In your face bluegrass-tinged, alt-country, folk fun! That is the white-hot feel of Rattler, from Black Horse Motel. It’s the first single release from their new six-song EP, And Then You Were Gone (July 2018) out now! This is a song that builds to an emotional frenzy without ever losing the beat. It’s a rhythm that will keep you moving until the last stanza fades. And Then You Were Gone follows up to last year’s Parable, a 5-song EP that saw Black Horse Motel moving a little bit away from…
Read MoreKelly Oliver has been making excellent folk music for a couple of years now with the focus being on folk stories and a decidedly indie-pop delivery. It is an inspired sound and worthy of anyone’s turntable/CD player or digital list. You be the judge. Here is Rio from Kelly’s second full-length, Bedlam (March 2016) to give you a taste of that style. In the past, Ms. Oliver has written mostly her own material, but later this year (in September) she will release her junior effort, Botany Bay, which will contain…
Read MoreI’m not sure when The Loft had its final demise on Serous XM, but I’d already started looking for a replacement to it when the writing was on the wall. Corporate music moguls want formulaic play, zero paid DJ’s and a target audience that is well defined. The Loft was none of those things. Built on a reputation of mixing new and old musical styles together, with DJs that had different tastes and different time-slots so that you could tune in to your favorite mixer if you wanted. The Loft was an oasis in an otherwise boring and pasteurized music…
Read MoreCount me in with the people who are excited that Meg Myers is about to release a new long-player. It feels like a long dry spell between records, (the last long-player from Ms. Myers, Sorry, came out in 2015) but the wait is almost over and if the early single release is any indication, Meg is back with a vengeance. Numb (seen/heard here) is the first single from the forthcoming (at the time of this writing) Take Me To The Disco (July 2018). Myers music is always something wonderful to…
Read MoreLive from Portland, Oregon, comes the wonderful folksy folk of Rebecca McDade and Needle In The Straw from her debut long-player, To Call Home (April 2018). Thanks to my daughter, who caught Rebecca’s performance in a house concert recently, and forwarded her information. An earlier video was languishing in my drafts folder. Why? Well, because the vocal / music balance of her self-produced videos just was wrong and failed to properly tell her story. In short: the mix was wrong. The Rye Room Sessions here, alleviate…
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