oregon
Influences:
Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Townes Van Zandt, Guy
Clark, Tom Waits, Mark Kozlek,
Like
many folk songsmiths before him, Hip Hatchet staggers the intersection of
romanticized love and everyday trials. Hip
Hatchet is the project of Philippe
Bronchtein, a one man band who crafts carefully orchestrated, rustic folk
songs about the inner longing for companionship and steadiness. Bronchtein’s
witty lyrics and sincerity allows him to visit these classic folk tropes and
emerge unscathed by the cliches.
Always
a traveling man, once having called Montreal, Vermont, New Jersey, and Portland
home, Bronchtein’s liking for the road and rural America comes through in his
quest to tell the story of every person his meets.
Recently
returned to Portland with a newfound appreciation for home, Hip Hatchet’s songs
compel the listener to think about their definition of home and place.
Like
many folk songsmiths before him, Hip Hatchet staggers the intersection of
romanticized love and everyday trials.
Hip
Hatchet layers on harmony in a way that builds on the carefully crafted sound
to reveal the beauty in our messy, complicated lives.
Self
released on 14 April 2015 his 11 track album HOLD YOU LIKE A HARNESS was recorded in Portland, Oregon at Secret
Society and Jalopy. It was co-produced by Philippe Bronchtein and produced,
engineered and mixed by Tim Shrout and mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion
Mastering. Pedal Steel, Piano and Organ recorded by Raymond Richards In Los
Angeles, California. The attractive artwork came courtesy of Markel Uriu.
Backed by Scott Davis on
guitar, violinist Nathan Crockett and Ty Bailie on keys, parts are also fleshed
out with fuller orchestration, Bronchtein has a throaty, gravelly baritone and
cites Townes, Bob Dylan and Nebraska era Bruce Springsteen as prime influences.
It’s an open and honest work, intimate in its delivery yet still capable of
reaching out to larger audiences, the likes of the storytelling fable David’s
Wolves, the steel laced, tender Words Of Wisdom (“an exhausted pretty woman
drinking in the sun reminded me of how long it’d been since I’d really known
someone”) and the slow-waltzing Cars Look Like Crying, which features the
terrific line “The tires slide slowly as I stumble and wave to take me to a
home full of judgment and men that depend on their cars to cry for them.”,
Excellent -
Folk Radio UK
‘Hold You Like A Harness’ is
a very thoughtful, melancholic and poetic album rooted in folk and Americana
and the heart of a traveling man. Read Full review For The Country Record
This is a crazy play list. v strange. Hunter Hayes, Chris Ledoux, and Myself. http://t.co/VaI26NSPBR
— Phil B. (@HipHatchet) September 27, 2015
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Amy Helm
“Rescue Me”
- “I didn’t know what to expect I’m not familiar with her
music, happy to report it’s a lovely brand new album…. a beautiful album, these
albums fill the gap where the mainstream has gone off a little bit,
every track is beautiful..what a talent lovely voice…...I think she’s really
really good” -
Marie
Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
Band
Members: Amy Helm - Vocals, Mandolin; Byron Isaacs - Bass, Vocals; Dan
Littleton - Guitar, Vocals; David Berger - Drums/Percussion
Home
Town: Woodstock, NY
Record
Label: eOne Music
Amy
Helm began connecting with audiences early in life, playing her first gig in
her early teens in a Manhattan bar and drifting informally through a series of
combos before her father recruited her to join his live band. She also absorbed musical and personal inspiration
from her mother, noted singer/songwriter Libby Titus; and her stepfather,
Steely Dan co-mastermind Donald Fagen, who offered Amy additional opportunities
to find herself as a performer.
Although
the personally charged, organically soulful Didn't
It Rain is her first release under her own name, Amy Helm has been making
music for most of her life. She's already
won widespread praise as a singer, songwriter and live performer, first as a
member of the celebrated alt-country collective Ollabelle and subsequently for
her extensive work with her father,
musical icon Levon Helm, who passed away in 2012.
Blessed
with a commanding, deeply expressive voice and an uncanny songwriting skill
that instinctively draws upon a deep well of American musical traditions, Amy
Helm delivers a timelessly powerful statement with Didn't It Rain.
Didn't
It Rain also marked the final recording sessions of Levon Helm, who acted as
the project's executive producer as well as adding his unmistakable drumming on
three tracks; Levon's distinctive count-off can be heard kicking off Amy's
rousing take on Martha Scanlan's "Spend Our Last Dime."
The
spellbinding dozen-song set is rooted in first-person experience, exploring
universal themes of life, love and loss on such musically and emotionally
resonant originals as the smoldering soul ballad "Rescue Me," the
hushed, lilting "Deep Water," the meditative "Roll Away"
and the stark, haunting "Wild Girl."
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