The other day while reviewing the Roots Music Chart the last album on the chart caught my eye, the band’s name is The Barren River Trio and the album is American Folk I only gave it a short listen yesterday, but I liked what I heard! Here’s a performance of the song “Dreams” …… what’d you think??
So this morning I had to go to the store and get some food, before my daughter started complaining again about lack of food in the house. So I put the iPod on the new Dave Potts’ album Live at Sundilla. According to his website, Dave was born and raised out west in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains and then one day he stumbled across Auburn, Alabama, well I’ll let him tell it:
So for the last two weeks the pain in the upper left leg seems to be getting better and then I try to run and well “discretion is the better part of valor” and I decide not to run. Well this afternoon throughout the afternoon my leg seemed really good, so after work I decided to run. Well the pain was there, but it wasn’t really the same and it was bearable so I decided to take it slow and run for 30 minutes or so and I made it, I ran at a 10:40 mile pace but at least I did it! Now while my leg is a little sore it’s really no worse than before the run, so tomorrow should tell a lot!
So when we went out tonight for a quick trip to Home Goods, I noticed that “Fingernail” moon and my thoughts immediately went to one of my favorite singer-songwriters Mark Erelli and his song “Compass and Companion” that goes like this: (that’s Kelly Willis helping with the vocals)
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Out here on this road just after midnight
Silver sickle rising in the east
I’m steady on the wheel
But I know just how you feel
So just lean back and try to catch some sleep
For the ride home yesterday, I switched genres and went to Folk and Americana and listened first, to Gene and Gayla Mills’s album If Stones Could Talk and then to a little Gurf Morlix. If Stones Could Talkis the first album billed as a duo, but is Gene’s second album. The album has received rave reviews for around the Folk and Americana world and has appeared on the following charts!
Here’s the title track from Carrie Newcomer’s new album Everything is Everywhere. I haven’t listened to this album a lot but I do like this song it speaks to the season “Peace on Earth, Goodwill to all Men…….Everywhere!
Photo:Mike Gifford
James Keelaghan is one of those artist whose music I love that often gets lost in the shuffle. His most recent album House of Cards was released way back in 2009 and for the longest time was not available on Rhapsody or Napster. Well the other day I found the album on Rhapsody and James has another winner!! Keelaghan is another of my many Canadian favorites. He was born in Calgery, but now calls Winnipeg home. He is a Juno Award winner and many of his songs have an historical base. “Kiri’s Piano” is about the internment of Japanese Canadians, while “October 70” is about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian history. But some like, “Cold Missouri Waters”, have a US locale, which is about the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 in Montana. For me Keelaghan is an all round artist with a great baritone voice, a good guitarist, and most of all a great story-song writer. I love his soon “Number 37” a great song about a girl and her horse at a rodeo race.
Ok so I was going to write a nice long post about a new folk artist that I discovered about a week ago Caleb Stine, then came the NFL Draft and somehow my night has slipped by and the Eagles still haven’t picked! Anyway Stine’s album I Wasn’t Built for this Life has been playing a lot on the iPod and each time I listen “I like the album more! Stine from Baltimore is a great crafter of song spinning tales of life. From his website: Honest Tune Magazine says that Stine’s music lays,
