Another week, another weekly playlist.

The blog was pretty much on hold for a week, because the well-being of our cat Luna was my only concern. It was a really scary week that included a vet visit that went horribly wrong, because Luna got complications from the anesthesia. There’s still some concern, but thankfully our brave girl is doing a lot better at the moment.

I started this week’s playlist with a song from D.H.Scott’s album that actually came out in July. I’d like to say there’s some cool way I came across with it, but truth to be told, Spotify recommend it to me. Sometimes these algorithms know their stuff, because I fell instantly and this has been my favourite album during the weekend. There’s a lot of brand new albums from this week too. Kelsey Waldon, Kacy & Clayton, Jason James, Daniel Martin Moore and Michael Nau were on top of my list. Some big names too like Wilco, Angel Olsen and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and less known but equally good Monica Rizzio, Alexa Rose, Gospelbeach, Harmony Woods, Lisa Prank, Molly Drag and Bonnie Bishop. Aksi some beauties I’ve missed before from Andrew Taylor, Rachele Eve, Ainslie Wills (I had the singles from the last two, but somehow managed to miss the release of the album). Also highly anticipated EPs from Logan Ledger and Matthew Ryan plus a couple of great ones from new to me artists Kiel Grove and Kelso.

The lone new Finnish entry is the single from the forthcoming Liila Jokelin debut. I missed that a week ago and a cloud of guilt has been hanging over me ever since. Iron Country Sisters also reappear with another song from their wonderful debut. I’m sure there had to more Finnish stuff too, so feel free to guide towards right direction.

Oh yeah, some singles too. No need to namedrop them all, but some personal faves were the new singles from Jason Sinkhorn, Zachary Lucky, Big Thief, Pickering Pick and Craig Finn.

And in the end a few great artists from last week reappear. That’s it for this week. I hope I’ll manage to do something else this week, because I don’t want this to become just a playlist. All the best and love love love.

1. D.H. Scott – Banish My Soul to New Mexico (My Body Longed For The Summer, 2019)
2. Kelsey Waldon – Kentucky, 1988 (White Noise / White Lines, Oh Boy Records, 2019)
3. Kacy & Clayton – Spare Me Over One More Year (Carrying On, New West Records, 2019)
4. Jason James – Coldest Day of the Year (Seems Like Tears Ago, Melodyville Records, 2019)
5. Logan Ledger – Invisible Blue (I Don’t Dream Anymore EP, Rounder Records, 2019)
6. Monica Rizzio – Hard to Love (Sunshine Is Free, 2019)
7. Daniel Martin Moore – Real Love Song (Never Look Away, Sofaburn / OK Recordings, 2019)
8. Michael Nau – Be Smiling When You Can (Less Ready to Go, 2019)
9. Matthew Ryan – Are You the Matador? (Fallen Ash & Embers EP, Hearts & Smarts, 2019)
10. Jason Sinkhorn – What the Valley Thought You (single, Knothole Records, 2019)
11. Alexa Rose – Borrow Your Heart (Medicine For Living, Big Legal Mess, 2019)
12. Angel Olsen – Spring (All Mirrors, Jagjaguwar, 2019)
13. Pickering Pick – Please, Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (single, Double J Music, 2019)
14. Big Thief – Forgotten Eyes (single, 4AD, 2019)
15. Wilco – One and a Half Stars (Ode to Joy, dBpm Records, 2019)
16. Zachary Lucky – Sometimes I Wonder (How I Got This Far) (single, Wroxton Recordings, 2019)
17. Kiel Grove – Honey-Dew (Ridin’ The Pine EP, 2019)
18. Gospelbeach – Dark Angel (Let It Burn, Alive Naturalsound, 2019)
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Bright Horses (Ghosteen, 2019)
20. Gus Seyffert – Hold On (single, Sargent Records, 2019)
21. Rachele Eve – Bella (Renunciation, 2019)
22. Phoebe Hunt – Baba Vanga (single, 2019)
23. Craig Finn – It’s Never Been a Fair Fight (single, Partisan Records, 2019)
24. Andrew Taylor – Make a Difference (Somewhere to Be, 2019)
25. The Good Graces – Snow Angels (single, Pretty New Songs, 2019)
26. The Local Honeys – Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (single, 2019)
27. Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners – Make It Back Home (single, Country Roots Records, 2019)
28. Donna Blue – Desert Lake (single, Snowstar Records, 2019)
29. Liila Jokelin – Kuolleiden puolue (single, Helmi Levyt, Records, 2019)
30. Kelso – Oh God, There’s So Much Love In Me (Always a Godmother, Never a God EP, Poison City Records, 2019)
31. Ainslie Wills – Society (All You Have Is All You Need, 2019)
32. Molly Drag – Charlotte (Touchstone, EggHunt Records, 2019)
33. BAJA – Nino (singe, 2019)
34. John Blek – Empty Pockets (single, 2019)
35. Bonnie Bishop – Love Revolution (The Walk, Plan BB / Thirty Tigers, 2019)
36. Beautiful Dudes – Peace Train (single, Mama Bird Recording Co, 2019)
37. Lisa Prank – Ignore It (Perfect Love Song, Father / Daughter Records, 2019)
38. Wojtek the Bear – Slow TV (single, 2019)
39. Harmony Woods – The City’s Our Song (Make Yourself At Home, Skeletal Lightning, 2019)
40. Worry Dolls – The River (single, Bread & Butter Records, 2019)
41. Vincent Neil Emerson – 25 & Wastin’ Time (Fried Chicken & Evil Women, La Honda Records, 2019)
42. Michaela Anne – Tattered, Torn and Blue (and Crazy) (Desert Dove, New West Records, 2019)
43. John Calvin Abney – Typeface in Bold (Safe Passage, Black Mesa Records, 2019)
44. Will Johnson – To the Shepard, To The Lion (Wire Mountain, Keeled Scales, 2019)
45. Sidney Lindner & The Silver Wilderness Collective – Sweet Brother (Summer Ghosts / Nightfalls, Burst & Bloom / Broken Sparrow, 2019)
46. Iron Country Sisters – Starlight (Take Me Home) (The Blue Hidden In, Soit Se Silti, 2019)

Playlist link

Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.

Another week, another weekly playlist

Anniversary celebration is over and the blog returns to normal routine. Thanks again to every artists who made a video for the anniversary festival and every reader who watched them. If you want to revisit the action hit the links in the left sidebar. There’s a handy youtube playlist for easy browsing and sharing. So check that out if you want to hear brand new songs from Anna Tivel, Haley Heynderickx, Jeffrey Martin, Micah Schnabel.. and so much more. I love each and every video and I’m completely stunned that 68 artists wanted to take part on the anniversary festival of this little music blog. But it’s time to start focusing on the next 18 years and I’ll start with the weekly playlist. This time there’s albums and songs from the past three weeks, because I did not have enough time to compile this playlist during the celebration. This also means that I probably forgot to include a lot of stuff and a lot of it even slipped under my radar (it wasn’t even really on for a while there). So feel free to hit me up, if something important is missing. I also couldn’t include as much singles as normally, because the list is way too long as it is. I will mostly likely return to the weekly update from now on. It’s a lot of work, but in some strange way it seems easier to do it every week.

Carrying on to the new albums. I’ll start with the 27th September release day, which was pretty amazing. Albums from John Calvin Abney, Will Johnson, Dori Freeman, Michaela Anne, Billy Strings, Red River Dialect, Sturgill Simpson, Field Guides, Coyote Brother, Sofia Talvik, Tiny Ruins (solo versions of Olympic Girls), Jack Klatt, Cataldo, The Orphan Brigade, Gratiot Lake Road, M Horton Smith, Charlie Parr and a very special EP from Black Sea Dahu.

If we look further back the previous two release fridays, this playlist features a song from the albums by Sidney Lindner & The Silver Wilderness Collective, Hiss Golden Messenger, Paper Beat Scissors, Brittany Howard, Vincent Neil Emerson, Charley Crockett, Bror Gunnar Jansson, Darrin Bradbury, Anna Ash, The Lonesome Billies, Lauren Pratt, Neal Francis, Pieta Brown, Jeremy Ivey, Kate Teague and Andrew Combs. Plus a song from the EPs by JP Harris and William Alexander.

This one has a lot of great Finnish material too. There’s a song from the long-waited Iron Country Sisters debut in the beginning and later on a Finnish language section that features a song from the wonderful new albums by Viitasen Piia and Litku Klemetti and the new singles from Knipi, J.Matkala and STINAKO. Plus a Finnish indie classic Purkkaa by Tolbiac, because he just put out a compilation called Sketches (2001-2004).

Not as many international singles as normally, because this is already so long that I’ll need to buy a beer for anyone who has the time to listen to the whole thing until the very end. But some very special still like the new ones from Matt Dorrien, Logan Ledger, Hallelujah the Hills, Vetiver, Daniel Martin Moore, Simon Joyner..

So there you have it again, if someone was missing the playlist. Other kind of written posts should continue too, but I try not to promise too much. This is still just a hobby and there’s the the dayjob and other life things taking my time and energy too. All the best and lots of love love love.

1. John Calvin Abney – When the Dark Wind Blows (Safe Passege, Black Mesa Records, 2019)
2. Will Johnson – Need Of Trust and Thunder (Wire Mountain, Keeled Scales, 2019)
3. Sidney Lindner & The Silver Wilderness Collective – You & Me Kid (Summer Ghosts / Nightfalls, Burst & Bloom Records, 2019)
4. Iron Country Sisters – Riverside (The Blue Hidden In, Soit Se Silti, 2019)
5. Billy Strings – Watch It Fall (Home, Rounder Records, 2019)
6. Dori Freeman – All I Ever Wanted (Every Single Star, 2019)
7. Michaela Anne – Two Fools (Desert Dove, Yep Roc, 2019)
8. Black Sea Dahu – How You Swallowed Your Anger (No Fire in the Sand EP, 2019)
9. Hiss Golden Messenger – Bright Direction (You’re a Dark Star Now) (Terms of Surrender, Merge Records, 2019)
10. Red River Dialect – Blue Sparks (Abundance Welcoming Ghosts, Paradise of Bachelors, 2019)
11. Paper Beat Scissors – Grace (Parallel Line, Forward Music Group, 2019)
12. Brittany Howard – Short and Sweet (Jaime, ATO Records, 2019)
13. Matt Dorrien – Teddy Wilson (single, Mama Bird Recording Co, 2019)
14. Logan Ledger (feat. Courtney Marie Andrews) – Oh, Sister (single, Rounder Records, 2019)
15. JP Harris (feat Erin Rae) – Early Morning Rain (Why Don’t We Duet in the Road (again) EP, Demolition & Removal, 2019)
16. Vincent Neil Emerson – The Bad Side of Luck (Fried Chicken & Evil Women, La Honda Records, 2019)
17. Charley Crockett – Excuse Me (The Valley, Son of Davy, 2019)
18. Colter Wall & The Scary Prairie Boys – Happy Reunion (single, Young Mary Record Co, 2019)
19. Sturgill Simpson – Remember to Breathe (Sound & Fury, Elektra Records, 2019)
20. Bror Gunnar Jansson – Machine (They Found My Body in a Bag, Playground Music, 2019)
21. Hallelujah the Hills – Folk Music is Insane (single, Discrete Pageantry Records, 2019)
22. Anna Ash – L.A.Flame (L.A. Flame, 2019)
23. Vetiver – Swaying (single, Mama Bird Recording Co / Loose Music, 2019)
24. Darrin Bradbury – Dallas 1963 (Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs, ANTI-, 2019)
25. Tiny Ruins – School of Design (Olympic Girls (solo), Marathon Artists, 2019)
26. Dana Gavanski – Catch (single, Full Time Hobby, 2019)
27. Field Guides – Watching Terns (This is Just a Plaec, Whatever’s Clever, 2019)
28. Viitasen Piia (feat Topi Saha) – Kulje mun kanssani (Meidän jälkeemme hiljaisuus, Texicalli Records, 2019)
29. J. Matkala – Kun mä joskus kuolen (single, Iso Pinkki, 2019)
30. Knipi – Katkoviivoja (single, The Fried Music, 2019)
31. STINAKO – Kun viimein saavuit (single, Soliti, 2019)
32. Litku Klemetti – Hirveä kesäinen ilta (Ding Ding Dong, Luova Records, 2019)
33. Tolbiac – Purkkaa (Sketches 2001-2004)
34. Christopher Paul Stelling – Have to Do For Now (single, Anti-, 2019)
35. William Alexander – My Old Bourke Home (Garlic Pickin’ Time EP, 2019)
36. Ags Connolly – Say It Out Loud (single, Finstock Music, 2019)
37. Sarah Lee Langford – Growing Up (single, Cornelius Chapel Records, 2019)
38. The Lonesome Billies – Sad Old Man (Right On Time, Stay Lonesome Records, 2019)
39. Jason James – Move a Little Closer (single, Melodyville Records, 2019)
40. Coyote Brother – Palmetto Wine (Coyote Brother, Piasa Recordings, 2019)
41. Jeremy Ivey – Laughing Willy (The Dream and the Dreamer, ANTI, 2019)
42. Lauren Pratt – Blue Eyes (Young American Sycamore, 2019)
43. Kate Teague – The Spill (Kate Teague, Muscle Beach Records, 2019)
44. Daniel Martin Moore – Never Look Away (single, Sofaburn / OK Recordings, 2019)
45. Charlie Parr – Love is an Unraveling Bird’s Nest (Charlie Parr, Red House Records, 2019)
46. Cataldo – A Nick in My Heart (Literally Main Street, 2019)
47. Gospelbeach – Let It Burn (single, Alive Naturalsound, 2019)
48. Joshua Ray Walker – Last Call (Live at Sons of Hermann Hall) (single, State Fair Records, 2019)
49. Josienne Clarke – If I Didn’t Mind (single, Rough Trade, 2019)
50. Jack Klatt – I’ll Never Let You Down (It Ain’t The Same, Yep Roc, 2019)
51. Neal Francis – I Can’t Live Without Your Love (Changes, Karma Chief Records, 2019)
52. Theo Lawrence – Prairie Fire (single, Tomika Records, 2019)
53. The Orphan Brigade (feat. John Prine) – Captain’s Song (Sorley Boy) (To the Edge of the World, 2019)
54. Gratiot Lake Road – Twenty-Five Years (Goddamn Alone, 2019)
55. M Horton Smith – In the Driftwind (Blessed of the Flesh, 2019)
56. Simon Joyner – Yellow Jacket Blues (single, BB*Island, 2019)
57. Itasca – Lily (single, Paradise of Bachelors, 2019)
58. Andrew Combs – Stone (Ideal Man, New West Records, 2019)
50. Pieta Brown – Freeway (Freeway, Righteous Babe Records, 2019)
60. Sofia Talvik – Take Me Home (Paws of a Bear, Makaki Music, 2019)

Playlist link

Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.