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Mayer’s Playlist for Fall 2023

Thursday, September 14, 2023 By Mayer Danzig

Alameda, Anna Rose (from the White Pony/Electric Child Music release Last Girl of the Rodeo) Anna Rose doesn’t pull any punches – lyrically or musically – on Last Girl of the Rodeo. The LP cycles through the collapse of a relationship, bleeding raw emotion as it does. The deeply brooding “Whatever Gets You Through the […]

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Anna Rose, Ashton Nyte, Bark, Esther Rose, james maddock, Shinyribs, Whitney Rose

Monday Morning Video – Whitney Rose and Brennen Leigh

Monday, September 11, 2023 By Mayer Danzig

Both Brennen Leigh and Whitney Rose are celebrating newly released albums – Rose’s Rosie was released back in May while Leigh’s Ain’t Through Honky Tonkin’ Yet arrived in June. But let’s take it back two years to 2021 when the two teamed up to cover Concrete Blonde’s classic “Joey”.

Filed Under: Americana, Videos Tagged With: Brennen Leigh, Concrete Blonde, Johnette Napolitano, Whitney Rose

Readers’ Pick: Best Album of 2020

Friday, January 01, 2021 By Tom Osborne

Whitney Rose – We Still Go to Rodeos (cover art)

Congratulations to Whitney Rose for landing in the top spot of Twangville’s Readers’ Pick of 2020 poll.  Full results below. Our annual wrap up is up next.

Filed Under: Readers' Pick Tagged With: Whitney Rose

Mayer’s Playlist for Fall 2017, Part 2

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 By Mayer Danzig

No Heart Left Behind, Hannah Aldridge (from the Rootsy Music release Gold Rush) “I take my heartache with a little bit of ice,” announces Muscle Shoals-raised Hannah Aldridge on “Burning Down Birmingham,” one of several stand-outs from her latest release. Electric guitars lead the charge, sometimes chugging with an insistent stoicism and other times unleashing […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Outlaw Country, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Streams Tagged With: Antonio Lulic, Daniel Romano, David Ramirez, Hannah Aldridge, Hellbound Glory, Roger Clyne, The Yawpers, Whitney Rose, Willie Nile

SXSW 2016 – The Scene

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 By Mayer Danzig

For me, the true harbinger of spring is the arrival of the SXSW Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas. Or rather, spring begins for me when I arrive in Austin for SXSW. With upwards of 2,200 bands and more than 20,000 attendees from around the world, SXSW is the world’s premiere music conference. Even […]

Filed Under: Americana, Bluegrass, Country, Pop, Rock, SXSW Tagged With: Arkells, Avett Brothers, Dion, Elephant Stone, George Clinton, George Strait, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Vaughan, Leon Russell, Library Voices, Loretta Lynn, Ray Benson, Sam Outlaw, Terra Lightfoot, The Trews, The Wet Secrets, Whitney Rose

Whitney Rose on Leaving No Granola Bar Behind and Why Ignorance Is Bliss

Tuesday, October 06, 2015 By Mayer Danzig

Canadian songstress Whitney Rose reveals who in her band gets up early enough to enjoy complimentary hotel continental breakfasts and talks about singing an a cappella rendition of the Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace” when she was in kindergarten.

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Why It Matters Tagged With: Whitney Rose

Mayer’s Playlist for September 2015

Thursday, September 24, 2015 By Mayer Danzig

Into the Deep, Galactic (from the Provogue release Into the Deep) There’s a lesson to be learned across the eleven tracks that make up Galactic’s latest release. I can’t recall a record in recent memory that is so musically diverse yet sounds so cohesive. It is a testament to the New Orleans-based quintet’s immense musical […]

Filed Under: Americana, Folk, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Streams Tagged With: Dan Bern, Galactic, Jeffrey Foucault, Michael Rank, The Batture Boys, Tracy Bonham, Whitney Rose

Monday Morning Video – Whitney Rose with Raul Malo

Monday, August 17, 2015 By Mayer Danzig

Last month we featured Eilen Jewell and the Sweetback Sisters paying tribute to the Ronettes with a performance of the “Be My Baby.” Not surprisingly the legendary song is a favorite of many artists. Singer-songwriter Whitney Rose recorded the song for her new release Heartbreaker of the Year. Joining her on the track is album […]

Filed Under: Americana, Pop, Videos Tagged With: Raul Malo, The Mavericks, Whitney Rose

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