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Red Line Roots Highlights Kyle Daniel’s “Born to Lose”

There is a certain grit and honesty that cakes itself onto Kyle Daniel’s voice. Struggles and hardships line the margins of his lyrical palette. Hitting on the upsides and detriments of being a touring musician. Coping with long drives and longer nights. The emotion in his voice an authentic take on grasping with those questions. The question “What’s there to say when you’ve conceded to the hardships of life?” Its something that Daniel wrestles with this question throughout his sophomore EP (out March 15), aptly titled “What’s There to Say?” And for the heaviness of the content buried within his songs, the guy has a knack for giving it buoyancy with riffing guitars and a vocal that could gnaw its way through steel.

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Boo Ray Gives Background to “Gone Back Down to Georgia” with Red Line Roots

“I’ve been going to and leaving Georgia since I was a teenager. There’s an indigenous and regional sound of players and songwriters in Georgia and that music just got all the way to me; hit me right in the middle. I went down to Georgia to get off the damned mountain when I was a teenager; went out to California to get out of the south; got homesick for sweet tea and grits and now I’m in Nashville… So yeah, maybe this song’s kind of in the spirit of that particular Georgia singer-songwriter writing device of being the most vulnerable, wounded part of yourself, offering it up in sacrifice and in celebration for anyone to identify with” – Boo Ray

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The Deep Hollow talks with Red Line Roots about single “Freedom Street” off of their upcoming record

 

The Deep Hollow
Micah Walk: “Freedom Street is about homelessness. It’s one of those songs that almost feels like it wrote itself. There’s this street in our hometown called Freedom Drive with a busy intersection that’s a common place for folks who are down on their luck to see if drivers sitting at a red light might offer some help. Cardboard signs saying things like “Jesus saves” and “Veteran, anything helps” reveal these little hints of their stories. My parents took my brother and sister and I to our very small town Baptist church every Sunday and religion is definitely a reoccurring theme in my songs, even though I question it now. And like a lot of artists right now, my work is certainly impacted by the current political climate. Both religious and political overtones are thick in Freedom Street – from the woman who doesn’t need saving because she’s certain her faith is all she really needs, to the veteran who is struggling with being back home in a country that doesn’t seem to appreciate his sacrifices, with a street called Freedom Drive as the setting.”

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Red Line Boots Presents Singled Out: Charlie Overbey “Slip Away”

Charlie Overbey
Charlie Overbey

From: Los Angeles, CA
Song: “Slip Away” featuring Miranda Lee Richards
Latest record: Broken Arrow coming out April 20, 2018

What about it: “The song was written right after losing someone in my deep inner circle that was ruled to be an accident but to me seemed a suicide. I think that in times of despair, people tend to find warmth in darkness which is a trick of the mind as referred to in my favorite line in the song “And then you gimme’ that look / yeah you gimme that look, like your never comin’ back again / like you’ve crawled down into a deep dark hole / and it’s warm like the house of a friend.” A mind is a strange place which can turn dark to darker or vice versa with ease. 

“Slip Away” is definitely one of the deepest songs I’ve ever written and a personal favorite.” – Charlie Overbey

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Derek Hoke Interviews with Red Line Roots

Derek Hoke
Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins

Derek Hoke will probably get a statue in East Nashville someday…well, at least in our eyes he should. The singer-songwriter and community builder has been the curator of the renowned Two Dollar Tuesdays at East Nashville’s The 5 Spot for 7 years and running and embedded himself fully into the every expanding landscape of Americana and Roots music in town and beyond.

This month Hoke celebrated the release of his latest effort “Bring the Flood”, an introspective look at the world around him. An exploration in how an artist can make a shit storm of emotion and turmoil digestable to a broader audience and a success in the fullest extent of the term. Laying out a well balanced sonic palette of steel driven roots and tele twang, but its truly Derek Hoke’s voice that shines brightest across the breadth of its 10 tracks. Smooth but cutting in all the right ways, it leaves you with a lasting mark and begs for a revisit again and again.

We had the pleasure of catching up with Derek to talk about this latest release, the blossoming state of community through his eye’s in East Nashville and that special evening that went from tumbleweeds to top notch entertainment in his able hands.

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Red Line Roots reviews Aaron Lee Tasjan’s new record In The Blazes

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It doesn’t really matter what comes out of Aaron Lee Tasjan’s mouth, there is simply an inherent likeability about this guy and his voice. You a fiery red right wing, hell bent on having your guns and your Jesus? Well, even when Tasjan sings “you got so many guns, you could start a war. I though that’s what you had Jesus for”, you will probably be bopping your head along to his swagger and style. He has an innate ability to take very obviously political, taboo and slightly ‘blue’ subjects and add a flavor to them that makes a point, but also grooves like all holy hell. I love this man. READ MORE…