Topi Saha has three new song on his myspace and oh my.. I’m in love.. the songs are absolutely wonderful. This guy is ready to become one of the finest folk troubadours in the country. We need a record. These three beauties and some old treasures (like Hämeentie 61) could be a really strong foundation for a brilliant folk album.
News: Jukka Takalo
Jukka Takalo’s new Homo EP will be released on 28th of april by SOF. This is a new dogma video for the lead track Jokainen on vähän homo.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejE_37dx_A]
News: Penniless
Well old news actually, because I’ve been a lazy boy suffering from playoff fever. Anyway, the next Penniless album is due out next fall and the first single Brothers was released some weeks ago. You can buy it for example here. The song is of course wonderful and I’m really looking forward to the album.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBHD0muwf2o]
Austin Lucas in Finland
Austin Lucas will play five concerts in Finland next week (at least hopefully, I suppose there might be some problems if he is planning to fly over and the volcanic ash continues to cause flight cancellations). He has toured here before so lot of you probably know how great he really is. I haven’t seen him live, because I didn’t know his music before last december. Then I heard his latest album Somebody Loves You and totally fell in love with it. Recently I bought that Bristle Bridge album he made with Chuck Ragan and it’s almost as wonderful. He is definitely a first class country troubadour. Unfortunately he is not coming to my hometown Turku this time around and if I’m true to myself I probably can’t afford to go to see him in another town. However, I’m good at lying to myself and in the end I might find myself from one of these places:
TUE 4/27 TAMPERE, Klubi
WED 4/28 HELSINKI, Belly w/ Jarkko Martikainen
THU 4/29 LAPPEENRANTA, Lucky Monkey’s w/ Mambohammer
FRI 4/30 JYVASKYLA, Lutakko w/ Presley Bastards, Deathbed, Lighthouse Project
SAT 5/1 HEINAVESI, Gasthaus
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9T3OUKXbnw]