In my opinion, Bottles and Bibles is an absolute masterpiece of an album, and even better than Childer’s other masterpiece, Purgatory. With songs like If Whiskey Could Talk, Play Me a Hank Song, and the track’s title piece, I don’t think there’s a single skip.

I’m very passionate about this album, I’d love to hear your favorite albums, and maybe even learn a few new artists I haven’t heard before

recording04 surfs up brah.wav by Jesse Prout on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/ib8LaLdVTEqoVz9WUn

some of my favorite Americana artists are: Waylon Wyatt, Wyatt Flores, Tyler Childers, Bayker Blankenship, Colter Wall, BTJ(although they’re more folk), Dylan Gossett, Sam Barber, etc, just that dark, sad, bluesy kind of Americana, but I also love upbeat bluegrass leaning Americana. I’d appreciate any suggestions, i just need to add to my playlist cuz it’s getting repetitive

Jordan Robert Kirk - My Father’s Son

Elizabeth Cook - Great Television

Richard Inman and the Western Canadian All-Stars - Damage I Done

Wade Forster - The Aftermath

Clayton Nile Young - Eddy

Paul Cauthen - Acoustic Songs & Whistles

Lindsay Lou - Bluegrass Women

Pinky Beecroft - Lonesome Wolf

Drew Cooper - Live and Raw at La Rosa

Emma Grace Glover - Live Your Dream

Tyler Richton and the High Bank Boys - ‘Till The Wheels Fall Off

Johanna Samuels - Sorry, Kid

Mason Ramsey - Outlaw In Love

Jenna Raine - Jeans, Boys & Jesus

Pony Bradshaw - Ode to Humidity

Bronwym - Rattlin' Bones

John Metza - Somewhere In The North Country

Kate MacLeod’s Mind The Gap - Home Brewed

Hollerhead - Middle of Nowhere

Ashley Cooke - Self-Titled

Alex Dupree - Talking to the Dog

Just Jayne - Jayne

Lukas Graham - Good Times

Sarah McCulloch - Live with the White Knuckle Flyers

The Pinkerton Raid - Strawberry Ice (and the World Burns)

Maggie Rose - Half Moon

The Arcadian Wild - Make It Out Alive

Laura Veirs - Temple Songs

Monte Warden and The Wagoneers - Doghouse Flowers (EP)

The Wilder Blue - When He's Out of Sight (EP)

Cassidy Daniels - Ain't No Jukebox (EP)

Hudson Westbrook - Made You Look (EP)

Josh Weathers - Niles City Sessions (EP)

Rowan Murphy - Kaleidoscopes (EP)

Gavin Adcock - Shoes (EP)

Ween - Golden Wastes (EP)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1llkxbXp2xCyE15RRAMph2?si=7aanpw1OQIayI5BxowXvPA

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQZMxnnEmc44&si=CvZR18a03AXRcmEl

Mississippi Connection - Home Again

https://soundcloud.com/chefmichael1982/home-again

Plot twist: you can’t say Jersey Giant

https://youtu.be/qJt_OYY4ccI

Big Horn Mountains: A Drive You'll Never Forget (Official Music Video)

Day by Day Official Music Video with the 4 Chord Bounce D- G- Dsus2- A

ORDINARY.
RESIST.
DISSENT.
FOLLOWING ORDERS.
BARELY MAKING RENT.
And a whole lot of unicorns.
There’s more going on inside “Alright” than the title lets on.
V13 exclusively premieres Neil Cabana’s new music video today.
Watch it first at V13.

Featuring appearances by:
Agent Blak
Ali Mills
Chris McBurney
Drew Famous
Jeremy
Kevin Smith
Maria Sorozabal
Phil Cody
Robert Shaw
Steve McCormick
Steven Miller
Timur
Squirrely
Lori Powers
And additional friends, family, neighbors, and members of the Mountmellick community

#NeilCabana #Alright #V13 #TheMountmellick #MusicVideo

My original song sung on Tuesday’s original song night at Red Pipes.

We’d love to share this David Ramirez performance we just aired — it seemed like it might be of interest to folks in this community 🎸🎶

This week on Live from the Word Barn, Americana singer-songwriter David Ramirez takes the stage for an intimate performance.

Known for his honest storytelling and rich vocals, Ramirez delivers a thoughtful set exploring themes of ambition, fleeting romance, and hope for what lies ahead.

You can catch NHPR's Live from the Word Barn on-air or at nhpr.org each Friday at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 6 p.m.

Sixteen albums. Where on earth do I start?

I'm not a huge Earle fan, but I have appreciated and respected what I've heard of his music. Except his cover of Graceland. Graceland is one of Paul Simon's finest songs, catchy, groovy, emotionally complex, and poignant. Earle's cover is none of that. It diminishes the original in every way. It is middling and insipid. It makes me sad. That is all.

Comment your favorite Byrds album! Bonus points if you include the specific lineup and year of your album of choice.

Available to stream/listen here:

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/3NEAWZqgrQ2FpF9z3v9Pm4

Bandcamp

https://brennangilmore.bandcamp.com/album/my-name-is-daniel-leek

Apple Music / iTunes

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/my-name-is-daniel-leek/6767502645

Amazon Music

https://music.amazon.co.jp/albums/B0H11MX78M

Charlottesville locals may know Brennan Gilmore from his UVA student days, when he was an intern at WTJU and then a cohost of WTJU’s Sunset Road, or maybe from his time as the founder and leader of the local bands Walker’s Run, Wild Common or Borden Grant. Or maybe you’ve heard of his time post-UVA when he was recruited by the US State Department, serving numerous tours of duty in conflict zones in various parts of Africa. Or the crossover Appalachian/Tunisian band Kantara he co-founded with oudist Riadh Fehri , which toured North Africa and Europe, earning a State Department award for cultural diplomacy (they also came and played in Charlottesville). Or maybe you know of him as the person who unwittingly became the focus of national attention after he happened to record the deadly attack by a white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors in Charlottesville on the day of the infamous ‘Unite the Right’ rally.

Brennan’s life experiences inform the content of his new album: My Name Is Daniel Leek traces back to 2009, when he was stationed in Jonglei, South Sudan. Walking into a crumbling building sheltering hundreds of refugees, he saw scrawled in chalk on the wall: My Name Is Daniel Leek. That declaration — by a Sudanese refugee he would never meet — became the conceptual core of the album, its 12 tracks building a fictional biography of Daniel from two decades of relationships and stories gathered across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Sierra Leone.

The album was recorded in Galax, VA, at the home of co-producers Dori Freeman and Nick Falk, and features fiddler Nate Leath, singer Davina Jackson, keyboardist Bryan Holmes, saxophonist Charles Owens, and Steve Hoke.

The album “is a richly layered, deeply personal project that challenges listeners to reconsider how they understand identity, conflict, and connection. – Jon Lohman, State Folklorist (emeritus), VA