If you’re a fan of folk music, you’re familiar with legends like Bonnie Raitt or Joni Mitchell, but you may not know the names of the women carrying on that torch today. There are some incredible artists making music in this genre in …
Category: Roots
Album Review: The Other Favorites – Fools
If you’ve been reading ETTG for any length of time, you’ve heard about Josh Turner and Carson McKee, aka The Other Favorites. Turner’s viral YouTube station works to bring some really incredible music to our ears on a regular basis, so we love …
Get the folk in here and hang out with us
I know… the tired “folk” as f-word joke. But if you haven’t noticed, we’ve been writing a lot in the last 24 hours, so cut us some slack would ya? Anyways, here are two folk songs that we think you’ll really like. Reddmond …
Can you feel the soul? Two incredible rising soul singers
If you’re still alive and kicking, you will feel the soul in these two emerging vocalists. We’re big fans of new soul music, a really incredible genre that preserves some of the best of the last generation with a completely new take on …
Two Fantastic Folk artists on the rise
Whatever strain of folk music you happen to enjoy, we’ve got you covered here at ETTG. With these two emerging artists, we’d like you to sit back, relax, and take in some unconventional sounds and some really ear-popping new twists on a classic …
Americana rock to make Don McLean proud
Maybe some people think it’s splitting hairs, but we think there’s such a thing as Americana rock. It’s an Americana vein that’s a little in the Springsteen vein, but with a bit less of that hard driving element. Don McLean is the poster …
A couple of rock jams you haven’t heard (but need to hear)
Oh yeah it’s time for some unconventional, quirky, satisfying rock. It’s such a diverse genre you can’t keep up with all of it, so we’ll find the best for you. Born Animal – “I Think I Think Too Much” -This dynamic rock hit …
Album Review: Hillside Spirit Revival – Self-titled debut from a rising gospel Americana group
If you are interested in deeply harmonic Americana music, you’ll love Hillside Spirit Revival. Sometimes bands use words like “revival” in an ironic sense, but you can tell from the first verse of the first song that the Hillside Spirit Revival come at …
Album Review: David Ramirez – We’re Not Going Anywhere
Austin, Texas singer-songwriter David Ramirez has come out swinging with this album. If you are looking for a relaxing Americana album, this is not for you. If you’re looking for some engaging folk rock that might just get you fighting mad, too, then …
Artist Interview: The Other Favorites – Josh Turner and Carson McKee prove to be clever songwriters, not fools at all
From the moment I accepted Josh Turner’s call for our video interview, I felt a sense of talking to someone important. Having corresponded with Carson McKee, the other half of the famous duo The Other Favorites, I was excited to digitally “meet” them …
