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Pre-Order Unsung Passage Now The Dead Tongues are thrilled to announce the forthcoming album, Unsung Passage, due out May 18th on Psychic Hotline. The record’s lead single (and opening track), “Won’t Be Long,” is premiering today on Stereogum, who write that "[Unsung Passage] blends strains of folk, blues, country, and rock for meditations that can balance pangs of yearning with true wonder, that can conjure up the swamps of the south as well as the plains out in the middle of the country." The brainchild of Ryan Gustafson, who’s also toured as a guitarist with Hiss Golden Messenger and Phil Cook’s Guitarheels, The Dead Tongues serves as the moniker for Gustafson’s unique and profound perspective on love and loneliness. On Unsung Passage he effortlessly blurs the lines between folk, country, blues, and distinctly American rock music. Stay tuned for further announcements in the coming weeks. Ryan Gustafson remembers very little about the origins of the ten songs on Unsung Passage, his profound new reflection on the emotional architecture of love, loneliness, and life at large.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Press Release)— Tami Neilson won’t be staying New Zealand’s secret for much longer. For the past decade, the Canadian-born, New Zealand-based singer/songwriter has been the queen of her adopted homeland’s country and roots music scenes. She picked up handful of Best Country Album awards at the New Zealand Music Awards and won the prestigious APRA Silver Scroll for excellence in songwriting. With her new album, SASSAFRASS! (due June 1, 2018 on Outside Music), Neilson takes a giant step that should only bring her more widespread acclaim. On this 11-track effort, she places a heavier emphasis on soul music while not abandoning her country and rockabilly roots. Neilson conjures up a wonderfully retro style that sounds like it could be a lost gem from the late ’50s or early ’60s; however, beneath the classic veneer are frank, highly relevant lyrics.
Race the Tide is the latest project from multi-instrumentalist Jesse Macht who conceived the project after he was confronted with an actual and metaphorical broken heart. On his 30th birthday, he was diagnosed with an SVT -- an extra electrical impulse in the heart that pushed his heart rate to over 260 BPM when performing -- and risked cardiac arrest. A few days later, he was forced to retire his band Burn Down the Mission after a nine year run, and a three year relationship with his girlfriend. After confronting his creative and physical mortality, he began unabashedly chasing down his life’s dreams. And so, the metaphor of racing the tide before it comes in was born.
Race The Tide is an album that’s rooted in the idea of collaboration. While Macht wrote, played guitar, and keyboards on much of the record, as well as co-produced the effort with Justin Tocket (Andres Osborne, Pet Fangs), other players include Rob Humphreys and Gavin Salmon on drums, Tyler Carrol (Allen Stone) on bass, Ken Belcher on guitar, and Will Herrington (Lukas Graham), Mark McKee, and Ben Allemon (Ryan Adams, Grace Potter) on keys. “This record asks me to confront endings and new beginnings, knowing that all happen continuously and continue to cycle,” says Macht. “As the tide comes in, I know it’ll pull me back out… giving in and letting go to that process is the challenge I’m working through via these songs.” Macht recently shared a song from the album, "Dayenu," an atmospheric ballad of hope led by Macht's warm vocals and a serene coupling of guitar and percussion. Listen above and for more information visit HERE.  Jordan Davis will be at Opry City Stage this Monday, March 26 from 5pm-7pm for a show & signing of his debut album Home State (releasing on Friday!)
Coming off of his first headlining tour - White Wine and Whiskey Tour - which did not have a NYC stop, Jordan wanted to make sure his New York fans had something special. A member of CMT’s “18 for 2018” initiative, the year-long campaign spotlighting country music’s most promising newcomers, we can expect a lot more from Jordan Davis this year: https://www.jordandavisofficial.com Don't miss this special performance!  Libertyville, IL (Press Release) Indie rock singer-songwriter Ike Reilly is set to release his seventh studio album, Crooked Love, on CD and digital formats on May 18, 2018 via Rock Ridge Music. (A vinyl version will be released later this year.) Since his major label debut, the groundbreaking Salesmen and Racists, Reilly has been making punk/folk/blues influenced rock ’n’ roll records that lean heavily on stories of outsiders with keen details and broad strokes that insinuate a crack in the American dream. Reilly’s band, The Assassination, has been called one of the best live bands in America, and the body of recorded work they’ve turned out has been poetic, rebellious, wholly original, and critically acclaimed.
Still, Reilly and co-producer Phil Karnats (Secret Machines, Tripping Daisy, Polyphonic Spree) felt that Reilly’s best takes had never been recorded. The lucidity and rhythm of Reilly’s performances that Karnats had witnessed in hotel rooms, backstage, and on tour buses had never been captured. “I wanted to create a setting where Ike could sing and play guitar at the same time, with the band in the same room... no headphones and minimal isolation,” says Karnats. “There's always been a freshness to playing the songs together that's hard to harness when recording in the more common, modern, sense where you do rhythm tracks first, then overdubs and vocals last. This time, Ike did his thing and we developed the arrangements based on his vocal approach, cadence, phrasing, intensity and all that. I think, in the end, we ended up with some killer songs that have a strangely unique, slightly off-center, vibe.”  Courtesy: Mora May Agency
California musician and songwriter Madeline Matthews', MAWD, compositions fuse rock’n’roll, folk/blues and pop. Her current single, "Dark Room" profiles the feeling of isolation that so many of us experience. She notes, “I felt like I was going crazy, sitting in my dark dingy dorm room, struggling with the longing for a comforting feeling, trying to fit in, feeling like a stranger in my skin, and discovering a new dark part of my mind."
Led by gritty guitars, and driving rhythms, "Dark Room" takes that hollow hopelessness and delivers the light via MAWD's assured, raw, and soulful vocals. "Dark Room" is currently available worldwide. INSTAGRAM - FACEBOOK - TWITTER  (Nashville, Tennessee…Press Release) – Hit singer/ songwriter CJ Solar, who Rolling Stone Country named one of their “New Artists You Need To Know,” is set to release his new EP Get Away With It on Sea Gayle Records April 13, 2018. The EP is available for pre-order now at iTunes, and Solar will be performing all five songs and more at exclusive launch parties in his home town of Baton Rouge on April 13 and in Nashville on April 18. The new EP includes his “Airplane” single, which is currently climbing the national Country charts.
 CHATTANOOGA, TN (Press Release) - AC Entertainment and Drew Holcomb are excited to unveil the initial artist lineup for the 2018 Moon River Music Festival. This year's edition of the two-day event will feature 22 acts across two stages, taking place on the banks of the beautiful Tennessee River at Coolidge Park in Chattanooga, TN onSeptember 8 & 9. Tickets go on sale this Thursday at 10:00 AM EST, exclusively atwww.MoonRiverFestival.com
The 2018 lineup features a specially curated group of artists including: The Avett Brothers, The Head and the Heart, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, Judah & The Lion, Trampled By Turtles, Margo Price, Mavis Staples, I'm With Her, The Dirty Guv'nahs, Joseph, The Secret Sisters and many more!  Photo Credit: Nicola Gell When: Wed. April 25th
Where: ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL 185 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002 Stage 3 Showtime: 7:00pm Tickets $15 www.rockwoodmusichall.com BettySoo, Grace Pettis, Rebecca Loebe...hailing from Texas, Alabama, and Georgia respectively, now neighbors in Austin, are bewitching audiences with sumptuous harmonies and unforgettable songwriting. Friends now for a decade, they first met at the legendary Kerrville Folk Festival, each winners of the annual “New Folk” award. Luscious harmony singers, effortless instrumentalists, seasoned touring artists – they recognized what each can accomplish individually could be made all the stronger by collaboration. Now, the spark has been set, the fire lit. Their individual and collective fans are eating it up. A video of “Fast Car” garnered twenty-thousand views on Facebook within days of posting. The harmonies are thrilling; echoes of Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt’s Trio recordings. The songs are powerful and spare. The stage presence confident and assured. Their collabortion has resulted in their forthcoming EP Waterline under the band name NOBODY's GIRL to be released in the fall on the Lucky Hound label. Currently on their Sirens of South Austin Tour throughout the Northeast and South from March through May which includes venue, festival and house concert dates, Rebecca Loebe, Grace Pettis and BettySoo will be sharing songs from their individual solo albums, a few special covers, as well as originals from their newly recorded EP. www.gracepettis.com www.rebeccaloebe.com www.bettysoo.com  GLENMOORE, Pa. (Press Release) -- Country music megastars Alabama, Toby Keith and Brad Paisley will headline Citadel Country Spirit USA, a new, three-day country music festival coming to Chester County's Brandywine Valley August 24-26, 2018.
Citadel Country Spirit USA comes to Chester County from the producers of Country Summer, Northern California’s biggest country music festival celebrating its fifth annual event in 2018. It's a three-day destination country music celebration that's earned national recognition and was voted Sonoma County’s Best Music Festival for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017. “It’s exciting to expand our portfolio to the East Coast,” Alan Jacoby, Impact Entertainment’s executive producer, said. “Our goal is to create the Mid-Atlantic region’s foremost annual country music festival.” Alabama, who many believe is the “greatest country band of all time,” headlines on Friday, August 24. Toby Keith, one of the modern era’s biggest names in country music, headlines on Saturday, August 25. Brad Paisley, the singer, songwriter, guitarist who has co-hosted the annual CMA (Country Music Association) Awards for 10 consecutive years – and won a slew of them too – headlines on Sunday, August 26. |
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