Jun 29, 2014
Jun 28, 2014
Saturday Night Music: Vern Gosdin
...well, lonely drinking in a dark smoky bar Saturday night music...
Jun 27, 2014
Jun 26, 2014
New Video: Caleb Caudle - Trade All the Lights
From his new album, Paint Another Layer on My Heart, here's Caleb Caudle with the brand spanking new video for "Trade All the Lights." Highly recommended to fans of The Replacements, John Moreland, Lucero, Bruce Springsteen and Ryan Adams.
A Mean FGL Radio Promo Ad
*It's actually called "Dirt," and it's supposedly not bro-country at all. We shall see.
Jun 25, 2014
A Little Good News
For the second week in a row, "Donkey" has had either a loss or no gain in airplay. One more and it's gone. Keep your fingers crossed. Even mainstream listeners have some level of standards, apparently.
Top Albums of 2014: 1/2 Report
This will change a great deal in the next 6 months, but it gives you a good snapshot of just how strong the music world is right now - despite my usual rantings and ravings otherwise.
1. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
2. Adam Faucett - Blind Water Finds Blind Water
3. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else
4. John Fullbright - Songs
5. Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis - Our Year
6. The War on Drugs - Lost In the Dream
7. Drive-by Truckers - English Oceans
8. Jimbo Mathus - Dark Night of the Soul
9. Fire Mountain - All Dies Down
10. Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - Dereconstructed
11. Old 97s - Most Messed Up
12. St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Half the City
13. Kelsey Waldon - The Goldmine
14. Caleb Caudle - Paint Another Layer on My Heart
15. Nikki Lane - All or Nothin'
16. Matt Woods - With Love From Brushy Mountain
17. Jason Eady - Daylight and Dark
18. Josh Nolan - Fair City Lights
19. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
20. Beck - Morning Phase
21. Whiskey Myers - Early Morning Shakes
22. Willie Nelson - Band of Brothers
23. Jeff Whitehead - Bloodhound Heart
24. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
25. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Favorite Songs of 2014: 1/2 Report
Here are my favorite songs of the year thus far. No rankings yet; they're arranged only in alphabetical order at this point. You may notice a glaring omission, namely Sturgill Simpson. Problem is, even after 30+ listens to Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (which you'll see on the best
albums list later today), I still can't pick out a favorite. If forced, I'd probably go with
"Turtles All the Way Down." A Spotify playlist has been added below.
Jun 24, 2014
Album Review: Kelsey Waldon - The Goldmine
Kelsey Waldon is so country, she never has to mention it on the entirety of her new album, yet you know it from the first word she sings (the first note, in fact). Her voice is effortlessly twangy and personable and The Goldmine proudly hails from a lineage of Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Lee Ann Womack and the like.
There's a warm, hazy glow over the whole affair, like an old rural bar where half the lights are blown and they still let you smoke inside. It's strangely comfortable, but behind every set of glazed eyes, there's a sad tale and the potential for things to get dangerous.
"Town Clown" leads off the bunch with a tune about how gossip often becomes generally accepted as truth in a small town. Do you like self-pity? Do you like steel guitar? I do, and if you don't, here's where you should jump off.
The title track continues the drenched in steel approach. In it, Kelsey proclaims her preference for satisfaction over money in a relationship with a man whose financial gains may or may not be entirely on the up and up.
"High in Heels" is my favorite off The Goldmine. It's sassy and tragic at once. I'm fairly certain it's about a daughter having to resort to desperate measures to keep her broken family fed, but you may read it differently.
Kelsey Waldon sounds more vulnerable and confessional than say, Loretta Lynn, on these 11 tracks but she's every bit as confident. Hers is a sweet voice that belies a depth of realism and a spirit that forgives but never forgets. It's a world-weary but optimistic outlook that keeps The Goldmine from ever sinking into despair. It's a moving and memorable album that should easily satisfy fans of classic country and modern Americana, and make Waldon an artist to watch for years to come.
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The Goldmine is available for purchase on Bandcamp.
Douchenbach (Parody Lyric)
Douchenbach, Georgia
(Lyric Parody of Waylon & Willie's "Luckenbach, TX")
The only two things in life that make it worth livin'
Is DJs that drop bass and ass shakin' women
I just need my name on a tatt that's tight
I bust my rhymes so you'll go down on me tonight
Maybe it's time we got this Chevy stuck in the mud
Let's go to Douchenbach, Georgia
With Aldean and Brantley and the dudes
Get these Rockford Fosgates kickin'
We'll be crankin' up the Fiddy and Ja Rule
Between Hank Junior's boozin' and
FGL's Cruisin' and Juvy backin' that thang up
Out in Douchenbach, Georgia everybody's raisin' they cups
So baby let's buy some wallet chains
Square toed boots and shiny jeans and go away
This mowing yards has got to stop
And working at your beauty shop, you cry all day
We've been so busy living home with our moms
They won't let us smoke and throw out our beer bongs
Maybe it's time we got this Chevy stuck in the mud
Let's go to Douchenbach, Georgia
With Colt Ford, Cole Swindell and the bros
Get these Rockford Fosgates kickin'
We'll be crankin' up some Chingy and some J-Kwon tho'
Between Snoop Doggy's tokin' and
Limp Bizkit Rollin' and Toby Keith kickin' some ass
Out in Douchenbach, Georgia everybody's raisin' they glass
Let's go to Douchenbach, Georgia
With Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and the dudes
Get these Rockford Fosgates kickin'
We'll be crankin' up the Fiddy and Ja Rule
Between Hank Junior's boozin' and
FGL's Cruisin' and Juvy backin' that thang up
Out in Douchenbach, Georgia everybody's raisin' they cups
Jun 23, 2014
New Video: Jon Pardi - What I Can't Put Down
What's this? Mainstream country? On FTM? I gave this guy's new album a shot last week and was happily surprised. It's not bad at all, and this new single is strong.
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