Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
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.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_hK2qyGlQc]
During 2011 I’ve watched Michael Claytor & Sam Moss video of a song called Hairpins so many times that you need to be a math specialist to be able to count them. Therefore I keep on checking out This is Gainesville / Music’s youtube every now and then to see if they’ve added more videos. Tonight I found two more and these are also wonderful. Without further ado, I let these beautiful people sing these beautiful songs (Courtesy of This Is Gainesville / Music and I will obviously remove them if they want to).
Michael Claytor & Sam Moss: Pines, Pines, Pines
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZLHZLnGwzY]
Michael Claytor & Sam Moss: Annabelle
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCAPglLLurU]
And of course I have to add Hairpins as well. Which means I won’t be able to go to sleep for a while even though It’s 3 am in Finland. I probably will be watching this over and over again for the next 30 minutes.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUOHqurmSTI]
I already wrote about the new Brown Bird album Salt For Salt a couple of months ago, but the album is actually coming out later this week. I just pre-ordered my copy tonight and got the download. I only quickly browsed through a couple of songs, so no opinions just high expectations at this point. But I know what I will be doing at work tomorrow. I will listen to this album, because good music makes hard physical work so much easier. Anyway, I just saw this great live video of Brown Bird playing Thunder & Lightning at WBUR studios and really enjoyed it. The song is also on the new album.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_LMMQqBwjk]
These great tracks are also on the new album.
Fingers to the Bone:
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/18674509″]
Bilgewater:
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/24925301″]
Brown Bird Website
The day job, ice hockey and Flavour of the Month meant that I didn’t have any time for the blog this week, but let’s break the silence with this beautiful video of One Day Closer To You. Yer Bird Records released Caleb Coy’s captivating lo-fi country/folk album Wild Desert Rose last year. This was my favourite song on it and it still sounds as wonderful as it did back then.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K1-GoTckjY]