A lush sound and a lovely vocal melody elevate ‘Some Days’ by the band Wayne Graham, led by brothers Kenny and Hayden Miles. The band, named after the brothers’ characterful grandfathers, has put out six albums and an EP, honing their blend of roots genres over the years. READ MORE…
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
Dream Machines – How Long
Alicia Keys, Jill Scott – Jill Scott
Stephie James – Where the Sage Grows
Rise Against – Broken Dreams, Inc.
The Exbats – Revolution All the Time
IDLES – Model Village
Wanderwild – Not Buying
GF Anon – Soliloquy at the Armory
Jesse Harris – If You Can
Max B – Goodman
Emergency Tiara – Summer Lover
Karaoke – Lo Hi
Emily Blue – Trump.
Vita and the Woolf – Mess Up
Emby Alexander – Morality of Accuracy in Photojournalism
Melted Bodies – Club Anxious
Vampsy – My Kind of People
Hammered Satin – Avalanche
Lauren Lakis – Fear of God
Laura Jean Anderson – You
Teenage Halloween – Holes
Ras G – Snow (Spacebase RMX)
Arman Hammer – Charms
Scott Hardware – Joy
The Aces – I Can Break Your Heart Too
Kllo- Somehow
Entry – Your Best Interest
Teeth – Writhe
Lime Cordiale – On Our Own
TABACCO – Centaur Skin (of Black Moth Super Rainbow)
Gulch- Lie Deny Sanctify
The Ninth Wave – I’m Only Going to Hurt You
Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
Stephie James – Where the Sage Grows
Tyler Childers – Long Violent History
David Quinn – Born to Lose
Father John Misty – To S
Tom Freund – Fallen Angel 2020
Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
Tender Creature – Coming Down
Wayne Graham – Some Days (K&F Records)
Laura Rabell – The Highway
The Savants of Soul – Out in the Distance
Molly Parden – Kitchen Table
The Mallett Brothers Band – Lighter
Joshua Hyslop – Someday
John Calvin Abney – Shine Like a Friend
Ross Cooper – Hello Sunshine
Brandon Stansell – Supposed To Be
Michelle Brooke – Other Side of Truth
Brian Revels & the Heat Lightning – The Fall
Kyle Daniel – Hollerin’ Hills
Emily Duff – We Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Ukulena, Henry Wagons – My Secret
Laura Jean Anderson – You
Raye Zaragoza – They Say
Bonnie Whitmore – Fine
Sam Morrow – Money Ain’t a Thing
Columbia Jones – Tourist Town
Bill Fay – Filled With Wonder Once Again
The Secret Sisters – Cabin (New West Records)
Ben Seretan – Power Zone
Gasoline Lollipops – Get Up!
Waylon Payne – Sins of the Father
Matthew Rieger, Lindsay Lou – One More Chance
The Savants of Soul are an up-and-coming group clearly attached to the energetic roots rather than pain of soul and Southern jazz, and all the better for it. From singles “Son Be Strong” and “Old Ways” in their brand new first self-titled LP, to previous EP or live release numbers, “Breezy Sunday” and “Second Chance Lover” on, they explode with energetic hope reminiscent of Sam and Dave, and bass lines that guide a brand of music that could get away with being purely R&B or jazz in this day & age of bleeding styles and available streaming.
The dark and lonely recesses of a mind in solitude have been explored by many a folk singer. So too have conflicts between faith and doubt, God and the Devil, good and evil — and various scramblings of which gets lined up with what.
So by rights, Zach Seibert’s band E.Z. Shakes, which concerns itself with all of the above, shouldn’t feel so singular. But “The Spirit” — as it’s performed intimately here in front of Jarod Charzewski The Band Shell installation at the St. Andrews branch of the Richland Library, and as it appears with more echoing grandeur on the group’s forthcoming and identically titled second LP — proves once more that there’s just something about Seibert and company that makes them distinct from so many other artists who tread similar ground.
Kudos to those artists who have managed to get some work done despite the political strife and pandemic lockdowns rocking the US this year. Nat Puff — who goes by the stage name Left at London — has been one of them. Puff’s musical output this year has been prodigious: a double-sided single (Jenny Durkan Resign in Disgrace), an EP of cover songs (This One’s For the Milfs), a couple of additional songs and singles to be incorporated into future albums, and now the six-song EP Transgender Street Legend: Volume 2. READ MORE…