This week Hammel and Casey introduce Local Artist of the Week, Fulton Lee. You’ll also hear tracks from Kelly Hoppenjans, Krantz and more great local acts playing around town this week. Tune in at every Monday from 6:15pm to 8:00pm for The615! Special thanks to our sponsors at Daddy’s Dogs, and Zero to 60 by AGD. READ MORE…
Sweden’s Sofia Talvik released her latest album, Paws of a Bear, back in September, participated in our Americana Around the World segment this week, and has coordinated with DittyTV for the world premiere of her new video of “Siren Song.”
As for the album, Talvik has created a mellow, indie-folk, 10-song masterpiece that’s wistful and melancholy. With acoustic instrumentation and a haunting pedal steel, the music elicits warmth and emotion, providing a wonderful backdrop for Talvik’s sweet and stunning vocals.
Singer-songwriter Jeff Crosby is premiering his new song “Laramie” exclusively for readers of The Boot. Press play below to listen to the song, which Crosby calls “almost too personal.”
Like all great Americana songs, “Laramie” finds its origins in a relationship gone bad. As its title might indicate, it takes both sonic and lyrical inspiration from the sparse vibes of Wyoming’s capital city. “I stayed in Laramie with an ex-girlfriend, and we got a cheap hotel, went out on the town, hit a bunch of dive bars in the freezing cold,” Crosby tells The Boot. “When we split up, I found myself wishing we could go back there. I guess the idea is that, when you really love someone, it doesn’t really matter where you are, as long as you’re together.”
Singer-songwriter Jeff Crosby is premiering his new song “Laramie” exclusively for readers of The Boot. Press play below to listen to the song, which Crosby calls “almost too personal.”
Like all great Americana songs, “Laramie” finds its origins in a relationship gone bad. As its title might indicate, it takes both sonic and lyrical inspiration from the sparse vibes of Wyoming’s capital city. READ MORE…
Karen Pittelman returns to her roots on Guaranteed Broken Heart: gothic summonings and Jewish country music. Pittelman, the frontwoman for Karen & the Sorrows, has been a leading light in the queer country movement. Her long-standing concert series, the Gay Ole Opry has created a network of queer country and roots artists across the world. Capitalizing on their presence at this year’s AmericanaFest, Pittelman used the opportunity to launch the Country Music Against White Supremacy initiative.
Sara Melson’s graceful, buoyant folk-pop has always tackled life’s heavier stuff, and somewhere between their doe-eyed vulnerability and steely-eyed resolve, her songs seems to lighten the load of whatever baggage you’re toting.
The inevitability of change is the topic on the table in her new single, “Same River.” Here, the songwriter cribs from Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who wrote: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.” Says Melson: “By the time you’ve lived long enough, you understand that the only constant in life, truly, is change. I was sitting in the back seat of the car, my parents in the front, and it hit me — that they would be gone one day, and how I’ve been behind them in that back seat over the course of what feels like so many different lifetimes. Right in that moment — I don’t even know what they were talking about up there — my dad turned to my mom and said, ‘Yeah, well, you know… You’ll never step into the same river twice’. That was one of those light bulb moments for me as a songwriter.”