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Mayer’s Picks – The Best of 2025 (So Far), the Songs

Thursday, July 03, 2025 By Mayer Danzig

Wrong End & Black Snake, Mojave Blues, Balto (from the self-released No Hard Feeling) These two songs represent the scope of Balto’s musical power – the unbridled rock and roll fury of “Black Snake, Mojave Blues” and the powerful emotion of “Wrong End”, the band’s seeming farewell to music: I don’t believe in songs no moreIn the long dead horse […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Indie Rock, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, Videos Tagged With: Andrew Duhon, Andy Frasco, Balto, Ben de la Cour, Ben Kweller, Charles Wesley Godwin, Galactic, Irma Thomas, Jason Isbell, Joshua Ray Walker, Kirby Baby, Kirby Brown, Kris Delmhorst, Michigander, Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Palmyra, Patterson Hood, Pete Mancini, Ward Hayden, Ward Hayden and the Outliers, Willie Nile

Monday Morning Video: Amy Black and Ward Hayden

Monday, September 02, 2013 By Mayer Danzig

If one considers this video alongside this video that I posted a few weeks back, one might get the impression that Amy Black and Ward Hayden (of Girls Guns and Glory) like to sit around their houses playing songs.  Come to think of it, that doesn’t sound so bad. Well, apparently they don’t just sit […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Country, Videos Tagged With: Amy Black, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Ward Hayden

Monday Morning Video: Sittin’ Around the Kitchen Singin’ George Jones

Monday, July 15, 2013 By Mayer Danzig

There’s a cool house concert series in Boston called the Kitchen Sessions. Well, Ward Hayden of Girls Guns & Glory, Amy Black and Sarah Borges stake their claim on that particular room with this killer cover of George Jones’ “Why Baby Why.” The trio, rehearsing for an upcoming set of shows that they are doing […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Country, Videos Tagged With: Amy Black, George Jones, Girls Guns and Glory, Sarah Borges, Ward Hayden

Friends of Twangville

Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of February 27?

  • Rose’s Pawn Shop – American Seams (22%, 8 Votes)
  • Iron & Wine – Hen’s Teeth (17%, 6 Votes)
  • Bill Frisell – In My Dreams (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Luke Winslow-King – Coast of Light (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Lil Ed & The Blues Imperial – Slideways (11%, 4 Votes)
  • Pert Near Sandstone – Side by Side (8%, 3 Votes)
  • Julianna Riolino – Echo in the Dust (8%, 3 Votes)
  • Buck Meek – The Mirror (6%, 2 Votes)
  • A Thousand Horses – White Flag Down (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Clayton Chaney – Too Far (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Jake Soffer & Brent Carter – Imaginary Rooms (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Catfish John Tisdell – Stayin’ Out All Night (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Adam Weil – A Little Broken (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Lamisi – Let Us Clap (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Ben Sollee – Time On Hold (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 36

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