2022-03-13
Marie’s CMR
Country Show (Sunday 13th March 2022)
Find out all the different ways to listen to the show HERE
Hour 1
(Artist/ Song (album/ label)
J W Roldon - Where My Money Goes (Hotdisc 279 / March 2022) More information at rwroldan.com
Jenny Tolman - World's Smallest Town (Married in a Honky Tonk/ Old Sol Records) * featured album * See Blog Feature
New To The Show
Track Dogs
Madrid-based
Folk-Americana-Latino group, Throw us a bone!
Madrid-based
acoustic four piece featuring cajón (flamenco box drum), guitar, banjo, piano,
ukulele, bass and trumpet with four-part harmonies.
Where to
Now? is as much a
battle cry as it is Track Dogs’ new album title. The four Madrid-based lads are
as determined as ever to win over the whole UK. This, their first tour with
this recording is also their statement to fans that despite the disruption of
the last two years, these dogs are neither sleeping nor lying.
Started during
lockdown 2020, this collection of songs embraces introspection balanced with
the undeniable optimism and rhythm that has opened the doors of venues and
festivals to Track Dogs.
Where to Now?, Track Dogs’ 9th studio album, delivers 12 songs with 12 musical guests including Cathy Jordan of Dervish fame and the English folk-scene favorites, Banter. The album also features some lush string arrangements from both sides of the Atlantic. From the riproaring finale of “Donna Lola” to the intimate duo of Garrett Wall and trumpeter-singer, Howard Brown on the title track, the Where to Now? tour promises new depth as well as Track Dogs’ signature fun and polish.
Watch Track
Dogs - "Where to Now?" (Official Videoclip) published March 11, 2022
Track Dogs have UK dates in March more information HERE
CONNECT Track Dogs:
Kate Ellis
"Wryly reflective, sweetly melodic, touchingly compassionate, warm-hearted." - MAVERICK MAGAZINE (****)
"Quite simply a superb debut album and one that announces the arrival of a genuine talent." - AMERICANA UK (8/10)
Kate Ellis is an Americana singer-songwriter, who was born in Louisiana, grew up in New York and is now based in London, England. Having performed in festivals and concerts across the USA, UK and Europe, the timeless sound of her music reflects her love of classic singer-songwriters from Gram Parsons and Gillian Welch, to Mary Chapin Carpenter, Leonard Cohen and Nanci Griffith.
Kate’s southern country-folk roots come from her father, an important early musical influence who once played guitar with Hank Williams on the famous Louisiana Hayride, where Elvis and Johnny Cash started out.
These influences were explored recently in a ten-episode series of online videos called ‘My Dad’s Records’, in which Kate shared a personal perspective on ten of her father’s albums, from Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie to Josh White and Bob Dylan, that most shaped the music she loves and writes.
The process of making those videos - which have now been viewed over 35,000 times online and shared widely on social media - was partly the inspiration for the release of her own album on vinyl.
Kate’s emotional and seductive vocals take you into a world of private beauty, reflection and feelings; the music is always intimate and evocative – you listen and want to be there. A journalist for the Observer described “hauntingly beautiful songs”, while BBC Radio country DJ Mike Shepherd said “she clearly has a huge future ahead of her”, with No Depression describing her debut album ‘Carve Me Out’ as “an album of great warmth and feeling that just makes you press repeat. Definitely worthy of recognition.”
Her critically acclaimed debut (2017) was released independently through River Rose Records, tracks from the set were streamed over 150,000 times by fans all over the world, and with Kate increasingly being seen as a key part of the UK’s vibrant live Americana circuit, this story is just beginning.
She released
her single 'I Believe' on Feb 23, 2018. Follow up single include
"Another Way" (July 2, 2021), "Bluebirds and
Rye" (Aug 20, 20211) and 'Wonderland" (Oct 15,
2021)
Her 10 track
album SPIRALS (River Rose Records) dropped on Jan 7, 2022. Kate and John
Reynolds connected strongly over a desire to capture the emotional truth in the
music. John said: “Miraculously, out of lockdown came this beautiful album by
Kate Ellis. She is a unique songwriter and deeply emotional singer.” Kate
added: “It was incredible working with John. He is a true artist who had a
powerful emotional feel for the songs and an amazing vision of how to bring
them to life.”
The theme of
Spirals reflects Kate’s attempts “to find a new understanding of ways to cope
with the demons and dramas that can take over our minds.” It’s about getting
lost in the maze of obstacles and pain we encounter in life – how we go around
in circles inside our head, or try to get back things we can’t, or solve a pain
there’s no solution to. And it’s about getting out of these spirals to a more
peaceful place on the other side. More info Track by Track
CONNECT with Kate Ellis:
Jessica Sole
Jessica Sole is
a country artist and songwriter based in Shelburne, Ontario, Canada.
Jessica Sole is
ready to hit the ground running. Working alongside CMAOntario Producer of the
Year Nominee Shawn Moore, Jessica has crafted a fresh, new sound and is excited
to share it with the world.
After investing
5 years to forward her career, Jessica is well educated in the music arts and
received a Bachelor Degree in Music from Humber College in 2020.
Having
influences like Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, and Taylor Swift she wears
her inspirations on her sleeve; but the storytelling in her lyrics and her
smooth vocals give Jessica’s music a unique and original feel.
Jessica Sole
hit the airwaves in February with her newest single, “Break My Heart
Again” off the heels of a solid 2021 with singles, “Think of Us”
and “If Momma Raised Him Right”.
Relatable to
many, “Break My Heart Again” voices the ‘what ifs’ that come
along with replaying a relationship. It really is a good reminder that picking
it apart and trying to put it back together won’t change the outcome.
Jessica says
“‘Break My Heart Again’ has a way of making you feel heartbroken, reminiscing
on the good and the bad, even if you’ve been single for years.”
Coming off the
heels of a solid 2021 with singles, “Think of Us” and “If Momma Raised Him
Right”, Sole is setting up 2022 to be just as big.
CONNECT with Jessica Sole:
Mary English
Mary English began taking vocal lessons at the age of five. Her parents started her on piano lessons when she saw her brother going to his drum lessons each week. That lead her to get involved in school where she landed her first solo role in third grade as Gretel from the Sound of Music. It was that role that made her fall in love with performing and signing where she went on to appear in numerous theatre and dance productions, including the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte.
She also started dance lessons when she was only three years old where she performed in everything from the Nutcracker to Sleeping Beauty.
When she had an injury at 14 years old, she had to slow down the intensity of her training, so she began focusing on fashion and music She’s been recording music ever since.
Mary English released her first singles in
2013, including “At It Again”, which was her first music video
that amassed almost 120,000 views on YouTube.
She released four more singles in 2014, two singles in 2015 and two in
2016.
She lived in
New York City for a six-week summer ballet intensive. at the Gelsey Kirkland
Academy and Chautauqua where she trained under two of the most prestigious
ballerinas, Gelsey Kirkland and Patricia McBride. She also lived in Los Angeles
for a year to pursue music and acting before she went off to college to earn
degrees in Marketing and Management.
While in college, she fronted the band Mary English & Devine Street
where they played everything from pop to country to rock throughout South
Carolina.
In 2017, she released her BRIGHT LIGHT EP featuring “Boy Crazy” that has over 73,000 streams on Spotify.
In 2017, she
also released her rendition of “Oh Holy Night” and in 2018 she released a
Christmas EP titled “At Christmas”.
In 2018, she
also released two more singles and followed that up in 2019 with three more
singles and her final single, “Are You?” in 2020. She released
single, “Love Me Tonight”, on Oct 29, 2021.
New single 'In
The End' was promoted in Europe on the Hotdisc 278 and after 6
weeks on the chart it has reached No.18 (chart dated March 13, 2022)
CONNECT with Mary English:
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