Kitchen-table harmonies, a banjo thesis on Bach, a voice made for a raucous Saturday night, and the guy who was playing Americana before it had a name. Two bills at Groove in NYC’s West Village this July, the 9th and the 19th, both at 7pm.
July 9 — Golden Everything + Danny Golden 7pm at Groove, West Village TICKETS
Golden Everything is a Nashville husband-and-wife duo making the kind of unhurried Americana that sounds like it was figured out at the kitchen table. Their new single “Better Day” is out now, with an acoustic EP, Down Time, due later this summer—two voices, one guitar, no overdubs, recorded the way they’d play it in their living room.
Danny Golden grew up in Pittsburgh, studied philosophy and bluegrass banjo at Colorado College (his senior thesis reworked Bach for bluegrass instruments), and has spent the last decade in Austin turning all of that into his own restless brand of folk-leaning Americana. His new album, The Big Blue, arrives June 24.
July 19 — Sophie Gault + Eric Ambel 7pm at Groove, West Village TICKETS
Sophie Gault is a Nashville rocker with a midnight voice and a weakness for last-call rock and roll. Her third album, Unhinged, lives up to the title—a fast, reckless ride through cow-punk and backroom heartbreak, razor-edged but never without a sly grin.
Eric “Roscoe” Ambel—often called the “Godfather of Americana”—was playing this music before the genre had a name. An original Blackheart and a veteran of the Del-Lords and Steve Earle’s Dukes, he stepped out on his own with his 1988 solo debut, Roscoe’s Gang. When he’s not on stage he’s behind the board at Cowboy Technical Services, where he’s produced the Bottle Rockets, Nils Lofgren, and Sarah Borges; his own latest is You Asked For It (2022).
About the author: Mild-mannered corporate executive by day, excitable Twangville denizen by night.