Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
Travers Geoffray has music—and New Orleans—in his DNA. “My grandfather was a musician in New Orleans, so was my great-grandfather who came from France to New Orleans,” he explains. “My dad wasn’t a professional musician, but because of our family history, he wanted to make sure music was a part of our education.” Geoffray,who was... Continue Reading →
Sitting for a chat at Calypso Cafe in East Nashville with three of four members of blues rock outfit Blackfoot Gypsies is like being in the middle of a ping pong match or a comedy routine--one might gather that they have spent a lifetime together, yet the bulk of their musical journey began only a... Continue Reading →
Craig Brown Band--The Lucky Ones Forget Detroit's Craig Brown released his debut full-length via Third Man Records (SWOON), and it's a countrified hum-dinger. Equal parts honky-tonk hillbilly and dive bar derelict, Brown has crafted a rock and pedal steel-infused collection of barroom punkicana that will surely delight showgoers of all ages. The Company Stores--Little Lights... Continue Reading →
It has been three years since Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May’s last studio release. Drawing on her personal changes during that time--primarily the end of her eighteen year marriage--May has crafted an intimate and revealing work with her upcoming fifth album Life. Love. Flesh. Blood. With a powerhouse assembly of industry talent including the legendary T... Continue Reading →
“Music found me as a kid,” says Georgia-bred Nashville-based soulstress Jessie Smith. “I was an average kid in every other way, but the first time I noticed I could keep a beat was in first grade church choir, I had to tell all the other kids when to come in! That same year, my mom... Continue Reading →
A very wise person once said, “The way you do anything is the way you do everything”—words to ponder, and, if you’re banjo-picking emerging Americana songstress Lockwood Barr, they’re words to live by. Last July, the California-bred Nashville-based Barr released her latest album, Signs Along The Road, which earned her a 2016 Music Row Magazine... Continue Reading →
San Diego-based Fanny and The Atta Boys are preserving and promulgating the red hot sound of pre-war jazz; their latest single, "Simple Love," is a sauntering selection of sultry sass and swagger. The song will be featured on their forthcoming album, "A Peck Of Dirt," give it a spin: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Nashville singer/songwriter Alicia Gail, who makes music under the moniker Nightingail, recently recorded a live session performing her song, "Green Coat," at Nashville's Magnetic Sound. “I wrote this song about two years ago while I was driving from Nashville back home to Memphis,” she recalls. “The radio in my car was broken at the time, and I started tapping... Continue Reading →
The Kernal - Light Country There's something refreshingly familiar about Light Country, the new full-length record from Jackson, Tennessee-based red suit wearing traditionalist, The Kernal, out via John Paul White's Single Lock Records. With quick-witted lyrics that encompass everything from a knock-kneed ballerina who has the heart but not the know-how to living in an abandoned Taco Bell, and... Continue Reading →
Aaron Watson - Vaquero For the uninitiated, there's country, and then, there's Texas country. Veteran music-maker Aaron Watson's latest release, Vaquero, is a beautiful example of just that; between the radio-friendly tracks on the ambitious 16-song stunner are the real gems--songs like "They Don't Make'Em Like They Used To" and the album's title track that brim with life... Continue Reading →