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Nashville’s indie rock band, Future Thieves, are thrilled to share their new dreamy single “Always Something.”
The lead singer Elliot says, “’Always Something’ is a song that was written from the perspective of someone who pushes people out of their life unintentionally...mostly by just little things they say or do. I've known a few people like that in my life, and I always want so badly for them to stop and realize what they're doing. This person also has a problem with only speaking his or her mind while intoxicated. I've also known this to be the case. I've loved these people and respected them. If only they knew what they were doing. Maybe this song could help others be aware of their actions and maybe they can improve on them. It's a sad song yes, but it's meant to carry a helpful message.” Be on the look out for all new music this year. Future Thieves is planning on releasing a new single each month. In support of the new music the band will be doing some US tour dates and hitting up SXSW. Future Thieves Tour Dates February 21 – Knoxville, TN – The Outpost February 27 – Atlanta, GA – Vinyl February 28 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre March 2 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle March 3 – Lexington, KY – The Burl March 7 – New Orleans, LA – Santos Bar March 8 – Plano, TX – Box Garden At Legacy Hall March 11 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall LINKS: http://futurethievesmusic.com https://www.facebook.com/futurethieves https://twitter.com/future_thieves https://www.instagram.com/futurethievesmusic/
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AUSTIN, Texas — There was a time, and not that long ago in the grand scheme of things, when Gurf Morlix didn't really think of himself as a songwriter. A guitar player, sure — armed from the get-go with the dead-aim chops and cool-handed confidence of a natural-born gunslinger. Later on, he took on the mantle of producer, too, parlaying his myriad strengths as an ace sideman into an equally lauded career helping a veritable who's who of the most formidable poets in Americana find their "growl" and cut their deepest grooves on record. But songwriter? That handle took him a bit longer to fully embrace. "I was always writing songs, since I was a teen, but I probably wrote 200 songs before I wrote a really good one," Morlix insists. "For me, it was a tough code to crack." Never mind the fact that his perspective on the matter was inevitably skewed by his years of working with such grading-curve-blowing talents as Blaze Foley, Lucinda Williams, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Mary Gauthier, and Ray Wylie Hubbard: a high bar is a high bar, and Morlix, for all of his famed minimalist aesthetic both onstage and in the studio, has never been one to cut corners when it comes to quality. So by the time he finally did feel ready to step out with 2000's Toad of Titicaca, there was no mistaking his debut for the work of an artist content to make due with just good enough.  Courtesy of the Artist Renee Wahl is set to release her new LP Cut To The Bone on Friday, March 15th. The 9-track set, produced by Stuart Mathis (The Wallflowers, Lucinda Williams) and recorded in Nashville, is a self-exploration of discovery, awareness, and finding the beauty in spite of something painful. She writes from her heart, occasionally changing names “to protect the innocent.” These songs are her darkest, rawest yet, as Wahl opens herself up more than ever before.
Previously, The Boot premiered the album's moody lead single "To The Bone." "Inspired by vintage hucksters and con artists of old, Wahl explores the age-old issue of knowing who to trust — especially with your heart," says The Boot of the song. “Wahl makes it clear that she's not falling for anyone's tricks.” "It's about relying on people to fix your life when they really don't have your best interest at heart," Wahl adds, "those people willing to take advantage of another for their own gain."  NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Music icon Loretta Lynn will celebrate her birthday this April with a once-in-a-lifetime music event. On the heels of one of the most deeply personal albums of her career, Wouldn’t It Be Great (Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment), the 2019 GRAMMY nominee celebrates this year’s birthday being honored by her friends. Alan Jackson, Brandy Clark, Darius Rucker, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Jack White, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Margo Price, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert, Pistol Anniesand Trisha Yearwood are among the first guests announced for “Loretta Lynn: An All-Star Birthday Celebration Concert” on Monday, April 1 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, produced by AEG Presents. Acclaimed music producer Dave Cobb will serve as musical director for the evening of celebration and song. Net proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Opry Trust Fund and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum®.
"I am so excited to celebrate my 87th birthday with all my friends,” shares Lynn. “This is the first time I've ever had a birthday party! My birthday wish has come true. The only other wish I have is that Keith Urban jumps out of my birthday cake!" Garth Brooks was on hand at the press conference to surprise Lynn with a birthday cake to kick-off the celebration. In describing Lynn’s immense contribution to American music, Brooks said, “She's the queen of Country music, there's not a level she hasn't crushed, no matter how big this party is, it ain't gonna be big enough! This is going to be an honor and a blast!”  Courtesy of the Artist 28th career BMA nod, with seven wins, for 2016 Grammy nominee,
who has a new album and memoir due out this year. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Janiva Magness has earned her 28th career Blues Music Award nomination after having won seven of them including the highly coveted B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, presented to her by the bluesman himself and Bonnie Raitt. This is one more honor for one of the greatest soul singers of our generation, who in 2016 earned her first Grammy nod and year after year tops the Billboard Blues and Living Blues radio charts. Magness’ nomination is for her main instrument: her voice. The Blues Foundation added a new category for Best Instrumentalist – Vocals and this year Magness joins three other powerhouse female vocalists as nominees in the category.  “This collection of songs is mainly made up of those that came through while improvising and following the melodic lines and threads. Sometimes when you take a small musical fragment and you care for it, follow it and build it up slowly, it can become a thing of wonder.” Glen Hansard, 2019
Those who have followed Glen Hansard’s career since his Academy Award winning turn in the film 'Once' will have witnessed one artistic arc: the journey of a Dublin busker who cut his teeth on the greats - Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen – and followed the path of the troubadour to great effect. But there is another thread running through Hansard’s musicianship; in his decades as lead singer of Irish stalwarts The Frames, rock and folk ambitions coexisted with moments of strangeness, intimacy, and stillness. Today, Hansard announces 'This Wild Willing', his fourth full-length album and a collection of songs that follows this second path, where he marries the sonic inventiveness of the best of his work in The Frames with the discipline he’s found as a songwriter and lyricist in his solo career.  Credit: Rose Kaz
Hailing from North Carolina, former social worker turned touring folk singer, songwriter, poet and story-teller Jane Kramer has been playing music and touching hearts for more than 18 years.
On March 1st, Kramer will release her new album, Valley of the Bones, a collection of ten thoughtfully nuanced songs dealing with the beauty and mess of shared human experiences that spark a connection with the listener. Today, TDC is thrilled to premiere one of the album's cuts, "Waffle House Song." Penned by Kramer, whose light and airy vocals lead the way alongside dobro and shuffling percussion, "Waffle House Song" offers a comfy front porch feel while gently administering an empowering goodbye to an immature lover via an on point comparison to that late night staple. "Waffle House Song" proves that while Kramer may be eighteen years into her journey, she is solidly serving up a sizzlin' hot and delicious portion of nourishment for one's soul.....kinda like that yellow signed place she sings about. "I need a smothered, scattered, covered, all the way love No good time boys or cowboys, a boy ain't enough I need a grown up man wearing big boy pants standing straight up Giving me smothered, scattered, covered, all the way love. I like my hot sauce with a couple scrambled eggs on top I like my coffee with whiskey and cream I like my man just like I like my breakfast To fill up my plate, if you know what I mean" Kramer shares the story behind the song, "I spent plenty of late nights in my late teens and early 20s in, (and being kicked out of,) the Swannanoa, NC Waffle House. Cut to my mid-thirties: I wrapped up a 4-year stint of living on the west coast in self-proclaimed exile, and when I drove back across the country and started seeing Waffle Houses, I knew that I was home. I stopped at one off I 95, ordered some hash browns and started writing this song. I was pretty freshly out of a long relationship, moving back across the country to my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains to start over, and was ready to recalibrate my life, leave behind the things that were weighing me down and ask for the kind of love that I knew I was worthy of: a smothered, scattered, covered, all-the-way love. Coming from a grown-up man wearing big boy pants. When you think about it, great and substantial love is a lot like great breakfast. " Enjoy, and share, the song above. For more information visit: Website/Facebook/IG Pre-order Valley of the Bones on Indiegogo  Nashville, TN – Acclaimed duo Shovels & Rope has announced the April 12th release of their new album, By Blood on Dualtone Music. Known for their honest, literate, and narrative-driven songwriting, Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent (aka Shovels & Rope) inject raw and fiercely passionate emotion into the 10 new tracks on By Blood. The husband and wife team just released the biting, personal track “The Wire” (Listen Now).
By Blood opens with the pulsating mantra of “I’m Comin’ Out”, a song with multiple subtexts ranging from the obvious, to a baby about to emerge, to showing up for the revolution with “the taste of blood in my mouth.” The “blood” referred to in the poignant title track is a message to their young daughter about the unbreakable union of family. As storytellers, Shovels & Rope create cinematic vignettes built around flawed characters who strive for greatness but are often overtaken by their shortcomings. Tracks such as the new wave-infused “The Wire” and the enduring epic “Carry Me Home” exude the vulnerability and fragility that comes with love. The duo puts their twist on the modern murder ballad in “Pretty Polly”, while an inspiring message of hope, strength, and acceptance is at the heart of the tale in “C’mon Utah”.  Photo Credit: D.B. Rouse as photographed by Darin Dubinsky Offering up sincerity sans pretense, singer-songwriter D.B. Rouse is armed with a guitar (nicknamed “Meal-Ticket”), a kazoo....and a charmingly absurd sense of humor. The Milwaukee-based troubadour (former cruise ship lounge singer, goat farmer, and cabana man) is prepping the release of a new album Choices Were Made on February 1st and today shares the delightful video for the album's first single, "Get My Shit Together." Propelled by a summery, happy-go-lucky vibe, "Get My Shit Together" finds Rouse making the decision to put on one's grown-up pants and move forward - or maybe not - despite less than stellar circumstances and past experiences. It's a wholly relatable tale brought to life in an endearing and colorful video that blends offbeat humor with age earned wisdom and a hefty dose of heart. Rouse notes, "This was directed and filmed by the astounding Andy Schlactenhaufen. In the video, our lead character, played by Brian Girard, wakes up after a 15-year-long party, and rolls out of bed. Brian does an excellent job portraying the janitor in all of us. He's got a hangover as big as he is, and it's waving at him. He's not really sure of much, but he knows it's time to put his janitor pants on. He walks into the cluttered warehouse of his mind and proceeds to get his shit together." Tour Dates: 01/19/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 01/23/2019: Terlingua, TX @ Starlight Theatre 01/26/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 02/02/2019: Terlingua, TX @ Starlight Theatre 02/09/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 02/16/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 02/23/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 03/02/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 03/09/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 03/16/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 03/23/2019: Terlingua, TX @ La Kiva 03/29/2019: San Antonio, TX @ Fitzgerald's Bar & Live Music 03/30/2019: San Antonio, TX @ Barriba Cantina 04/01/2019: Houston, TX @ Spring Branch Tavern 04/03/2019: Houston, TX @ JP Hop's House 04/06/2019: La Rose, LA @ The Willow 04/10/2019: Tallahassee, FL @ Blue Tavern 04/13/2019: Cape Coral, FL @ Rack’Em Billiards 04/20/2019: Dahlonega, GA @ Shenanigan’s 04/21/2019: North Charleston, SC @ The Mill Lounge 04/23/2019: Wilmington, NC @ Juggling Gypsy Cafe 04/25/2019: Wilmington, NC @ Flytrap Brewing 05/01/2019: Thomas, WV @ Purple Fiddle 05/03/2019: Charleston, WV @ The Boulevard Tavern 05/10/2019: Petoskey, MI @ Beards Brewery 05/11/2019: Traverse City, MI @ The Acoustic Tap Room 05/13/2019: Petoskey, MI @ Red Sky Stage 05/25/2019: Milwaukee, WI @ Bremen Cafe Rouse continues the pursuit of his dream to be “the best damn hobo musician in the world" with Choices Were Made - an album "about a person struggling to quit drinking and get their shit together.....having the courage to leave behind old habits, and facing the world with your best self forward" - available February 1st, 2019. Website/Facebook  Rockabilly goddess Kim Lenz has released the new single "Pine Me" from her new album Slowly Speeding. The track is currently streaming via The Bluegrass Situation. Combining atmospheric production with gothic americana themes, "Pine Me" is an entrancing distillation of Lenz' approach to songwriting on her upcoming record.Slowly Speeding will be released on February 22nd via Blue Star records.
Listen: Kim Lenz - "Pine Me" https://soundcloud.com/kimlenz/pine-me Pre-order Slowly Speeding here. Lenz describes the concept behind "Pine Me": "This song is an answer song to a murder ballad. Murder ballads and answer songs have a long history in American music, both blues and country. I’ve wanted to write a murder ballad for a long time but the storyline is usually quite simple – the girl gets murdered down by the river. In this song, the girl has indeed been murdered down by the river, and now she is ‘answering’ him. She’s haunting him to come find her, mind her, and do the right thing and take her body to her mother’s house. And in the end, the act he committed will haunt him ’til he dies." |
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