Mark Lanegan He is known for his baritone voice, which has been described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather"[4] and has been compared to Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits.[5] Carnival
Congrats on the great success of this very cool thread... One of my favorite Americana efforts of the modern era: I saw Jeff Tweedy perform this as TWEEDY a few years ago...his closing song. Beautifully done and everyone sang along. Billy Bragg & Wilco meet Woody Guthrie...California Stars
Emmylou--First Aid Kit...sublime A stunning performance that brought tears to Emmylou's eyes... at Polar Music Prize Awards
A stunning debut album, start to finish....Pieces Of Sky Emmylou's groundbreaking album that rocked and influenced Country/Americana for decades to come... Boulder To Birmingham
Barbara Keith 1971 A brilliant 1971 release on Reprise. Early Americana..so fine. Detroit Or Buffalo (the album can be had at Amazon as a download...or an OOP cd for almost $1000!) Barbara Keith dropped out of the music scene before anyone really had a chance to appreciate her work. Originally recorded for Warner Bros. in 1971, Barbara Keith was withdrawn when Keith, not completely happy with the results, gave the advance money back and walked away from the music business. With the re-release of the album 30 years later by Water, all of this will seem a bit odd, because Barbara Keith is a fine effort highlighted by great writing and solid production. 2004. -Amazon
Mandolin Orange---great Americana duo 'Mandolin Orange is an Americana/folk duo based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group was formed in 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and consists of the group's songwriter Andrew Marlin (vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo) and Emily Frantz (vocals, violin, guitar). Mandolin Orange has produced six albums of Marlin's original works of American roots music. In the last three years, the group has toured throughout the U.S and Europe, including appearances at Austin City Limits, South by Southwest, Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Rooster Walk, and MerleFest and the Omagh Bluegrass Festival. Mandolin Orange was the featured artist on CBS This Mornings Saturday Morning Sessions on December 7, 2019.[2] They signed to Yep Roc Records in 2013[3] and have produced four albums under their umbrella, This Side Of Jordan, Such Jubilee, Blindfaller and Tides of a Teardrop.
Mary McCaslin...Way Out West 1973 In 1973 Mary McCaslin made her debut as a songwriter with Way Out West. Her songs immediately became staples of folk radio and have remained so over the years. Whether writing about relationships or about the West, her insight and artistry are apparent in every line. In many ways, this album helped set the standard for today's singer-songwriters. Mary also includes some of her patented arrangements of songs by other writers.
Joe Henry...wonderful Americana aside: He stepped into a friend's local vinyl record/stereo shop the other day searching for a reel to reel and talked a bit about life and music, and building a house nearby here in Harpswell Maine. Not sure if he is moving here from LA, or just for a summer home. Live KEXP
JOE PUG! Pug's acclaimed narrative songwriting has led critics to draw comparisons between his work and that of John Prine[3] and Bob Dylan.[4] His stated influences include John Hiatt, Warren Zevon, and Beck,[5] as well as literary figures such as John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck,[6] Raymond Carver and most notably, Walt Whitman.[7] Hymn #101
Amanda of course and hubby Jason Isbell. Rod Picott and Amanda were pretty fine while they lasted... Angels & Acrobats
Stu Nunnery has long been an undiscovered treasure... for those who have yet to hear him...1973 Stu Nunnery s/t LP And That's Fine With Me Stu Nunnery Composer, musical recording artist, actor and activist. Resuming his music career after a 30-year hiatus due to a serious hearing loss. Stu Nunnery | HuffPost by Stu Nunnery I have been on a musical journey since I was four years old - a journey that ended precipitously in my late 20’s with life altering consequences, and several dramatic episodes played out along the way. In 1974, I was a recording artist with two songs on the US pop charts and a #1 record in Brazil. I would later write and sing on national radio and TV jingles and wrote a popular parade theme for Disney called ”I’m Walking Right Down the Middle of Main Street USA.” But between 1978 and 1982, I lost much of my hearing and along with it any aspirations for a life in music. In 1984, I suffered a detachment of both retinas and regained sight in my right eye only after surgery. For the next 30 years I lived without music of any kind as it was either too frustrating emotionally or too painful physically to play or to listen to. Not only were the activities of my daily life challenged, but my professional and financial survival was also at great risk after a successful music career. The road forward started with a passion, simply, to regain my health and stabilize, if possible, my fluctuating hearing. With no medicinal or surgical options, I embraced a series of dietary and other health practices that I have maintained throughout my life, and established some non-musical platforms focused on food where my experiences and talents provided an income and would inspire others. For a time, I worked in the natural products industry, presented workshops and trainings for consumers and industry groups, and worked alongside farmers and agricultural professionals. By the mid ‘90’s I traveled around the country to tell my story before audiences in government, education, food safety and public health. Eventually, I started up two non-profits dedicated to the issues I had embraced in my quest to be well and felt as if that might be the final chapter of my professional life. While my work gave me purpose and satisfaction, it was never able to provide the full expression and soulful joy I experienced in making music. But never did I believe in all that time that I would be able to play, sing or record music ever again. Then, as if the world turned suddenly upside down, a conspiracy of things started to move me in the right direction. In 2008 a fan found my 1973 album and contacted me to ask where I had been since then. He conducted an interview with me for his Classic Rock Music blog on the internet and from that interview I discovered that I had fans from around the world for more than 30 years - fans I never knew existed, but who now were encouraging me to get back into music – whatever it would take. That same year, my wife was diagnosed with a rare cancer and I shifted my attentions to her care. After she passed away in 2010, her death became another compelling nudge to try to find my own joy again by taking up my musical life - whatever it would take. My timing was good. Hearing aid technology had advanced and with my first digital hearing aid I was able to hear a much broader audio spectrum than I had for more than three decades. Research into the brain told me that even with a damaged hearing apparatus, I might improve my “ability” to hear through various exercises and the adjustments the brain can sometimes make in response. In 2013 I began work with a hearing rehab specialist, resumed vocal training, and found that along with the higher tech hearing aid, I was at last able to complete a kind of “hearing circuit” from my voice through my body to the brain and back to my ears. I started playing the piano and guitar once again and I found that musical tones had become much sharper. I collaborated with a hearing professional to customize special ear monitors for me to use in the studio and for live performances that allow me to hear my voice and instruments in the same feed, much as headphones had allowed me to do so many years before. In November of 2014, I launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to help fund my healing process and conduct preliminary activities toward making new recordings. At the same moment, one of Brazil’s leading lifestyle magazines published a special feature on my story and the impact of my music in Brazil – 40 years after the fact. In all, this remarkable confluence of events has propelled me forward. . In 2015, with the wind at my back, I repackaged and launched my first album from 1973 via CD and download and am about to start a series of live House Concerts with the recording of new songs planned for fall. I am also writing articles for “Open Ears” an international hearing loss blog published by Phonak, my hearing aid company, to offer insights into my life and work to rebuild my musical self, and inspiration to others about how to negotiate the hard terrain of a lifetime with hearing loss. And I am launching two speaking campaigns called “Talk to Me – The Messenger is the Message,” and “Rebuilding the Musical Self,” designed to inspire musicians and singers with hearing loss to continue their own musical journeys – whatever it takes. Lady It's Time To Go YouTube
Su Nunnery interview Classic Rock Bands - Stu Nunnery - Interview | classicrockmusicblog.com If you’ve never heard of Stu Nunnery, you’re probably not alone, but it would be your loss. Nunnery is a singer/songwriter who released one self-titled album on the short-lived Evolution label in 1973. The nine-song LP showcased a heady talent, playing a mix of folk-rock that fans of Dan Fogelberg, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot and Jackson Browne should connect with immediately. Yet, Nunnery sounded like no one else. And if you’ve never heard him, read and listen on, for there’s plenty of great music to discover here. I first learned of Nunnery when I found his album amid tens of thousands of old, dusty LPs in a St. Paul, MN, building, whose lower floor was serving as a used record store. That same day, I discovered another singer/songwriter (Jimmie Spheeris) who comes up in this interview, as well. I plunked down $1 for Nunnery’s album and left not expecting much. I got home, dropped the needle on Side 1 and after about 20 seconds of hearing the lead cut, “Isle Of Debris,” I was thinking, “How has this been hidden for so long?” Later, I found out this was his only record and one could only hear it on vinyl. How could this album languish in obscurity and never find its way to compact disc? Why didn’t he release more albums? As I was to find out, truth is crazily stranger than fiction. Nunnery’s story is one you just have to read for yourself. You released one album in 1973 and then seemed to disappear. What happened? First off, I always appreciate hearing from someone who had picked up my first and only album. It’s funny, at this point in life I’m getting a lot more calls [about my music] than I got many many years ago. My story is a simple one. I did one album in 1973-74. Over the next couple of years, two of the cuts from that album – “Madelaine” and “Sally From Syracuse” – reached the Top 100 on the American charts. And in 1976 – after I had left the company I was with – “Lady It\’s Time To Go,” which is on the flip side of the album, became the #1 Record in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. And it was my recording of it, sold to a label called Copacabana Records, which was part of the RCA stable. And in 1976, I got a phone call after I had left the record company I was with, telling me I was a big star in South America, and, “Can you come down here and perform?” Well, I could barely eat back in 1976 – I was still [playing] in small clubs. And I never saw a dime for that #1 Record down there in South America. In fact for all of 1976, my English-speaking record was the 57th-best-selling record down there, which is really bizarre.... more interview here: Classic Rock Bands - Stu Nunnery - Interview | classicrockmusicblog.com Sally From Syracuse
