Episode 40 right here
Julian Taylor – Opening the Sky
Ty Segall – Saturday Pt. 2
The Bros Landreth – Stay
SG Goodman – All My Love is Coming Back to Me
Laura Veirs – Eucalyptus
Days Of Lavender – People Who Care
Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Who Loves The Rain
The Dead South – People Are Strange
Bob’s notes
Ty Segall – Saturday Pt. 2
Ty Segall is an American musician and producer. He is extremely prolific as exemplified by the sheer amount of his album, ep and single releases. Check out his Discogs entry. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1265284-Ty-Segall?limit=250&type=Releases&subtype=Albums&filter_anv=0&page=1 . I suppose he could be pigeonholed into the “garage-rock” genre but his latest lp, “Hello Hi” is anything but that. Pitchfork Magazine explains: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ty-segall-hello-hi/
Here he is performing Saturday Pt. 2 live
The Bros Landreth – Stay – from 2022 lp Come Morning
The Bros. Landreth is a group from Winnipeg Manitoba. Their debut album “Let It Lie” won the Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year at the Juno Awards in 2015 so they have been around for a while. In 2022, Bonnie Raitt released a cover of “Made Up Mind”, which appears on her album “Just Like That” Her recording of the song won a Grammy Award for Best Americana Performance at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in 2022
Bonnie Raitt gave the guys a shoutout at the Grammys. Stay is a soulful number with a nice kooky video.
The whole album is solid. https://atthebarrier.com/2022/05/24/the-bros-landreth-come-morning-album-review/
Laura Veirs – Eucalyptus from the lp “Found Light”
Laura Veirs is an American singer-songwriter based out of Portland, Oregon. She is known for her folk/alternative country records and live performances as well as her collaboration with Neko Case and k.d. lang on the case/lang/veirs project. Check this album out. It’s a treasure. https://www.allmusic.com/album/case-lang-veirs-mw0002925163
Veirs has been releasing music since 1999. Her producer was usually her husband Tucker Martine. However, in 2019, Martine and Veirs separated. Found Light is considered by some as an album still dealing with the ending of that relationship.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/08/laura-veirs-found-light-review. The featured track Eucalyptas seems to reflect this
Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Who Loves The Rain from “Shufflemania”
Cult figure Robyn Hitchcock has been making music since the late 1970’s first with The Soft Boys, then The Egyptians and for many many years as a solo artist. He has released close to 30 solo albums. Hitchcock’s lyrics are often absurd in the best Lewis Carroll vein. He has been both an acoustic performer and full out rock and roller. “The Man Who Loves the Rain” shows he hasn’t lost a step.
I’ve included 2 of my fave Hitchcock song from the past.
Here he is on Letterman in 1980s. The quality of the video isn’t great but the performance is. Watch for the broken string!
Robyn Hitchcock was a favourite of the late film director Jonathan Demme. They made a documentary in 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storefront_Hitchcock
The wonderful song “1974” is taken from this movie… This is probably my favourite Hitchcock song.
Paul’s Notes
This guy is amazing, I love the song and his voice. I can’t believe that he was ready to pack things up (read below).
Another Covid artifact – he had a great video series – Cross Country Chin Up – pretty amazing, I have included a bit of this series with my notes.
Playing in Wolfville this April!!
Baldwin Cross-Country Chin Up IX
Hey gang. I’m gonna broadcast live on the World Wide Web this Friday night at 9pm ATLANTIC. You can find the program here, hit SET REMINDER to be notified. I hope you can join me for the Cross-Country Chin Up. Hope you’re all staying well.
Baldwin credits fellow singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright with “kinda setting me straight” in a long conversation over dinner when they chanced across each other on the same Québécois TV show and encouraging him not to give up.
After that cathartic encounter, he vowed to keep it honest and “write some songs about this part of the world” and the “unique kind of nuts” to be found in the darkest corners of the Atlantic Provinces. After that, the vivid rural character studies that would eventually make up “Concertos & Serenades” — stories of fishermen dabbling in fiery revenge and the cocaine trade, stoic miners drawing their last breaths underground in Springhill and the colourful regulars stopping by “Gerald Burgess RaceTrac Full Serve Autobody” for gas, a pack of smokes and some chit-chat — started spilling out of him.
Singer-songwriter Adam Baldwin has been a mainstay of the Atlantic Canada music scene for over a decade. Starting as a member of rock combo Gloryhound before joining Matt Mays & El Torpedo in 2009, Baldwin’s own music has continued to evolve since his award winning self-titled solo debut EP in 2013.
Julian Taylor – Opening the Sky
Another incredible voice and songwriter. I think we have featured Julian Taylor three times on our show and that is fine with me. This current song is getting lots of airplay on North Americana radio
The lyrics are really interesting on this song, good to give this one a second listen.
JULIAN TAYLOR PRESENTS BEYOND THE RESERVOIR
Story by Howard Druckman | Monday October 17th, 2022
(Full disclosure: My wife happens to be Julian Taylor’s Canadian publicist. So, after a brief introduction, it’ll be just Taylor talking about his album. And I’d be writing this story, this way, regardless of who his publicist is. Some quotes have been edited for length and clarity.)
It looks like Julian Taylor is poised on the verge of broadening and deepening his international breakthrough of 2020.
That year, his album The Ridge earned more than five million plays on Spotify, praise from the press worldwide, and airplay from Canada and the U.S. to Australia and the U.K. Loaded with soulful Americana and country twang, The Ridge won Taylor the Solo Artist of the Year honour at the Canadian Folk Music Awards; was nominated for two JUNO Awards (Contemporary Folk Album and Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year); and made the Polaris Prize Long List of the 40 best albums in Canada. He also won Best Male Artist at the International Acoustic Music Awards.
https://www.socanmagazine.ca/features/julian-taylor-presents-beyond-the-reservoir/
The final track, “Opening the Sky,” hits fast-forward and imagines the end of life, both the final struggles of a body breaking down and the memories of the life that’s come before. But most urgent is the desire to make sure learnings are passed down to the next generation: “Always love beyond your own comprehension. / In a world that may not see you for all that you are, never forget you have so much power.” The flood of final words of advice and encouragement end with “find time to simply stay still.” When the words repeat, they become the last living moment of the narrator and also a reinforcement of his lasting presence despite death: “Time to simply stay … still.”
SG Goodman
Again, yet another amazing voice! This time from Kentucky. Glad I found this one, I don’t know much about her, but I would be happy to see her in concert – this would be great! This is from a feature on her in Rolling Stone.
Prior to her solo career, Goodman was part of the band The Savage Radley.[7] Her debut album, Old Time Feeling, was co-produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket.[5] The album has been described as Americana, folk, country, and rock.[8] She is signed to Verve Forecast Records. In 2021, she, as a solo artist, was inter alia part of the Newport Folk Festival in July.[9]
In June 2022, Goodman released her second album, Teeth Marks, on Verve Forecast.[10] She usually plays with her guitar tuned down a whole step, though some songs on the record were played in this tuning with a capo.[6] The fifth track on the album, “If You Were Someone I Loved” deals with the opioid crisis.[11] Because her debut album was released during the COVID-19 pandemic, Goodman did not headline a tour for the album. As such, her tour for Teeth Marks was her first solo tour.[12]
Kentucky farmer’s daughter writes songs so the world can hear what life is like where she grew up
WHEN S.G. GOODMAN was growing up, her farmer father would plant an annual crop of sweet corn for his three kids, which they later harvested by hand and sold for money to buy their school clothes.
The farm isn’t Goodman’s home anymore: “I live in a house where the backyard is too shaded by these maple trees so that I can’t really grow anything,” she says. But the Murray, Kentucky-based singer-songwriter, 31, maintains a deep connection to the place that shaped her on her debut album, Old Time Feeling. Produced by Goodman with bandmates S. Knox Montgomery and Matthew Rowan, plus fellow Kentuckian Jim James of My Morning Jacket, it’s at once earthy and otherworldly, relaying her personal experiences alongside razor-sharp social commentary about the South.
The Dead South – People Are Strange
This band is so incredibly good. I don’t know how I found them, but their music is really different. I didn’t expect to find a blue grass band in Saskatchewan, but happy to feature them. Truly a great band that deserves more exposure.
The Dead South on Bluegrass Purists, New Album ‘Sugar & Joy’ and Being Canada’s “Night Off” Band
The Dead South are arguably Canada’s best-known “bluegrass” band. Their video for “In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company” has been viewed over 150 million times on YouTube, and the band have toured across North America and Europe. They just released their new album, Sugar & Joy, and will be hitting the road hard to support it.
On the surface, the band look like a typical bluegrass ensemble: the members play banjo, cello, guitar and mandolin; they sing in four-part harmony; and their songs tell stories of hard times and broken hearts; and they won the Juno for Traditional Roots Album in 2018 for Illusion & Doubt. But despite what you might have heard, the Dead South aren’t bluegrass — at least, not according to purists.
“We don’t know how to define our sound,” lead singer, guitarist and mandolinist Nate Hilts tells Exclaim! “We’re definitely very inspired by bluegrass music — that’s what kind of started the band. The instrumentation that we brought in was to play a bluegrass style; however, our own personal forms came in, we just started playing music and this is what we came up with. We don’t really know what to identify it as, because it touches on a lot of different places.”
The group have been together since 2012, and although there has been some interchanging of musicians over the years, original members, Nate Hilts, Scott Pringle (mandolin/guitar), Danny Kenyon (cello) and Colton “Crawdaddy” Crawford (banjo), remain in the current lineup. The group recently embarked on their “Served Cold” tour, which Nate expects to last until January 2021, and will see the foursome performing their unique variety of traditional Canadian folk on stages in Germany, the UK, and even the birthplace of bluegrass music, Raleigh, NC.
Easy Listening for Jerks Pt. 1 and 2 (2022-present)
Days Of Lavender – People Who Care
The lead singer of Days of Lavender grew up here in Ottawa. Daniela has a magical voice and it is great to listen to them at the beginning of a very creative musical career – I hope!
🔮We’re a band that plays wholesome electronic music in Vancouver
Days of Lavender is the Vancouver-based duo project of producer and bassist Stephen Clarke and singer/songwriter Daniela Mae. They mix their love of 80s synth pop, electronic, gospel and folk music to guide you on a meditative sci-fi ride you won’t want to get off. In the last year of playing together they have released 6 songs, played for private parties, public events and two BC music festivals. In March 2022, they started an event series in collaboration with DJ Chachøu called InnerSpace: A Cosmic Arts Journey, which showcases the work of local visual artists and includes wellness classes, dance performances, DJs and their own live music.
Whole-Hearted 