On November 16th, 2018 Justin Kemp Band releases a new single produced by Bill McDermott, "Better Man". “Better Man” was written with the hope to inspire people to strive to be the best they can in any given relationship. May it be with a spouse, a parent, a child, a sibling, a friend, or even with God. We all make mistakes, and I think we all hope those we hold dear can and will give us that second chance to be better." Justin Kemp Band is currently touring and recording his EP preparing for release in 2019. For more information visit the website HERE.
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"Nothing can prepare you for the sound that comes out of his mouth when he sings—or bellows—his stellar songwriting. It is a soulful power beyond belief.” Paste Magazine Hailing from Little Rock, Arkansas, and possessing a voice the Onion A.V. Club warns “knocks your brain into the back of your skull,” Adam Faucett has drawn comparisons from Tim Buckley to Cat Power to Otis Redding. Called “one of the greatest, most thoughtful lyricists the state has to offer,” (Arkansas Times), Faucett has again pushed the borders of his “part folk, part blues, part elemental rock stomp, part unidentifiable cosmic holler” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) with the release of It Took the Shape of a Bird, a record of his most personal, unbodied, and darkly beautiful songs to date. The album has received rave reviews from publications like American Songwriter, PopMatters and Wide Open Country, among others. He'll hit the road in November in support of the album, with a show at Rockwood Music Hall on November 18th. Don't miss it. November 18th Rockwood Music Hall - Stage 3 185 Orchard Street Doors 6:30 Show 7:00 $10.00 http://www.ticketfly.com/event/174651 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In 1973 Big Star recorded its second album, Radio City, as a trio, after the departure of founding member Chris Bell. When the time came to tour, original bassist Andy Hummel decided to return to school to pursue his engineering education. With this departure, Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens recruited fellow Memphis native John Lightman to take over on bass, and the band readied its live set. NASHVILLE, TN - Country supertrio PISTOL ANNIES have released today their anxiously-awaited third album INTERSTATE GOSPEL on RCA Records Nashville. Listen now on all streaming platforms and purchase the album HERE. "We’ve grown a lot as artists and humans in the past five years," the Annies stated. "This album is more mature than our last ones, but still fun. The best way to describe Interstate Gospel is that it sounds like three women came unleashed and told a bunch of truth. We didn’t hold back and we’re proud of it. Our hope is that when people listen, they feel some of the same magic that we felt when we were writing these songs." Watch the trio talk more about Interstate Gospel, along with behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the album, HERE. Arden, North Carolina -- The award-winning Grascals bring a new single from their forthcoming album with the song “Heartbreak Hall Of Fame.” Smooth but driving with a classic sound, “Heartbreak Hall of Fame” merges vintage Country with modern Bluegrass in just the right way, a combination the Grascals do so well. Written by Larry Joe Cox, Ray Edwards and Dicky Minor, it tells the story of unrequited love and a man whose suffering is endured through this bitter lament. “Somewhere in the record books, There will be your name And a list of all the hearts you broke while you played your cheatin’ game.” Lead vocals are performed by the band’s young, talked-about singer John Bryan with sterling Grascals harmonies by the recognized voice of Terry Eldredge and the resonant baritone of Terry Smith. “Heartbreak Hall of Fame” is the most recent single from this band’s upcoming release that follows the success of their 2017 release, Before Breakfast. Listen to “Heartbreak Hall of Fame” HERE.
TDC is proud to present the full album stream of Americana singer-songwriter Dave Giles' second album, Tennessee & 48th, out today on streaming and download platforms.
Written in London, but recorded in Music City, the ten songs on the carefully crafted LP were recorded live to two-inch tape and explore relationships, community, hedonism, and sacrifice through gritty lyricism, anthemic choruses, moody melodies, and thoughtful introspection. Inspired by such genre heavyweights as Jason Isbell and Zac Brown and the Nashville episode of Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways documentary, the 33-year-old jetted off to the USA in early 2018 to start work on his most ambitious project to date. Having crowdfunded an impressive £25000 with his loyal fanbase, Giles and his producer Dean Dichoso put together a band of incredible musicians in the perfect studio, located on the corner of Tennessee and 48th Street (Welcome To 1979). For a long-time Country and Americana fan like Giles, the experience of making the album and forming a new band of musical brothers (including guitarist Kevin Haaland of Skillet fame and Candlebox basisst Adam Kury) was a lifelong, career-high bucket list moment. “How many people have a dream?” he asks. “Something they’ve always wanted to do, their whole lives? How many of those people ending up doing that thing? And how many of those come away from that experience with it not just meeting their expectations, but going way beyond? I’m one of those guys. I spent more money than I’d ever spent in my life, risked everything and I was working with people who didn’t know anything about me - and all of them contributed hugely to my songs and my album in a special, unique alchemy.” DIY to the core, Dave Giles has toured Europe, Australia, Ireland and the UK and released a series of EPS along with his debut album Love, Life, Loss and Tea in 2012. He will be playing live dates later this year. Find Dave Giles at facebook.com/davejgilesmusic, Twitter at @davejgiles instagram.com/davejgiles Northern California Blues Americana Singer / Songwriter KATIE KNIPP has announced the release of her long anticipated, 5th album, Take it With You. Due out November 7, Take it With You features Neil Campisano on drums, Zack Proteau on bass, and Brett Vaughn Rechtfertig on guitar while Katie sings and plays various instruments including piano, slide dobro guitar, and harmonica. “After focusing 20 years of my life on my music, it took the births of my two sons and associated sacrifices of motherhood testing my commitment for me to truly appreciate what that means. Some of these lyrics to the songs were typed into my phone at 3am while breastfeeding. With the support of my family, I was able to return as a solo act, and my attitude has completely changed. My love for music had been tested and I couldn’t be more grateful now for ANY time I get to play, especially after the pregnancy carpal tunnel healed. I started writing songs from a more natural state of just pure love and they come easily to me now. I’m no longer trying to prove myself because there’s only one me out there.” - Katie Knipp Track List: 1. Ya Make it So Hard to Sing the Blues 2. I Don’t Sing for You 3. Letters 4. Metro in Paris 5. I Will Stick Around 6. Come Back 7. Get Outta My Dream 8. Santa Cruz Blues 9. Another Round 10. Last Man Out Pre-Order Take it With You Debut by Hunt Sales Memorial is an explosive 12-track roots-rock exploration from the Runt band member, “Lust for Life” beatmaker, and Tin Machine co-founder; out January 25, 2019 from Big Legal Mess. Billboard premiered a new song and video "One Day": http://bit.ly/2Og9FzI MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A conventional bio of Hunt Sales would start by noting his famous associations, recounting his much-revered work as a sideman for Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop and David Bowie. It would trumpet the fact that he’s long been considered one of the world’s greatest drummers, a secret weapon deployed in the service of rock royalty. But that’s not how Sales identifies, nor how he sees himself. “I’m gonna fucking tell you who I am,” says Sales with gruff candor. “What I really am is my kids’ father and my wife’s husband. And I’m a heroin addict. A bad heroin addict for 40 years. I’ve been a crackhead. And I’ve been a criminal. Those are the facts. But I don’t do drugs anymore. I'm sober now. All I do is make music — so let’s not be late for the show.” In a career that began when he was teen in the mid-’60s, Sales has seen and done it all. Beyond his impressive rock and roll c.v. he’s played blues for the legendary Lowell Fulson, recorded with funk master Bootsy Collins, jammed out with Tex-Mex all-stars Los Super Seven, devoted himself to mastering organ trio music and Dixieland jazz, and served up songs across the spectrum for film and TV. If there’s a professional or creative path to explore, Sales has traveled it. “This. Is. Not. A. Drill…” Batten down the hatches ladies and gentlemen, for tempestuous folk-punk renegades - SKINNY LISTER - are back with an explosive new single: “38 Minutes”. LISTEN HERE Take it as a forewarning, for the London sextet today also lay out the incendiary plans for their long-awaited fourth studio album: ‘The Story Is….’, a record set to drop from Xtra Mile Recordings silo on 1st March 2019. Lead single “38 Minutes” is a tense new track inspired by a ballistic missile alert triggered in Hawaii at the beginning of 2018. For a terrifying 38 minutes officials led the populous of the volcanic island to believe that the end was nigh. As sirens wailed and panic prevailed, the locals were starkly informed: “This Is Not A Drill”… But it was of course, just that. Whilst it might not go down as a red letter day for the Hawaiian authorities, Skinny Lister fans can rejoice as this episode arrives transformed some months later into an ebullient new single “38 Minutes” and the first to emerge of many stories that make up their imaginative new album ‘The Story Is…’. Written, produced, and directed by Wayne Franklin & Kris Wheeler with appearances by Emmylou Harris, John Oates, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Chris Thile, David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Jeff Hanna, Del McCoury, John Cowan, Jeff Austin, Scott Avett, The Avett Brothers, Woody Platt, Mike Guggino, Steep Canyon Rangers, Paul Hoffman, Greensky Bluegrass, Pat Flynn, and Sierra Hull. Nashville, TN -- Oct. 29, 2018 -- There was only one prize-winning teenager carrying stones big enough to say thanks, but no thanks to Roy Acuff. Only one son of Kentucky finding a light of inspiration from Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys and catching a fire from Bob Marley and The Wailers. Only one progressive hippie allying with like-minded conspirators, rolling out the newgrass revolution, and then leaving the genre’s torch-bearing band behind as it reached its commercial peak. There is only one consensus pick of peers and predecessors, of the traditionalists, the rebels, and the next gen devotees. Music’s ultimate inside outsider. Or is it outside insider? There is only one Sam Bush. |
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