| Greg Trooper; "Foating"; Sugar Hill Records, For the first time on a very respected great Americana-bluegrass label, Sugar Hill Records, a great guy named Greg Trooper. A small man with a great voice and always a big smile and very friendly. I've meth this guy several times on a concert in The Netherlands. Gregg has a bunch of good albums wich you need to have otherwise it's a big black hole in your music culture. Greg Trooper is a well known singer/songwriter by artists as Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and other artists, who knows his quality when they heard him and some of them cut his songs. "Floating" view's songs about love, about loss, about right and wrong, about dead and drift in the stream of life, all drawn from years of experiences, musical and otherwise, and distelled to akind of purity that has nothing to do with glitz. Gregg plays also this time with one of my favorite guitar players, Phil Madeira. Great album with beautiful songs and great music. www.gregtrooper.com |
| Terri Hendrix; "The Ring" Willory Records This San Antonio, Texas singer/songwriter had a lot of good albums in the past like "Two Dollar Shoes", Willory Farm", "Terri Hendrix Live", "In Between", and "Live In San Marco". "The Ring" is her most recent release on her own label Willory Records. This one is produced by herself and Texas Legend Lloyd Maines who plays also several instruments and singing on this new one. The Ring brings us a drivers mix of musical styles like folk, country, pop, rock, tex-mex, bluegrass and some jazz "from another planet". Terri always followed her own path in music world to get where she's today, a very respected Texas singer/songwriter. "Writing completes me", says Terri, "It's the backtone of everything I do". Terri Hendrix was several times over here in Europe to do some fine concerts together with Lloyd Maines. We can hardly waith to see here again. www.terrihendrix.com |
| Neko Case; "Blacklisted" Matador records To hear Niko Case it's always a musical adventure. She recorded and co-produced "Blacklisted" in Tucson, Arizona at wavelab studio with producers Darryl Neudorf and Craig Schumacherwho were both open to Case's desire to be "really adventurous and always ready to try something new". Unlike her previous releases, Neko wrote most of the songs and played a wide variety of the instruments on Blacklisted. She also records and performs as one of The New Pornographers, Who released an album of rollicking guitar pop wich received a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album. On this moment they are working on a second release. "Blacklisted" is a beautiful musical story ,singing by a wonderful voice and great musicians like joining her are longtime Neko collaborators Jon Rauhouse and Tom V.Ray, and Dallas Good (The Sadies). She also asked Joey Burns and John Convertino (Calexico), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Brian Connelly (Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Atomic 7), Kelly Hogan, and Mary Margaret O'Hara to lend their talents. www.mintrecs.com |
| Ronny Elliott, "Hep"; Blue Heart Records Ronny Elliott is a real story teller. "Hep" is his sixed album on Blue Heart Records. They call him The Hillbilly soulsinger from Tampa for nearly fourthy years. "Hep" continues with the story of heroes and losers from the dark to the irrevent and giddy. Ronny Elliott brings us real Americana music on his best with the second voice of "The Nationals" Natty Moss-Bond. Ronny is an amazingly inventive, talented songwriter, without forsaking thoughtful lyrical content. It's always a big surprice to hear new songs from this legend. Ronny has made another wonderful masterpiece. www.ronnyelliott.com |
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