Micah Schnabel – Your New Norman Rockwell

A long time favourite Micah Schnabel dropped a new solo album yesterday. Your New Norman Rockwell is a great addition to the Micah Schnabel collection that contains both excellent solo albums and bunch of albums with his rock’n’roll band Two Cow Garage. The new album contains a lot of passionate spoken word songs that turn out to be just as impressive as Two Cow Garage’s energetic rock anthems. The only possible issue that might rise in the future is that the albums spoken word folk poetry side might not stand the test of excessive repetitive listening as well Two Cow’s (should-be) hits. I’m not going to worry about what will happen in a few months time though, because at the moment the album feels and sounds extremely powerful, thought-provoking and impressive. Here’s the first single Jazz and Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the video for album cut called The Interview. The album is now out on Last Chance Records in the states (probably on At The Helm in Europe).

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Gold Star – Big Blue

Why haven’t I been properly listening to Gold Star until tonight? Gold Star aka L.A. based country-folk musician Marlon Rabenreither is a pretty damn good songwriter and vocalist. His latest album Big Blue came out on 24th of March on Autumn Tone Records and I’m thoroughly enjoying it at the moment. Lucinda Williams also seem to think highly of him and his songs and well who am I to disagree with Lucinda. This is rather brilliant west coast americana. I need to buy either a download or physical copy asap and let myself sink deeper into the songs of Gold Star. Here’s a couple of songs that first caught my ear, but any of the album cuts would do equally well.

Gold Star Website

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Callan Furlong – What’s Left Of Me / Out On The Town

Callan Furlong is a young Toronto-based troubadour who delivers warmhearted and charming old-timey country sounds. I enjoyed his debut EP The Fool I Was Before several years ago and therefore every now and then I’ll check out if he has released something new. It’s been rather quiet, but a few days ago my email alerted about a new Callan Furlong release. So I went, listened, loved and downloaded the two new songs What’s Left Of Me and Out On The Town. These utterly lovely songs are available on his Bandcamp for name-your-price deal.

Callan Furlong at Facebook

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