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Monday Morning Video – Matthew Sweet

Monday, October 28, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

Matthew Sweet emerged in the era of grunge and broke through by combining the intensity of that genre with the melodic grandeur of power pop. The results were potent. Sweet recently suffered a massive stroke while on tour in Canada. Like many independent musicians, Sweet doesn’t have adequate insurance coverage. He now faces a long […]

Filed Under: Rock, Videos Tagged With: John Hiatt, Matthew Sweet

Monday Morning Video – John Hiatt “Slow Turning”

Monday, August 30, 2021 By Mayer Danzig

Sharing this performance not because John Hiatt is a masterful songwriter (although he is) but rather for a particular lyrical reference. Now I’m in my carI got the radio downAn’ I’m a’yellin’ at the kids in the back‘Cause they’re bangin’ like’a Charlie Watts This performance, featuring Sonny Landreth (tucked away in the back on slide […]

Filed Under: Americana, Videos Tagged With: John Hiatt, Sonny Landreth

Readers’ Pick: John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band – Leftover Feelings

Friday, May 28, 2021 By Tom Osborne

John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band – Leftover Feelings (cover art)

You picked John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band – Leftover Feelings as your favorite new release for the week of May 21, 2020. 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 2021 […]

Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: John Hiatt, The Jerry Douglas Band

Monday Morning Video – Celebrating Levon Helm at the Ryman

Monday, April 19, 2021 By Mayer Danzig

Levon Helm is an Americana, hell, an all-around music legend who we lost nine years ago today. Here are two celebrations of the man at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The first is a Levon Helm’s Ramble show from 2009 and features the man himself, as well as John Hiatt, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Miller, Sam […]

Filed Under: Americana, Videos Tagged With: Amy Helm, Bonnie Raitt, Booker T Jones, Brittany Howard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Levon Helm, Richard Thompson, Sam Bush

Mayer’s Picks – Best Songs of 2018, Part 2

Wednesday, December 26, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

I posted my list of favorite from the first half of 2018 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. Right On Time, Kevin Gordon (from the Crowville Media release Tilt and Shine) A […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Folk, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Streams Tagged With: Austin Lucas, Cut Throat Finches, David Ramirez, Glorietta, Jaimee Harris, Jeffrey Foucault, John Calvin Abney, John Hiatt, Kevin Gordon, Kirby Brown, Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires, Lucero, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, The Bottle Rockets, The Wolff Sisters, Vanessa Peters

Mayer’s Playlist for Fall 2018, Part 2

Thursday, December 06, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues, Larkin Poe (from the Tricki-Woo Records release Venom & Faith) Although The Lovell Sisters hail from Georgia and now live in Nashville, their latest album is mostly steeped in Mississippi blues. And by that I mean some down-home, dirty blues. They make an immediate – and powerful – musical statement with […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Blues, Folk, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Streams Tagged With: Adam Faucett, Adam's House Cat, Antonio Lulic, Brother Brothers, Creamer, Drive-By-Truckers, Glorietta, John Hiatt, Larkin Poe, The Bottle Rockets, Will Hoge

Monday Morning Video – John Hiatt and the Goners

Monday, January 22, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

With one notable exception, my live concert year is off to a phenomenal start. The most recent addition to the list was John Hiatt, joined by Sonny Landreth and the Goners. The foursome revisited Hiatt’s seminal album Slow Turning in its entirety, every musical nook and cranny resounding with an infectious energy. Landreth, in particular, […]

Filed Under: Americana, Rock, Videos Tagged With: John Hiatt, Sonny Landreth

Lilly Hiatt – Royal Blue

Thursday, March 12, 2015 By Chip Frazier

The skeptics tend to come out of the woodwork when the progeny of a well-known musician launches a career. To be true, their caution is often warranted. One listen to Lilly Hiatt’s new release “Royal Blue” silences all doubt. This is her second album; and it firmly establishes Hiatt as a gifted artist who is […]

Filed Under: Alternative, Americana, Indie, Reviews Tagged With: John Hiatt, Lilly Hiatt

Mayer’s Picks – Best Songs of 2014

Friday, December 26, 2014 By Mayer Danzig

I posted a best songs list for the first half of 2014 back in July (here). Rather than replicate that list for my full year review, consider this the continuation — the best songs from the second half of the year. An Anthem for the Broken and A Song to Learn and Sing (Until Kingdom […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Indie, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Bruce Springsteen, Caleb Caudle, Girls Guns and Glory, Joe Pug, John Fullbright, John Hiatt, Lydia Loveless, Matthew Ryan, Reed Foehl, Rod Melancon, Sarah Borges, Strand of Oaks

Mayer’s Picks – More Favorites from 2014

Thursday, December 11, 2014 By Mayer Danzig

Here, in no particular order, are a few more favorites from 2014. And the War CameShakey Graves The Shipwreck From the ShoreAnthony D’Amato HealStrand of Oaks Parker MillsapParker Millsap All or Nothin’Nikki Lane Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill BroonzyDave Alvin and Phil Alvin Eli Paperboy […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Pop, Rock, Rockabilly Tagged With: Anthony D'Amato, Cheap Girls, Dave Alvin, Eli Paperboy Reed, Evan Phillips, Jimbo Mathus, John Hiatt, Leeroy Stagger, Marty Stuart, Nikki Lane, Otis Gibbs, Parker Millsap, Phil Alvin, Rodney Crowell, Shakey Graves, Shovels and Rope, Strand of Oaks, Tim Easton

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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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