This will be the last MONTHLY  "What's Spinning"  because in January the playlist is moving to a WEEKLY feature. There's just  so much good, undiscovered music out there that I want  to be able to expose you to more of it, more often. So enjoy  December's  list and  we'll see you back in January for  the kick off of the new weekly list!

Dalton Domino's 1806 was one of my favorite albums from 2015 and if the lead single from his upcoming project on new label Lightning Rod Records is any indication, he'll find himself  a favorite again in 2017.

Written alongside Kaitlin Butts, "July" is a song about  finding out you've been cheated on and  how you handle it. And although cheating songs are not uncommon, what sets "July" apart is in the refreshingly frank way the story and emotions are presented. Propelled by driving percussion and accented by a fabulously welcome organ, Domino's distinct voice (think a vocal blend of Wade Bowen and  Mike Eli) captures  the mixed emotions of  sadness, anger, frustration - and genuinely being pissed off - in a way that makes one relate, commiserate and  empathize.

"You could have at least  said goodbye before you made a fool of me
But  you threw away what could have been and all else in between
Well my stomach kills me when I think about his hands on you
and the  three months I spent in the dark searching for the girl I thought I knew"

Looking for new music to make your ears happy? Then check out the November playlist which features artists like Butch Walker and Reckless Kelly to Randall King and Karen Jonas. Typically limiting the list to ten tracks, going forward  the playlist will feature anywhere from 15-20 tunes because there is  just so much good music out there if you're willing to dig  deeper to look for it.

A few days ago, TDC premiered the second track on Vandoliers  upcoming release, "Don't Tell Me What To Do." I  like the song  so much, that I decided to post it here as well, just so you don't miss it. Listen below and read the  premiere article HERE.

Luke Winslow-King will release a new album I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always on September 30. On I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always, his fifth album and third for Bloodshot Records, Luke Winslow-King draws from a deep, dark creative well, turning heartbreak and divorce into an inspired soundtrack for picking up the pieces.

Electric and sentimentally raw, this album is part sonic travelogue, part handbook on navigating the stages of grief. It pulses through LWK’s geographical stomping grounds, starting with the pre-war jive of New Orleans, travelling the bloodlines that flow along the Mississippi River towards the Delta bottleneck-slide, and the funky meter of Memphis R&B. Further north, it takes a right for an infusion of greasy Chicago blues, and arrives at the headwaters of his birthplace in rural Michigan for some tell-‘em-like-it-is confessionals.
 
The album was written and recorded while Luke and his newly formed band were on a 2015 summer tour in Italy (and later finished in New Orleans’s Parlor Studios, mixed by Colin DuPuis, engineer for the Black Keys). The New Orleans-based polymath matches a technical wizardry with a thematic immediacy detailing a relationship in freefall. The songs unfold as diary entries put to his idiosyncratic blend of roots, pop and rock. It’s a Luke Winslow-King record unlike any he’s ever done; he’s found the light in the darkness and he’s plugging in and turning up to bare his soul. In support of I'm Glad Trouble Don't Last Always, Luke is already on the road performing around the U.S. and soon in Europe. Listen to "Heartsick Blues" below.

Singer-songwriter John Warden has been making and playing original music since he was a teen. Now 59, Warden says his songs are reflections of “where I was at the time,” and can be found on five of his albums, including Black Crow, whose title track is our featured Give A Listen. A sweet keys filled introduction leads the listener into the bluesy folk feel - reminiscent of the 1970’s – of “Black Crow” a song that ponders finding balance in this complex world. Give a Listen below.

"Black Crow does this life make sense to you
The way things are and the life we choose
I can’t understand the things that we do
Do you know all I need to know?"

Fayetteville, Arkansas indie rock band Brother Moses will release their sophomore EP Legends on August 26th via Missing Piece Records. They recently premiered their song "Time to Leave."

"It’s kind of my love-hate letter to my home state," James Lockhart explains of "Time to Leave." "Sometimes I get really frustrated with the current dividing issues in Arkansas, things that I feel like we should’ve gotten over a long time ago. But it felt good to just kind of vent about it, and this song had to be the most fun to make in the studio. Our buddy Cody Carpenter laid down some top-notch bongos in the instrumental, and John-Lewis and Moses really get to show off on guitar on this one."
 
Recorded in LA and produced by Raymond Richards (Local Natives, Avid Dancer, Ferraby Lionheart), Legends marks Brother Moses' followup to 2015's Thank You For All Your Patience EP.

Brother Moses began in 2014 when James Lockhart and Moses Gomez came together while studying at The University of Arkansas. In the spring of 2015, the band teamed up with now full-time members Matthew Heckmann (bass) and John-Lewis Anderson (guitar,keys) to record their sophomore EP. 
 
Pre-order Legends at iTunes or Amazon.

NJ-based alt-folk-rockers Lowlight have just shared the latest single off of their forthcoming debut LP, Where Do We Go From Here, out August 26th.

Elmore Magazine premiered "Bones" saying, "The track is drenched in heavy, gauzy synth, which is offset by the lightest pulse of percussion, a combination that somehow mimics both the pendulous feel of a storm and also its lifting." Singer/guitarist Renee Maskin shared, "'Bones' tries to encapsulate what one might refer to as a 'soul hangover': an intensely amazing and beautiful drunken night followed by a period of time spent writhing in an unmade bed of self-loathing and despair. It's the highs and lows. Memories and realizations. Pasts and presents. It's a song that touches upon the thrill and the beauty of life and its expectations, while also recognizing its limitations."
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Give A Listen below.

Paul Bergmann will release his debut full-length album, Stars And Streams, on August 26. The album is the follow up to the criticially acclaimed Romantic Thoughts EP out now on Fairfax Recordings. Bergmann says of one of the tracks, “'Always, Forever' is an impersonal song for me. I feel a fond detachment toward it, as if it's always existed on its own. I don't remember finding the words to write it and sometimes I'm not sure it's me singing it. It seems to be about acceptance, love, the feeling of standing before a tall mountain. Meaning. But it's probably not about anything at all. Sometimes I wish to live in this song when I'm deeply sad." 

While the Los Angeles-based solo artist sings and writes songs, he doesn’t find the term endearing. Such a label makes it easy to identify a type of solo artist, but it also conjures up a desperate effort to impress an American Idolized public. And Bergmann isn’t writing songs to be so “right now.” He’s taking influence from the deep cuts, the soulful cuts, the timeless cuts of American pop—Phil Spector girl groups to Elliott Smith B-sides—Leonard Cohen’s vulnerability to Nebraska-era Springsteen’s simplicity. But Bergmann’s going full Wittgenstein, searching for and establishing a new timelessness.

​For more information visit his official website.