Today we check out the newest on singer songwriting scene. Lydia Loveless, Laura Cantrell, Sara Petite, Whitney Rose and Jenny Don’t. We also check out new works from Lindsay Lou from Nashville, Graciehorse from Los Angeles, Canadian singer songwriter Meghan Maike and Elizabeth Moen of Chicago.
Lydia Loveless – Learn To Say No
Sara Petite – God Save the Queen
Lydia Loveless – Poor Boy
Julie and Buddy Miller – The Painkillers Ain’t Workin’
Lindsay Lou – Shame
Brennen Leigh – I’m Still Looking For You
Rosali – If Not For Now
Whitney Rose – Barb Wire Blossom
Graciehorse – By The Light of His White Stetson
Bella White – Numbers
Laura Cantrell – Just Like A Rose
Meghan Maike – Meghan Maike – Redbird
Annie Keating – Keeping Time
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Still As The Night
Elizabeth Moen – That Summer Feeling
BMX Bandits and Dan Penn – That Summer Feeling
We follow Laura Cantrell’s career since the inception of this show and she has a new record out called No Way There From Here. Another band that’s been with us since the first year of this show is Electric Six, although back then their name was Wild Bunch. We watched them go to the top and they have one record a year without breaks almost all the time. The new record is called Magnum. James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand is also back with the new record backed by his band World War IV from Birmingham, AL. The most interesting novelty this time is a new singer songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. His name is Ben Mason. He re-recorded the Zombies classic The Odessey And Oracle and renamed it into The Odessey Odyssey. I think it’s an awesome idea to take one of the most intricate records and show that you are capable of repeating it note to note – it’s a great way to make people pay attention to your own work.
One Hundred Dollars is an americana band from Toronto. They have a third album out called Song of Man, but this is their debut at The Little Lighthouse. DM Bob and The Deficits is another americana band in today’s show, but they draw their main influences from the 80s cow punk. Still, they hail from a very unamerican Hamburg in Germany and DM stands for Deutch Mark. Japanese retro rockers The Routes also debut today at the show with their new record called Alligator. Singing Loins are well known to our visitors and they have a new single out. It makes me very happy to see that Laura Cantrell is also back with a new album filled with Kitty Wells covers.
The new Laura Cantrell’s album deals with means of transportation. Trains, boats, planes… One of the songs on it is Merle Haggard’s Silver Wings and we check out several versions of it in today’s show. We also make two quick runs through the John Hiatt and Hold Steady songbooks, including their brand new albums. The show ends with Danish band Cola Freaks that I saw live last year. They Will be coming back to the USA (and Cleveland) in August.