"Elaine" premiere at Billboard

Lakeland, Fla.-based Americana singer-songwriter Michael McArthur has announced a January 25th release for his debut LP Ever Green, Ever Rain and has shared the lead single "Elaine" at Billboard. 
 
"I've always done things a little bit differently," says singer/songwriter Michael McArthur, who wrote the most vibrant album of his career, Ever Green, Ever Rain, during the darkest season of his life. 
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Songwriting has always been a form of therapy for McArthur. Over the past decade, the Florida native has filled a handful of EPs with his own mix of raw soul and lushly layered folk, working with producers like David Bianco (Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams) and Greg Wells (Adele, One Republic) along the way. He makes his full-length debut with 2019's Ever Green, Ever Rain, an album that's by turns warm, woozy, and wistful.
 
The album shows the full range not only of McArthur's voice — a gorgeous instrument that soars and swoons, flecked with vibrato and palpable emotion — but his songwriting, too, bouncing from the soft acoustics of "Elaine" to the percussive pulse of "Save Me From the Fire." Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Ryan Freeland and inspired by McArthur's long period of isolation and self-repair, Ever Green, Ever Rain is both earthy and anthemic — the sound of a songwriter who's unafraid to shine a light on his own faults. 

AUSTIN (November 29, 2018) — Parker McCollum and lifelong friend, Koe Wetzel, usher in the holidays with their seven-date “Naughty or Nice” tour starting December 3 in Stephenville, Texas.  The intimate, acoustic shows will feature Parker and Koe on barstools singing holiday classics — and a selection of brand new songs —offering what fans say feels like a “living room session.” 

"As much fun as we have on the ‘Naughty or Nice’ tour, and as wild and crazy as it gets at the shows, I really look forward to seeing the fans’ reactions to my new songs,” says Parker. “They’ve never heard them before, and because the shows are acoustic, it is the test of all tests.”  

Parker spent last week opening for the Randy Rogers Band in Boston, D.C. and New York City, and in all three markets, audiences sang along to his songs. ​

Denver-based quartet Dearling is set to release its new EP, Silver and Gold, on February 22, 2019.  Following the success of its debut album, Inheritance, the band knew that its second offering would have to be different and that it would need to challenge what they had already created. Silver and Gold is the result, and it hails back to band vocalist Rachel James’s modern country start in her musical career. 

“The first song that ever got me a real paycheck was a country tune,” she says. “I loved going back to that and creating songs that aren’t just love songs. A couple of these tunes are real stories, people deciding to do the right thing at the right time. It’s about the heroes we never talk about culturally. We idolize people for all sorts of reasons: fame, success, money, athletic ability. I wanted to sing and create some songs that promote those who give when no one is looking, without an agenda. They just live right.” ​

Nashville-based recording artist Trae Edwards has released his new single, “Color Blind.” The song, featuring a powerful, heartfelt duet by contemporary R&B singer Eliz Camacho, is a stirring anthem of racial reconciliation that offers an uplifting message of love and healing. “Color Blind” is available today for purchase and streaming on all digital platforms, including Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Spotify and Pandora.

A companion music video also releases today. View it here: https://youtu.be/x2QG8pww48U
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Inspired by the heartwarming true story of an unlikely lifelong friendship, “Color Blind” tells the true story of two southern, Caucasian sisters and the African-American caregiver they met as children in pre-segregation Mississippi.

Acclaimed Nashville singer/songwriter and "Americana Queen" (Noisey) Mary Bragg announced today the release of her new album Violets As Camouflage on March 1st, 2019 via Tone Tree Music. Self-produced and self-engineered at her home studio in Nashville, TN, the fourteen-song collection is both beautiful and blunt, the work of an artist only just beginning to embrace the full range of her talents. This morning, Bragg released her new single "Fixed," a tender, string-flecked track which takes on the skewed self-perception that many women grow up battling.
 
Listen to "Fixed" HERE.
 
"It started as a message of, 'There's nothing wrong with you. You don't need to be fixed. You're so perfect; Please can't you see that?' kind of thing," Bragg told Billboard who debuted the track yesterday. "It's certainly how I grew up feeling. It's a message that I hope lots of young girls, and boys, will hear and actually consider as a possibility that, 'Oh, I don't have to be like what I'm seeing on my phone or on TV. I'm alright just the way I am."

NEW YORK -- November 30, 2018 -- Jamie Lin Wilson is known for her ability to tell a good story, often honing in on the details of everyday life that most people miss. The Texas-based singer-songwriter just released her new album, Jumping Over Rocks, on October 26; its 10 tracks revealing Wilson’s observations through tales of men, women and children coping, striving, celebrating and learning. Since its release, the album has climbed to #17 on the Americana Albums Chart, while current single, “The Being Gone,” reached #26 on the Americana Singles Chart. The video for the song premiered with American Songwriter today.
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Jumping Over Rocks finds Wilson narrating a rich collection of story songs that encompass universal themes but remain specific and personal, too. Wilson wrote from the outside looking in, studying characters around her more than she had before. It was recorded live over four days at Arlyn Studios in Austin; a fierce cast of musicians joined her, including Charlie Sexton on guitar, and together, Wilson and the players cut every track live.