Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
The new Steven James Adams album Old Magick came out in March on one of the most trustworthy pop labels Fortuna Pop! I’ve been a Steven James Adams fan since The Broken Family Band days and picked up this new one early in the summer. Such a good record once again. I’m very fond of the song Kings of the Back of the Bus although I wonder if I relate to it a little more than what would be advised. A music video for this great song surfaced a couple of weeks ago and you can catch that below.
I recently learned that the magnificent Bobby Emmett plays in Sturgill Simpson’s band these days. That’s pretty cool, because I do love Sturgill. However, I still hope Bobby finds some time to write his own pop masterpieces as well. In my books, his 2009 release Learning Love is one of the finest pop albums of this current century. It was the album of the year back in 2009 and I still love it to bits. All power pop kids should have this one. It has the hooks, the melodies and it’s catchy-as-hell. Albeit Sturgill’s music might actually be closer to my current taste in music, records like this are still the foundation of music taste. Here is Queen of Hearts, the brilliant opener of Bobby Emmett’s album Learning Love.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=001zRz2Y9kI
Onechord.net reaches 15 years on September 17. Leading up to that, I will be sharing some songs that I hold dear. Songs that I’ve loved the most during the years I’ve been making this. So basicly just some nostalgic crap, but with a damn brilliant soundtrack
The big and most pleasant suprise of the week was the release of a new Ryan Tanner album Promised Land. Together Is Where We Belong was such a beautiful album a few years back and songs like Days To Think Of You have been a part of my DNA ever since. Oh how I still love the peaceful hurt of that song.
New album Promised Land sounds equally amazing and it’s available at Bandcamp (name your price). Kiki Jane Sieger deliver beautiful backing vocals to some of the songs. Their voices fit together so beautifully and lift these already great songs to a new level (I hope we get something new from The Souvenirs as well, because I wouldn’t mind hearing more of Kiki’s voice). Ryan Tanner has again created a special album and I know I will be resting my tired body in the peaceful comfort of this album.
And here’s that Days to Think Of You from the earlier album. This could well be a song on that 15 anniversary thing I started today. So brilliant.