Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
The new album by Small Houses came out today on Yer Bird Records and therefore a perfect video of the day is the latest Small Houses video Our Sweet. It’s one of my own favorites from the excellent album Exactly Where You Wanted to Be. You can also now stream and buy the whole beautiful album at http://yerbirdrecords.bandcamp.com.
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I meant to do plenty of updates today, but instead I updated wordpress and ran into some problems. It took some time, but I hope I got things sorted out. If the site looks like a mess, then I probably didn’t. Anyway, it’s getting late, but there’s still time for one amazing video that I found from Slowcoustic last week.
Andy Oliveri is a UK-based folk singer-songwriter and the song A Heart That Sings Can Never Bleed is the a-side of a vinyl single that came out last november on istartedthefire Records. Such a great song and that hypnotic video by Miles Ridgway is just marvellous. Andy Oliveri also participated Slowcoustic’s Long May You Run, J.Tillman cover project with an excellent version of My Waking Days. This project is worthy of an own blog post later on, but hit this link if you want to hear the magic already. There’s already a lot of excellent versions from artists like Lotte Kestner (new Lotte Kestner album also out soon, is it this week or the next), Greater Pacific etc and there’s more to come. But more about J.Tillman later on. This is Andy Oliveri and A Heart That Sings Can Never Bleed.
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I’ve mentioned this at Twitter and Facebook, but this deserves a blog post as well. The Starfolk is a new group led by Brian Tighe. His former band The Hang Ups was marvellous and their album So We Go is a pop classic that everyone should own or at least hear. So it’s indeed exciting that Brian has a new band and they are releasing a debut album in april. This beautiful song From Above is an outtake from the upcoming album.
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I just went through some old blog drafts and it seems like I never posted this Shakey Graves video Word of Mouth I found back in april. I thought it was pretty amazing at the time and I still feel the same way. Originally it was meant to be video of the day #96, but better late than never and all the other cliches. Shakey Graves is a folk/country/blues troubadour from Texas. Find more songs/information about him on his facebook/bandcamp.
Video by Be Lie All who have a lot of great videos. Including another great one by Shakey Graves.