Sweet Saint Me is Two Cow Garage’s fifth record. This is significant. Craig Finn of the Hold Steady recently expounded on the fifth album concept. Upon the release of his band’s latest opus and fifth record, he talked about the significance of a fifth album for a band, noting that most bands-even the successful ones- […]
EP Round-Up (Jill Andrews, Cary Ann Hearst, Hannah Miller, Jon Drake, and Luke Elliot)
Jill Andrews- S/T Jill Andrews was half of the late-great, under-the-radar band The Everybodyfields. With partner in crime Sam Quinn, Andrews created up beat yet haunting folk music. Their three records together were a sublime synthesis of folk, bluegrass, rock, and indie influences. They grew a fairly devoted cult like fan base before calling it […]
Kasey Anderson Unveils Heart of A Dog
For those Kasey Anderson fans out there, good news arrives in the form a new album. Heart of A Dog is the follow-up to this year’s critically acclaimed Nowhere Nights. Here’s Kasey unveiling the new record: Starting today, and running every Friday for the next 11 weeks (until Dec. 10), I’ll be posting a tune […]
Two Cow Garage- “Lydia”
One of America’s greatest (and most under-rated) rock and roll band’s is at it again. Two Cow Garage’s latest opus, Sweet Saint Me, is due out October 26th. The fellows’ record label Suburban Home Records is giving us some early tasters though. Check out the video for the first single “Lydia” below. Two Cow Garage […]
Horse Feathers- Thistled Spring
A piano echoes. A string section sweeps in, falls and then rises again. Then Justin Ringle’s voice emerges from the fog and dances with the lush instrumentation. This is how the title and first track of Horse Feathers’ new album Thistled Spring begins. The band specializes in a gorgeous, atmospheric brand of folk music that, […]
Newport Folk Festival 2010 (Part Two)
Day two of the Newport Folk Festival dawned with even better weather than the day before. With the giant bridge gleaming at me in the background, I trekked from the parking lot straight to the set of Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons. I had seen Cory’s name around a lot recently, opening up for […]
Kathleen Edwards- Northampton, MA (07.21.10)
Kathleen Edwards is one of my favorite singer-songwriters. Though sometimes dismissively lumped in with Tift Merritt, Allison Moorer, and other female alt. country singers, she has released 3 overwhelmingly consistent and great albums. With a penchant for writing songs that seems to write themselves and a sound that makes the alternative country genre sound like […]
Newport Folk Festival 2010 (Part One)
I’m really learning to love the Newport Folk Festival. This was my second year in attendance and I have been consistently impressed not only with the quality of the line-up, but also with the relaxed atmosphere. Music runs from about 11:30am to 7:30pm on 3 stages in Fort Adams State Park, Newport, Rhode Island on […]
Old 97’s- Mimeograph
‘Mimeograph’ is a road/official merch site only release from one alt. country’s best bands, the Old 97’s. The four song EP includes covers of “Rocks Off†(The Rolling Stones), “For The Girl†(The Fratellis), “Driver 8†(REM) and “Five Years†(David Bowie). We here at Twangville have teamed together to offer you takes on each […]
Alejandro Escovedo- Northampton, MA (07.21.10)
I never quite ‘got’ Alejandro Escovedo. I had a couple of his records and liked any number of his songs (though unlike a certain former president, “Castanets†was not among my favorites). But I didn’t really get it. How did the editors over at No Depression say that this guy was the Artist of the […]