Maia Jelavic. The Less I See. Maia Jelavic, 2013. Maia Jelavic: https://www.facebook.com/maiajmusic Here’s another great album coming out of Australia, a hot seat of music innovation this year especially. While they might share a country, Australia’s a big place with lots of diversity, and …
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Stacy Lantz – Ready This Time – Classic female vocalist keeps Nashville honest
Stacy Lantz is the picture of Nashville’s music scene. No longer “just country” the classic intricacies of Lantz’s style keep listeners happy and craving more. Her bandcamp page describes her vocals as “piercing,” which might be the single best word for her. To …
Lily and Madeleine – Sister harmonies create authentic music
Lily and Madeleine beg descriptive terms like “adorable” and “cute,” but really those are almost insults to two accomplished vocalists. Their songwriting and vocal blending serves to provide one of the most unique and enjoyable sounds to emerge in 2013. Their self-titled album …
Alpenglow- Solitude: One to Share
Alpenglow. Solitude. Alpenglow/Bandcamp, 2013. http://www.alpenglowmusic.com Alpenglow is a Burlington, Vermont-based band who’s been milled (Quite ironically- in an old stone mill) into a finely tuned musical machine in fairly short order. Their recordings typically take place in a chapel on a hill, and …
Run Boy Run – So Sang the Whippoorwill – Gorgeous traditional Appalachian music
It’s nice to know that lost arts are not, in fact, lost at all. Run Boy Run have preserved for our ears something delightful. It feels both old fashioned and very new. It’s a joyous album from beginning to end that a lot …
Elephant Revival- These Changing Skies: Changing the world one note at a time
Elephant Revival. These Changing Skies. Itz Evolving Records, 2013. http://elephantrevival.com Elephant Revival is a quintet that’s emerged from Nederland, Colorado, and in 2011 won a best album of the year award in the progressive edge category from the Indie Acoustic Music Project. Their …
Jus Post Bellum – Oh July – Folk music album of the year contender has American Civil War theme
From the opening vocal blending of Jus Post Bellum’s Oh July there’s clearly something special about this band. This is not the toe-tapping banjo-driven poppy folk music that seems to be dominating the scene in the 21st century. No, instead, it’s a lyric-driven, …
Double Feature: Jonathan Byrd and the Barn Birds – Doing traditional country music justice
Jonathan Byrd’s solo album Cackalack has some great songs on it and his duet work in the Barn Birds is really great as well. I decided to put these two projects together to highlight solid songwriting and two enjoyable albums. Cackalack’s cover depicts …
The Rhinetones – Over the Hills – Refreshing new country music with classic country sounds
A few months ago a wonderful folk country band called The Rhinetones asked us to give their music a listen. After giving the album a quick spin, I found myself drawn to a certain element to their approach. It was honest, sincere, and …
The Deep Dark Woods – Jubilee – Forging new Americana style “Country Noir”
Usually one song isn’t enough to trigger interest in a given band, but Deep Dark Woods are the kind of unique sound indie rock band that can win over fans at first listen. Their latest album Jubilee is a timeless collection of emotional …
