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Hour
1
(Artist/
Song (album/ label) 1.
Jessica Pearson and The East Wind - Better Bad Decisions (On The Line / Willow
Sound Records) 2.
Jason Michael Carroll - Tell Me Your Name (Diane) 3. Angie K -Honkytonk Bar (GCE Records) Track 5 from the
EP Sun Up To Sundown out April 1, 2022
4. Thomas Buller - 6 Feet Under and Still Going Down 5. Jenny
Tolman - Nothing Left Of You Married In A Honky Tonk (Old Sol Records) 6. Brett
Young - You Didn’t (Single) 🎂 (Birthday 23 March 1981) 7 .Dolly Parton - Big dreams & Faded
Jeans (Run Rose Run/ Butterfly Records) 8.
Mo Pitney - I Like the Old Stuff
Better (Ain’t Lookin’ Back) 🎂 (Birthday 24 March 1993) 9. Meghan Patrick - Cool About It (Heart on
My Glass) 🎂(Birthday 25 March 1987) 10. Lance Carpenter – Sober (The Demo Sessions / Lance Carpenter Music) 11.
The Hawthorns - This One is Ours (Tarot Cards and Shooting Stars/ Mule
Kick Records) 12.
Bernie Nelson - She’s Crazy Bout Me (Ghosts and Angels) 13.
Hailey Whitters - Neon (Raised / Pigasus Records/Songs
& Daughters/Big Loud Records) 14.
Jared Blake - Orange Keychain 15. Juna N Joey - ’Til Your Heart Breaks
Hour
2
(Artist/
Song (album/ label)
1.Normand
Borland - She doesn’t Look That Lonely to Me (Single) 2.
Ali Sperry - In Front of Us (In Front of Us/ Ali Sperry released March
11, 2022) 3.Shannon
Slaughter - Common Ground (Single; Elite Circuit Records) 4.
Allison Forbes - Dead Men Tell No Tales 5. Nate Barnes - Right About Me (Single; Quartz
Hill Records) 6.
Donna Ulisse - Turn My Heart (Livin’ Large/ Billy Blue Records) 7.
Joe Nichols -Why Can’t She (Good
Day for Living/ Quartz Hill Records) 8. Deborah Allen - Blue Collar Baby (The Art Of Dreaming) 9. Kenny Chesney - The Tin Man 🎂(Birthday 26 March 1968) 10. Erica Sunshine Lee – Fragile (Same Ship Different Day) 11.
Mark Daniel - Franklin 12. Dawn Beyer - Oh, What a love
(Single; No Label Records Inc) 13. Aaron
Lewis - Goodbye Town (Frayed
At Both Ends (Video Deluxe)/ Big Machine Label Group, LLC) 14. Brennen
Leigh - If Tommy Duncan's
Voice Was Booze (Single / Obsessed with the West /Signature Sounds Recordings) 15.Michaela
Anne -Who You Are (Single/ Yep Roc Records)
New
To The Show
Angie K (Angie Keilhauer)
Angie K is
shaking up Nashville with her fresh blend of hard hitting country with a nod to
her Latin roots. After her run on Team Blake on NBC’s The Voice, country artist
Jake Owen and his team convinced Angie to move to Nashville. They helped fund
her first single in town, ‘Real Talk’, written by Jesse Frasure,
Nicolle Galyon, Hillary Lindsey, and Thomas Rhett. The bilingual smash
catapulted her on the country scene by making her a ‘Highway Find’ on Sirius XM
the Highway. A year later , Angie was named one of three Artists for CMA’s
artist development program led by Kix Brooks, Mary Hilliard Harrington, and
Marion Kraft.
She released
the single “Country Is as Country Does” on Oct 8, 2022
The El Salvador
born and Georgia raised country artist also released her new single ‘Sunsets’,
which was immediately added to mega-playlists ‘Country Risers’ and ‘New in
Country’ on Apple Music, 'Breakthrough Country' on Amazon, as well as ‘New
Music Nashville’ on Spotify.
Latest track “Honkytonk
Bar”, written by Angie K and Marissa Boucher, previews her EP Sun Up
To Sundown out April 1, 2022
Angie has
opened for artists like Jake Owen, Tanya Tucker, Sammy Kershaw, Trace Adkins,
Melissa Etheridge, and more!
CONNECT with Angie K:
st three
singles have each hit over a million streams+ since
Jared
Blake
Jared
Blake was raised on watermelons and rock ‘n roll. Growing up in the small town
of Star City, Arkansas, he always had dreams of performing on the big stage.
That didn’t stop him from taking his time growing up and learning everything he
could about the music business, including songwriting and playing multiple
instruments. He realizes that the music industry is forever changing, and he
likes to change and grow with it.
He landed his first break with the industry giant Sony/ATV and Bob
DiPiero’s Love Monkey Music, as a songwriter for the nation’s largest
publishing group. and more.
In
2011, Jared found himself on a new adventure, appearing on what turned out to
be a #1 rated show on NBC, The Voice.
Landing
on Blake Shelton’s team to guide him, he did what any regular ol’
country boy would do – he rocked it.
He was just as happy on
stage alone with his acoustic guitar, with 14-million viewers watching him sing
“Not Ready To Make Nice” by the Dixie Chicks, as he was performing the rock
tune “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon, in a guitar-throwing, full-out passionate
display. All of his performances have appeared in the charts worldwide more
than 56 times and reaching as high as #16 on the iTunes charts.
Jared was featured in magazines such as People and Rolling Stone,
on television morning shows, and on radio stations syndicated across the
nation.
Jared’s debut EP Til Morning Light was released along with the
music video for his single Stomp in October 2014. The video was
picked up by VEVO and the single ran on NBC’s The Today Show with Kathie Lee
and Hoda in November 2014.
His new single, “Orange Keychain” is being promoted
to country radio, his first since 2019. Read
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Ali Sperry
Ali Sperry,
when faced with a year of trauma, racial reckoning, and downright worldwide
existential crisis, did what she has always done — turned inward and wrote
songs that channeled, mirrored and ultimately DISTILLED those cultural currents
— distilled is the operative word, here, as she and her producer, Jamie Dick,
wisely avoid long-form folk indulgence for streamlined contours and razor hooks
that feel more rock/pop than folk, and are fairly begging for a decent car
stereo and an open road.
Ali, in her
singing and writing, is the people’s champ of the “less is more" ethos.
There is a slight echo of Laurel Canyon in the sonics of the record, and,
always, the confident under-singing of a woman who knows her words and melodies
willhappily do the heavy lifting.
Her 10-track Country/Americana
self-released album IN FRONT OF US
(Ali Sperry) was released on March 110, 2022 (See Album Review americana-uk ). The album features an absolute
murderers’ row of beloved Nashville players, including Jen Gunderman,
Audley Freed, Sadler Vaden, Joe Pisapia, Owen Biddle, Kai Welch, Kristin Weber,
Rich Hinman, and a slew of other bright lights. It’s a testament to
both their instincts and their respect for Sperry’s presence and voice, that it
never feels like a cavalcade of assembled star-turns, but a real love-in of
massively talented musical souls.
She has a
Nashville release show planned in April and currently firming up other tour
dates for the spring and summer, including a UK tour. She shared “I got to tour
in the UK right before the pandemic and it was one of my favorite tours yet.
I’m very eager to go back there and share the new record” . 11 QUESTIONS TO A NASHVILLE MUSICIAN:
ALI SPERRY
CONNECT with Ali Sperry:
Dawn Beyer
Here to feel, to love, to give, to be awake for ALL OF IT
Dawn
Beyer is an independent USCountry/Indie & Alternative singer-songwriter #nolabelrecords
Singles:
"Vulnerable" released 19 June 2019
"Fall in Love" released 15 Oct 2021
Singer/Songwriter
"Wasted on you (feat. Jonny Houlihan)
released 12 Feb 2022
"Kissin In The Kitchen" released 13
Feb 2022 (This
song is just light and fun and I like the reminder to stop and take the time
for all the kisses).
"Oh, What a love" released 14 Feb
2022
Albums:
PLAYIN' WITH FIRE released 24 April 2020
Country
DEMONS released 31 May 2021 Singer/Songwriter
Indie &
Alternative
She
has an album in the works
called “SONGS FOR YOU” inspired by fan stories. The writing process called for
vulnerability on the fans part as they shared their. Initial plans are to get
back in the studio with this project in August and to release it so time in
2023 .
In
February she announce that she was getting back On The Road Again playing small,
intimate, VIP ONLY listening shows. “Each show will be unique in that I have
chosen cool spots in each state/city to hold this intimate concert with just me
and my guitar (and a few on the keys) and notebook of songs”.
Hillary Scott – My Safe Haven | Album: Hillary
Scott & The Scott Family (28 July 2016) Amazon UKBIRTHDAY 🎂 (April 1)
Jim Ed Brown - How I Love Them Old Songs (1972) |
Album: Best Of Jim Ed Brown/Jim Ed & Helen Greatest (2-On-1 Roughtrade) Amazon UKBIRTHDATE 🎂(April 1, 1934 died June 11,
2015 (aged 81))
Runaway June - Wild West (Single;
11 Aug 2017) Amazon UKBIRTHDAY 🎂 Jennifer Wayne (April
1, 1982)
Hannah Johnson - Gotta Get You from That Crowd |
Album: Shaken Amazon
UK
Billy Dean – A Seed | Album: A Man of Good
Fortune (28 Apr 2014) BIRTHDAY 🎂 (April 2, 1962)
Ashley McBryde - Andy (I Can't Live Without You) |
Album: Girl Going Nowhere (30 Mar 2018) Amazon UK
Emmylou Harris, Mary Ann Kennedy & Pam Rose - Where Have They Gone | Album: A Tribute to John D Loudermilk (15 Sep
2017) Amazon
UKBIRTHDAYS 🎂 Emmylou Harris (April 2, 1947) /
John D Loudermilk (March 31, 1934)
Homer Hart – Buckle Up (Single)
Kacey Musgraves - Love Is A Wild Thing | Album: Golden
Hour (29 March 2018) Amazon
UK
Adam Eckersley & Brooke
McClymont – Train Wreck | Album: Adam & Brooke (9 Feb 2018) Amazon UK Adam
EckersleyBIRTHDAY 🎂(April 4, 1982)
The Judds - Mama He's
Crazy | Album: Wynonna & Naomi | Obituary spin, writer Nashville
Songwriters Hall Of Fame Member Kenny O'Dell Passes At Age 73 Steve Gatlin – You Beat All
I've Ever Seen | Album: Love Will Carry (August 16, 1994)
Finbar Furey – Annabelle |
Album: Don't Stop This Now (30 March 2018) Amazon UK
Phillipa Hanna – Getting on
With Life | Album: Come Back Fighting (24 Nov 2017) Amazon UK
Montgomery Gentry – Better Me |
Album: Here's to You (2 Feb 2018) AmazonBIRTHDATE 🎂 Troy Gentry (April
5; died Sept 8, 2017)
Mary Battiata & Little Pink - Sun That I Could Count On | Album: The
Heart, Regardless (15 June 2017) Amazon UK - UK iTunes
Snyder Family Band – The King | Album: The Life We Know (10 March 2017) Amazon UK
Don Gibson - Why Don’t You Love Me BIRTHDATE 🎂 (April 3, 1928 died Nov
17, 2003 (aged 75))
CeCe Winans – Why Me | Album: Let Them Fall in Love (3 Feb 2017) Album UK
Josh Abbott Band - Take Me Out to a Dancehall | Album: Dancehall
Dreamin': a Tribute to Pat Green (5 April 2018) Amazon UKBIRTHDAY Pat Green (April 5, 1972)
Courtney Marie Andrews - Two Cold
Nights in Buffalo | Album: May Your Kindness Remain (23 March 2018) Amazon UK
Merle Haggard - From Graceland To The Promised
Land | Album: From the King to the Barrooms (Feb 2008 Humphead) Amazon UKBIRTHDATE 🎂 (April 6, 1937; died April 6, 2016 (aged 79))
Leslie Satcher and the Electric Honey Badgers – Crown | Album: 2 Days in Muscle Shoals (9 March 2018) Amazon UK
Steve Young – Seven Bridges Road Obituary Outlaw Country Pioneer Steve Young died at
73 on March 17th. The Georgia native was a noted contributor to the Outlaw
movement in the 1970s
Cyndi Lauper – Heartaches By The Number New Single
“Take
Me Back” - "Really impressed, another lovely duo to come out of the UK, their
voices blend so nicely, I think they've got a lovely sound" - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire
The
Black Feathers are an award-winning duo from Gloucestershire in England. The
perfectly paired voices of Ray Hughes and Sian Chandler intertwine effortlessly
to create a sound combining elements of folk, roots, alt-country and americana.
They
married in 2012, which also marked the beginning of their musical adventure as
The Black Feathers. They designed the band logo on honeymoon and the music soon
followed. This close collaboration became the backbone of The Black Feathers’
sound.
Whether playing to a 1,500 strong audience at the Colston Hall in
Bristol, or to 80 crammed in to the Green Note in London, The Black Feathers
give an intimate performance that draws the listener in to a special, strong
and unique bond between two people.
They
have toured in Europe and in the USA including a sell out show at the Bluebird
Cafe in Nashville, Tennessee.
2014
saw the release of Strangers We Meet, the duo's debut 5 track EP. It gained
national airplay on BBC Radio2, as well as warm reviews from national music
press, including an interview in The Sunday Times. The Telegraph also listed it
as one of the best albums of the year.
They
released their album SOAKED TO THE BONE onFeb 26, 2016. All songs are written by
Sian Chandler and Ray Hughes
except
track 9 written by Bob Dylan and it was recorded at Strawhouse Studios in
Oxford, England
Like
their shows, this album is mesmerising and stunning in equal measure. 11 songs
in total, 10 of them written by Sian Chandler and Ray Hughes themselves, the
other written by Bob Dylan. And when I say that the Black Feathers own
compositions stand shoulder to shoulder with Mr Zimmerman's "Make You Feel
My Love", then this really is no exaggeration and gives you a good
indicator of the strength and depth of their songwriting quality. This album
ebbs and flows effortlessly, from the sublimely delicate "Homesick"
to the harder edged "Blind" and from the breathtaking acoustic space
of "Winter Moves In" to the slightly bluesier vocal inflections of
"Spider And The Fly". There isn't a note wasted, nor a word out of
place. It's a wonderfully balanced album that immediately insinuates its way
into the listeners (sub)consciousness, and at time of writing shows no
inclination to leave anytime soon.
"Soaked
To The Bone" is an artistic triumph for a duo of undeniable talent - and
that talent is there for all to see in terms of musicality, vocals and
songwriting. - Fatea Records Review
