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Mayer’s Picks – Best Songs of 2023, Part 2

Friday, December 29, 2023 By Mayer Danzig

I posted my list of favorite from the first half of 2023 back in June (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. Whatever Helps You Sleep, Abby Hamilton (from the Blue Gown Records release #1 Zookeeper (of the San […]

Filed Under: Americana, Best of Year, Blues, Country, Folk, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Videos Tagged With: Abby Hamilton, Allison Russell, Buddy and Julie Miller, Buddy Miller, Diane and the Gentle Men, Diane Gentile, Garrison Starr, Heather Horton, james maddock, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Jeff Plankenhorn, Jeremy Moses Curtis, Jerry Joseph, Jonah Tolchin, Joshua Ray Walker, Lauren Calve, Lydia Loveless, Margo Cilker, My Sister My Brother, Nathan Mongol Wells, Restos, Sean McConnell, Shadwick Wilde, Terra Lightfoot, William Matheny

Mayer’s Playlist for Fall/Winter 2023, Part 1

Thursday, December 28, 2023 By Mayer Danzig

Lydia Loveless

Toothache, Lydia Loveless (from the Bloodshot Records release Nothing’s Gonna Stand In My Way Again) Relationships are messy and few songwriters capture that fact better than Lydia Loveless. One need look no further than “Song About You”, the confessional ballad that opens their latest album. Against the backdrop that is mostly a lone electric guitar, […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Gospel, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, Videos Tagged With: Allison Russell, Blind Boys of Alabama, Buddy and Julie Miller, Buddy Miller, Diane Gentile, Erin Viancourt, Heather Horton, Jeff Plankenhorn, Lydia Loveless, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Terra Lightfoot

“Together Alone” – a Premiere From Jeff Plankenhorn

Wednesday, May 05, 2021 By Mayer Danzig

While we are by no means out of the woods, there is at least some semblance of hope emerging.  But even as we look forward, we can’t forget what we’ve experienced over the past 15 months.  That’s where our artists and musicians come into play.  Jeff Plankenhorn’s “Together Alone” conjures up the sense of isolation […]

Filed Under: Americana, Streams Tagged With: Jeff Plankenhorn, the Resentments

Mayer’s Picks – The Best of 2018 (So Far), the Songs

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

Here are some of my favorite songs this year. An eclectic lot to be sure. The Fold, Brent Cowles (from the Dine Alone Records release How To Be OK Alone) Easily my favorite song so far this year. Cowles confronts anxiety and self-doubt with a determined and uplifting anthem. Tough Folks, American Aquarium (from the […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Indie, Playlists, Pop, Rock, Roots, Soul/R&B Tagged With: American Aquarium, Andrew Duhon, Brent Cowles, Death By Unga Bunga, Eli Paperboy Reed, Fruition, High and Mighty Brass Band, Ian Moore, Jeff Plankenhorn, John Prine, Josh Buckley, Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster, Marie/Lepanto, Mia Dyson, Michael McDermott, Ruby Boots, Sam Morrow, Session Americana, The Shellye Valauskas Experience, Will Johnson

Readers’ Pick: Jeff Plankenhorn – Sleeping Dogs

Friday, May 11, 2018 By Tom Osborne

Jeff Plankenhorn - cover art

You picked Sleeping Dogs by singer-songwriter, Jeff Plankenhorn, as your favorite new release for the week of May 4, 2018. 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 Winter & Spring 2018 JEFF PLANKENHORN, […]

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Monday Morning Video – A Heavenly Premiere from Jeff Plankenhorn

Monday, April 23, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

Guitarist Jeff Plankenhorn has become something of an Austin institution, sought after by many artists to lend his musical talents to their albums and performances. Calling him a guitarist doesn’t quite do him justice, though. Sure, he’s designed his very own guitar – a custom lap steel guitar called, perhaps not surprisingly, “The Plank”. Give […]

Filed Under: Americana, Videos Tagged With: Jeff Plankenhorn

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