Showcasing several new folky artists today. Several of them coming from Nasville: Nicki Bluhm (pictured), Emily Scott Robinson, Brennen Leigh and Amanda Shires. Over in Asheville, NC we check out Valorie Miller and Erika Lewis. Amy Speace is from Tucson AZ. We also check out The HawtThrons featuring KP and Johnny Hawthron. Fiver from Toronto have a new album and we check it out as well.
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Drink Till I See Double;
The HawtThrons – All the Right Reasons;
Sophie and The Broken Things – Churches & Bars;
Jamie McDell – Worst Crime;
Jill Jackson – Sweeter Than Honey;
Nicki Bluhm – Fool’s Gold;
Emily Scott Robinson – Old North State;
Gina Sicilia – one Last Tender Moment;
Linda Martell – Old Letter Song;
Brennen Leigh – Riding Off Onto Sunset Boulevard;
Fiver – Song of the Mournful Millionaire;
Linda Hoover – Mama Tears;
Amy Speace – If You Fall;
Erika Lewis – Loser;
Amanda Shires – Hawk For The Dove;
Valorie Miller – Only the killer;
Aoife O’Donovan – Elevators.
Today we start off with the new music from the Texan violin player Amanda Shires. Then we introduce the new blues singer Shemekia Copeland. A star studded line up helps her on the new record, including Steve Cropper, John Prine, Rhiannon Giddens and Emmylou Harris. Jon S. Williams from City of Cool has some new recordings that he sent to us, so we check that out too. Dan Stuart (ex Green On Red) is back with the new record and legendary songwriter and graphic novelist Peter Blegvad is also back with new music. Dot Dash from Washington are back with the new album Proto Retro. We introduce John Brodeur from New York with his Bird Streets and a duet featuring Lia Pamina and Dario Persi from Italy. Nicole Atkins is live in Cleveland.
Several new records today… Kid Congo Powers plays nowadays with The Pink Monkey Birds and they have a new record out called Gorilla Rose. They also have a new single which they split with Hunx and His Punx (which we introduced in our previous epizode). Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy also share the new single. Beastie Boys are back with Hot Sauce Committee Part Two which is their first album with vocals in seven years. New names today are Amanda Shires, a singer songwriter from mythical Lubbock TX, but now based in Nashville. Another band debuts at the Little Lighthouse from over in Nashville – Natural Child. We also have Raphael Saadiq for the first time today. The dude is a famous mainstream pop and hip hop producer, but now he has a new retro funky/soul record called Stone Rollin’ which I can really appreciate.