Turner Cody is a New York-based songwriter and he just released a new album Hiding in Plain Sight. During the recent years, I’ve been very fond of the Turner Cody songbook. Especially his last two albums The Last of the Big Time Spenders and Plans and Schemes have spent a lot of time in my head and heart. The song I Know How I Feel About You is something that I hold very dear. One of my biggest song addictions of the past couple years. That’s only the brightest diamond though. There’s a lot of treasures in that songbook. All kinds of people from Reed to Richman comes to mind occasionally, but every song is still very much signature Turner Cody. Why this beautiful man isn’t world famous is one of life’s greater mysteries.

The new one Hiding in Plain Sight is another great addition to this song catalog. It’s only out on iTunes and Spotify (at least at the moment). Here are a couple of early favourites from the new album.

And here is I Know How I Feel About You from The Last Of the Big Time Spenders. It’s a fairly simple idea, but it’s such a lovely song. This song is a friend to me and life is better with this song and Turner Cody on it.

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And here’s a few more from Mr. Turner Cody.

Turner Cody Website

New Lydia Loveless album Real is coming out on Bloodshot Records on 19th of August. If you can’t wait few days for it, the album premiere is up at npr.org. Here’s the music video for the excellent first single Longer.

Lydia Loveless Website

I really should quit this blog, because I haven’t even managed to write about the new Austin Lucas album Between The Moon & The Midwest. I always end up in trouble with the albums that matter the most, because I want to write something better and more meaningful about them than just a quick little news entry. Then months fly by, because I can’t come up with anything that I would be happy about and one day I notice that the album(s) that matter the most to me, didn’t even get a mention. For example new Austin Lucas and Daniel Romano albums fall into this category. I suppose the good thing is that while these people might not be world famous, the readers of this little website are probably all aware of their greatness. So this is like preaching to a choir kind of thing.

Between The Moon & The Midwest came out early in the year on At The Helm Records (UK/Europe) and Last Chance Records (USA) and it’s one of my favourite albums of the year. The whole thing is absolutely gorgeous. Personal favourites are the opener Unbroken Hearts and it’s traditional country vibes, Wrong Side of the Dream that is beautiful duet with Lydia Loveless and the album closer Midnight. Austin Lucas sure knows how to end an album. Splinters was the biggest treasure on his previous album Stay Reckless and Midnight is the one that strikes me the hardest on this new album. So brilliant. The whole album is. You’ll definitely need to hear this one, if you already haven’t. Austin is timeless and Sally is forever.

It proved to be difficult to find album cuts to stream from the usual places, so here’s a great video of Austin performing the album opener Unbroken Hearts (video by Alex Berlin).

Austin Lucas Website