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Mayer’s Picks, More 2024 Favorites

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

Here, in no particular order, are more favorites from 2024.

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Outlaw Country, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Adeem the Artist, Dustin Lowman, Fancy Gap, Fruition, Golden Everything, Goodnight Texas, Heather Little, Jeffrey Foucault, Jesse Dayton, John Calvin Abney, John Moreland, Jon Muq, Lydia Loveless, Maggie Rose, Melanie MacLaren, Michelle Malone, Paul Kelly, Sam Morrow, Silverada, The Damnwells, The FBR, The Great Dying, The HawtThorns, Tyler-James Kelly

Mayer’s Playlist for Summer 2024, Part 2

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

The Money or the Time, Goodnight Texas (from the 2 Cent Bank Check Records release Signals) Goodnight Texas have built a career around storytelling. Their early albums were thematic period pieces, snapshots of time vividly captured in song. Later albums, including the recently released Signals, may lack an overarching narrative but are no less compelling […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Outlaw Country, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Benny Trokan, Fancy Gap, Goodnight Texas, Greg In Good Company, Helen Rose, L.A. Edwards, Maggie Baring, Marley Hale, Steve Earle, The Damnwells, The Great Dying

SXSW 2023 – The Sounds, Part 4

Thursday, March 30, 2023 By Mayer Danzig

Sir Woman

SIR WOMAN Sir Woman celebrated their 2023 Austin Music Awards Band of the Year award by, well, playing all over town.  I caught their last set – on Sunday afternoon – where singer-songwriter Kelsey Wilson led the group, including featured vocalists Spice and Roy Jr., through a wonderous and soulful performance.    GOODNIGHT TEXAS Another band […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, SXSW Tagged With: Bilk, Broken Gold, Gabe Lee, Goodnight Texas, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Margo Price, S. Raekwon, Sir Woman, Sunny War, The Nude Party, West Texas Exiles

Mayer’s Picks – The Best of 2022 (So Far), the Songs

Thursday, July 07, 2022 By Mayer Danzig

Meant to Be, BER & Charlie Oriain (from the self-released And I’m Still Thinking About That) A wonderful discovery at this year’s SXSW… and one of my favorite songs so far this year. But I think you’re the one for someone else And that shit’s hard to say It’s okay, you feel the same and I can […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Outlaw Country, Playlists, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Streams, Videos Tagged With: BER, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Caroline Spence, David Ramirez, Eric Ambel, Fruition, Goodnight Texas, Jesper Lindell, Juni Ata, Matt Andersen, Rural Alberta Advantage, Ryan Culwell, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Sophie & the Broken Things, Steve Earle, Steve Earle & The Dukes, The Whitmore Sisters, Wood Willow

Mayer’s Picks – the Best of 2022 (So Far), the Albums

Thursday, July 07, 2022 By Mayer Danzig

Twilights by Jesper Lindell Sweden’s Lindell makes true Americana that channels the spirit of the Band, a point he emphasizes with a great cover of that group’s “Twilight”.  It’s Lindell’s own compositions and the arrangements that bring the songs to life, however, that make Twilights such a memorable experience.    How Long Will It Take Them […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Folk, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter Tagged With: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Caroline Spence, David Ramirez, Goodnight Texas, Grant-Lee Phillips, Jesper Lindell, Juni Ata, Matt Andersen, Michael McDermott, Sarah Borges, The Whitmore Sisters, Wood Willow

Mayer’s Playlist for Feb/Mar 2022, Part 1

Thursday, February 24, 2022 By Mayer Danzig

The Ballad of Sissy & Porter, The Whitmore Sisters (from the Red House Records release Ghost Stories) There’s a throwback quality to the Whitmore Sisters’ Ghost Stories.  Sure, sisters Eleanor and Bonnie have magical familial harmonies that recall The Everly Brothers.  It’s the songs and arrangements, however, that hearken back to a bygone era when […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Charlie Sutton, Goodnight Texas, Jesse Adelman, Ryan Culwell, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, The Whitmore Sisters

The Twangville Early 2022 Release Preview

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 By Mayer Danzig

Meet the new year. Same as the old? Not so much on the music front with a great batch of new music on the horizon. Here are some releases eagerly anticipated by the Twangville posse. Hell on Church Street by Punch Brothers (14 January) The virtuoso string quintet remind us yet again why they are […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie Rock, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Del McCoury, Goodnight Texas, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Jamie McDell, Khruangbin, Leon Bridges, punch brothers, Ryan Culwell, Sarah Borges, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Shovels & Rope, Silver Lining, Spoon, Steve Dawson, Susan Cattaneo, The Whitmore Sisters, Tinsley Ellis

Monday Morning Video – Goodnight, Texas “Dearest Sarah”

Monday, May 31, 2021 By Mayer Danzig

Back in 2014, Goodnight, Texas released the album Uncle John Farquhar, a series of stories set in the Civil War era. Among them was a song based on a letter that soldier Sullivan Ballou wrote to his wife Sarah shortly before his death at the Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Sarah my love for […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Videos Tagged With: Goodnight Texas

Mayer’s Picks – Best Songs of 2019, Part 2

Thursday, January 09, 2020 By Mayer Danzig

I posted my list of favorite from the first half of 2019 back in July (here). Rather than replicate that list for my full year review, consider this a continuation — the best songs from the second half of the year. Have You Seen My Girl, Todd May (from the self-released Let’s Go Get Lost) […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Indie, Indie Rock, Outlaw Country, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Austin Plaine, Dalton Domino, Fruition, Goodnight Texas, Greg Klyma, Jason Hawk Harris, Jesse Dayton, John Calvin Abney, Matthew Ryan, Ottoman Turks, Session Americana, The Hold Steady, Todd May, Vincent Neil Emerson, Ward Hayden and the Outliers

Mayer’s Picks – Best of 2019, The EPs

Tuesday, December 31, 2019 By Mayer Danzig

As more and more artists are transitioning from albums to EPs, I thought I’d highlight a few of my faves in that medium. Here, in no particular order, are some of my favorite EPs of 2019 GOODNIGHT, TEXAS, The Senseless Age JESSE TERRY + ALEX WONG, Kivalina ANTHONY D’AMATO, Five Songs from New Orleans RADICAL […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Folk, Indie, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter Tagged With: Alex Wong, Anthony D'Amato, Goodnight Texas, Jesse Terry, Leland Sundries, Radical Face

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Friends of Twangville

Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of May 16?

  • Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (31%, 10 Votes)
  • Charlie Musselwhite – Lookout Highway (19%, 6 Votes)
  • Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (9%, 3 Votes)
  • Barenaked Ladies – IN FLIGHT – CARRY ON (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Dan Mangan – Natural Light (6%, 2 Votes)
  • The Talbott Brothers – Borderlands (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Peter Rowan – Tales of The Free Mexican Airforce (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Kat Hasty – The Time of Your Life (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Ben Hackett – Songs for Sleeping Dogs (3%, 1 Votes)
  • The Lowtimers – Cracks (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Suzie Brown – Songs Worth Saving (3%, 1 Votes)
  • BEATrio – BEATrio (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Erin Durant – Firetrail (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Sweet Megg – Never Been Home (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Christian Rutledge – An Inch Of This New York Mile (0%, 0 Votes)
  • The Travelin’ McCourys – One Chord That Rings True (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 32

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