One of my favorite discoveries from SXSW last year was Canadian powerhouse Terra Lightfoot. She’s a triple threat – her voice, guitar and songs come together with a fiery intensity. Lightfoot has just announced a new album, entitled New Mistakes, due on 13 October. Given how much I enjoyed her previous Every Time My Mind […]
Readers’ Pick: Tell The Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can by Ray Wylie Hubbard
You picked Tell The Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can by Austin-based americana artist, Ray Wylie Hubbard, as your favorite new release for the week of August 18, 2017. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us […]
Iron & Wine – Beast Epic
Iron & Wine (the moniker for singer/songwriter Sam Beam) had been toiling away in obscurity until his demo tapes fell into the hands of a Sub Pop. Sub Pop then released the recordings as is for what became “The Creek Drank the Cradle” in 2002. Sam Beam made hushed and thoughtful recordings highlighted by warm […]
Monday Morning Video – A Premiere from Paul Kelly
I’ve written about Paul Kelly on many occasions and with good reason – he is quite simply one of the greatest songwriters of his generation. Given that he has been releasing albums for more than 35 years, that puts him in some rarified air. Over the past several years, he has been on a particularly […]
Readers’ Pick: Just Like Medicine by A.J. Croce
You picked Just Like Medicine by Nashville-based singer-songwriter, A.J. Croce, as your favorite new release for the week of August 11, 2017. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. Readers’ Tops Summer 2017 NICOLE ATKINS, Goodnight […]
The Shopkeeper
Here at Twangville we spend pretty much all our time listening to and reviewing the latest Americana and roots music. Â We spend very little time talking about how it gets created in the first place, and how the music industry makes a living from genres that don’t attract the business machine that feeds, and feeds […]
Colter Wall/Colter Wall
Some of my favorite songwriters are storytellers. Even better are the ones that leave the endings a bit open so you can come to your own conclusions about the ending. Damien Jurado does this brilliantly, as does Neil Young. You can get lost in a song and see the characters as if reading a 300 […]
Monday Morning Video – Shane Nicholson
Yeah, I know Shane Nicholson has just released a new album. Truth be told, I haven’t heard it yet as I’m still stuck on his previous release. Here are two standouts from 2015’s Hell Breaks Loose, both heartfelt reflections on on life as a parent.
Readers’ Pick: Love and Blood by Shane Nicholson
You picked Love and Blood by Brisbane based singer-songwriter, Shane Nicholson, as your favorite new release for the week of July 28, 2017. Poll Results New Releases Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments. Readers’ Tops Summer 2017 NICOLE ATKINS, […]
Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native
The dictionary defines polyglot as someone who speaks many different languages. Â As evidenced by his latest album, Ben Sollee is a musical polyglot. Â Featuring his latest band, Kentucky Native, Ben covers many of the cultural music influences that became the folk music of Appalachia, and eventually bluegrass. Â He then overlaid that with the jazz influences […]