Fans of breathtaking guitar picking and subtle, penetrating lyrics will adore the latest offering of Brooklyn artist Nathan Reich. Sometimes people ask me how I find amazing artists like Nathan. The truth in his case is through Crackerfarm’s videos of Nathan on YouTube. …
Category: Acoustic
Griffin House – The Guy That Says Goodbye To You Is Out Of His Mind
Griffin House is a pretty good songwriter. This song, one of my favorite love songs, is a particularly well written one. It’s an oldie but a goodie. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnlrXza57o]
John Fullbright – From The Ground Up
Continuing with my early 2013 theme of “albums that belonged on my best of 2012 list”, John Fullbright’s From The Ground Up is a sterling example of a singer-songwriter being more than that, an album that transcends what one man can typically do. From …
Ben Abraham – Timberline (Emmylou Harris cover)
An awesome Aussie acoustic artist (see what I did there, alliteration fans?) covering a great American songwriter and performer… how could we pass it up? This is an incredible multiple listen delight. Ben Abraham’s style is nothing short of brilliant, easy, and so …
Joshua Hyslop – Where the Mountain Meets the Valley
Every time we do a year end, best of list, we inevitably leave albums and songs off of our list. Sometimes it takes us months to hear those albums, other times, like this time, it takes us a day. Joshua Hyslop is an …
Artist Interview: Josh Wintrup
Josh Wintrup has a blues-influenced finger picking style that many people will find quite intriguing. He was kind enough to digitally “sit down” with us across the pond and answered a few questions about his music. We highly encourage you to check out …
Micah Turbitt – Oh Come Oh Come Emanuel
This is going to be the last Christmas song I’ll post this year, but I doubt it will be my last Micah Turbitt post. Every once in a while you run across someone so talented that you just sort of stop and let …
The Staves – Icarus
Awesome find by Greg on this one. The Staves are a very popular group in their native England, having played with Bon Iver and Fionn Regan. Their sound is sort of a slightly more mellow, female Mumford and Sons. It’s a cool vibe. …
Best of 2012: Greg’s Top 10 Albums
Albums might actually be more difficult to compile than best songs. There’s no easy way to determine one album as better than another. Instead, we make our judgments based largely in how we feel about a particular album as a whole. For me, …
Casey’s Top 10 Albums of 2012
After our first full year here at EarToTheGround Music, I’m really excited to bring you a full year’s worth of albums. This year was a really interesting year and one that was really different from last year. Last year, we saw the release …
