Tyler Lyle is one of my favorite singer-songwriters out there right now. He’s a lyricist of the highest order and he’s got an uncanny ability to make you feel things with his songs in a way that no one else can do. Here’s …
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Great Divide – Great Divide
Pianos and horns, man! The Great Divide self-titled album is a stunner from start to finish. I stumbled across them perusing the weekly releases on Spinner a few weeks back and was just shocked to hear them. It’s a refined sound that will …
Betty Harrigan – Full Circle
Betty Harrigan and CDBaby, 2013. Betty Harrigan: http://www.bettyharriganmusic.com/ Betty Harrigan has a history with Irish traditional music that involves Feis competitions, solo work, and the St. Eugene’s Ceilidh Band, among others. Harrigan has performed on radio and television, across Europe and in local sessions …
David Mayfield Parade – Good Man Down
From the first notes of “Love Will Only Break Your Heart” listeners will know this is a country album through and through. While Mayfield’s music can be, at times, some pretty amazing bluegrass, this album is for the most part “old country.” It’s …
Free Music Friday! Hem, The Riverside, Levi Weaver
Happy Free Music Friday everyone! Today, we’re going to shine the spotlight on a few different kinds of artists. Hem Hem is a Brooklyn based folk band that released their debut album in 1999, which was in a different millennium. Their new, five …
Mel Washington – Whiskey Bent
Mel Washington is an amazing blues musician. This video, from the very start, is more than enough to prove that. With a voice like that and lyrics like “Just because I’m alive doesn’t mean I’ve ever lived”, it’s easy to see why Washington …
Wake Owl – Wild Country EP
“What will become of the truth when we keep it in? Things we don’t remember when they ask us when. We did the things that we learned we shouldn’t do again. What wasn’t learned from mistakes, we will make them.” These opening lyrics …
Jeremiah Craig on Finding a Studio
We asked Jeremiah Craig to give us some step by step information about his process of recording an album. Here’s the latest step in locating the studio which met his specs. Congrats to him! While you’re there on YT, give our page a …
The Barefoot Movement – No Rain (Blind Melon Cover)
One of our favorite unheralded bluegrass groups here at EarToTheGround Music is The Barefoot Movement, a 4 piece band from Tennessee and the Carolinas. The first came to our attention a year and a half ago with their debut and recently finished up …
Contest Winner – JARED KEIM Artist Interview
Jared Keim is an emerging pop artist. His cover of “Wayfaring Stranger” won the pop category in our YouTube Battle of the Bands we hosted earlier this year. For his month of free press, Jared elected to do an interview with us. We …
