Canadian Daniel Romano released a wonderful vintage country album Sleep Beneath The Willow last year. It took the spot #14 on onechord.net’s album of the year list. The opener Time Forgot (To Change My Heart) has now a music video. Such a great song.. and there’s actually 3-4 better ones on the album. That’s how strong the album is.

Daniel Romano Website

Yer Bird Records will be re-releasing Tyler Butler’s Winter King on 20th of march. To celebrate the upcoming release, Tyler and Yer Bird have set up a video series and they will post a new live video every tuesday until the release. Winter King took some high positions on the year-end lists of my favourite folk-minded blogs (Slowcoustic, Common Folk Music) and it’s definitely time …

Simone Felice will release his new solo album in april 2012. I’m a long time fan and I’m really looking forward to the album. Especially because these first soundbites seem to be quite close to the material on the first The Duke & The King album, which was a five hearts album here at onechord.net and was also #3 on my top albums of the …

This is such a great song and I love this version of it. Partly because it reminds me of Shoes, but mostly because it’s just damn good. A perfect power pop song in my books. Hey Veronica by The Breakdowns.

The Breakdowns Website

I’ve been listening to the new Sassparilla album The Darndest Thing quite a lot during the last few weeks. This Portland-based group has created a pretty damn good americana album. This might not be the greatest video you’ll ever see, but I really like this song My First Lover and it’s not even my biggest favourite on the album. Beautifully crafted dark atmospheres.

Sassparilla Website

Just remembered that I’ve only posted this great new Woodpigeon song to my facebook. Canadian Woodpigeon recently released their new EP For Paolo and this is the beautiful title track. I love it.

Woodpigeon Website

The James Low Western Front will release their new album Whiskey Farmer on 21st of february. I already got it through Reviewshine and I’ve been listening to it a lot lately. Even pretty basic factory job becomes quite enjoyable, if you have this beautiful country-tinged album playing on your iPod while working. You can listen to the whole album on their bandcamp. Stars Don’t …

Australian Hurricane Fighter Plane is one of my new favourite bands. I really enjoyed their self-titled EP few months ago and I’ve been a dedicated follower of Hurricane Fighter Plane ever since. New vinyl single I Can’t Win / Leaving Town is coming out soon. Launch gig for the single is on friday 16th of december. You probably don’t need further details about the concert, …

As previously mentioned, the Finnish psych/garage/pop heroes Kevin are back in the game and the new album is due out in 2012. The first single A Lonely Place came out in early november and Finn Andersson has now created a wonderful music video for the song.

Kevin Website
Kevin photo: Risto Vauras

Small Houses from Michigan released beautiful, delicate and heartwarming album entitled North in early october. It is one of my favourite folk albums of the year. Today Small Houses published a charming music video for the title track North. Marvellous song, marvellous video.

Small Houses Website