Morning Music!

So few of the songs I wanted to share today were available on Spotify, I decided to embed all ten of ’em as Soundcloud files. 1. Henry Black — “Weeping Willow” is a strident tune that turns one of life’s…

Lee N. Sage — Lee N. Sage

The Michigan Woods, where Lee N. Sage (nee Bobby LeSage) wrote his EP makes its presence felt in these four songs. Sage infuses all four songs with a lush guitar stream that fills his sonic spaces. Like sunlight through a…

Morning Music

1. Henry Jamison — “Sunlit Juice” is a good song to close out the weekend (or, depending on when you’re reading, begin it.) A quietly reflective moment, “Sunlit Juice” is a gentle reminder to pause and reminisce once in a…

Steev Richter — Beloved

“Psychedelic country” is a term that PR people like to throw around these days. From what I can tell, it’s simply a catch-all for anything that has twang but is experimental, and calling it prog-country would be extremely alienating. Steev…

Morning Music!

1. The Town Council — “Lie Awake” doesn’t sound anything like Two Cow Garage, but something about the voice and the gruff honesty of the song calls my favorite guitar slingers to mind. 2. Monica Riskey — “Gluten Free” is…

Morning Music!

1. Ajay Srivastav — “Between the Cracks” is an intrepid journey to the spaces between folk, blues, psychedelica, and traditional Indian music that hits all the right notes. 2. A Valley Son — “The World, It Moves” is a Southern…

Susannah Winspear — Slightly Unemployed

Slightly Unemployed, is, quite simply, a delight. Winspear’s lyrics are so pointed and timely that she is a one-person latter-day Gilbert and Sullivan. Slightly Unemployed celebrates the anxieties of a twenty-going-on-thirty-something in this day and age. Joyously. With a swing…