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Phil Madeira — Providence
Phil Madeira is a Nashville-based musician, artist, songwriter and producer.
Phil has been a behind-the-scenes shaker and mover as a band member (Emmylou Harris; Red Dirt Boys, Buddy Miller, The Phil Keaggy Band) and session musician/songwriter (Alison Krauss, Mat Kearney, Old Crow Medicine Show, Buddy Miller, Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, Keb’ Mo’, Amy Grant, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Civil Wars, Julie Miller, The Band Perry, Mavis Staples, and many more). The creator of “Mercyland” puts 10 tracks that will take you home on his solo LP Providence. Read about it at Rolling Stone, and grab a copy here.
Republican Hair — High & Tight / The Prince & The Duke
Soul Step Records initially released four tracks off the HIGH AND TIGHT EP with SSR-014. Fans couldn’t get enough of Republican Hair. The limited edition vinyl quickly sold out. It was some time later when SSR was approached again from Republican Hair, with a pair of songs off a very different sounding – The Prince and the Duke. The single “Miss Prince” was put out on vinyl into the world…it was an even bigger hit. This track was favorited and even highlighted by NPR & Consequence of Sound.
Now comes the LP of all of High & Tight & The Prince and the Duke.
Fresh Hats Tight Beats — The Thread
The Thread is a tribute album to Matt Nigro. You can pre-order the album at www.freshhatstightbeats.com or click the logo at the top. All proceeds from this album will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Gloria Barnes — Uptown
Insanely raw soul from 1971! Extremely rare and being reissued for the first time here. Gloria Barnes teams up with The Ohio Players and Lee Moses to create her only LP, Uptown, that would become highly desirable in the deep soul/funk market and is just now seeing the light of day again in 2017. This is one of those records that all you have to do is drop the needle and you know it’s for real.
Low Lumens — The Distant, Everyday
The Distant, Everyday is the first full-length album by Low Lumens, the recording alias of visual artist and musician Danny Bracken.
The sound of ringing church bells mix with swelling synthesizers in the expansive opening track, “Santa Clara.” In many ways, the meditative song sets the tone for the ten track album, a record that is simultaneously complex and spacious. There is an undeniable sense of upbeat repetition, something reminiscent of dance or electronic music. Yet, with bits of voice and acoustic instruments, the compositions retain a sense of humanness. Throughout, a subtle tension weaves: there’s a crackle in the woodwinds, slight feedback in a synthesizer, and a confused auto-tuned brass ensemble lying just below the polished surface.
Available now from Burnt Toast Vinyl.
Robert Crotty with Me: Loren’s Collection (1979-1987)
In the years 1978 to 1981, Robert Crotty would show up on Loren Connors’ doorstep in New Haven, Connecticut with his tiny, almost toy guitar. The two would then spend hours playing acoustic blues, the likes of which was absolutely staggering in its truthfulness.
Robert Crotty with Me: Loren’s Collection (1979-1987) is the first anthology of the late bluesman’s work, as selected by his former playing partner. These are the unheard tapes of Crotty and Connors communing with the spirits of Delta and County Blues through their own revisions of standards and tingle-inducing improvisations. These also some of the legendary Connors’ earliest available recordings showing the development of iconoclast guitar style and vocal moan.
Crotty was a New Haven lifer and linchpin of the region’s blues scene yet, he never achieved much recognition outside local bars and house parties — until now. The album features never before heard recordings, unseen photos, liner notes by Connors and Crotty’s brother plus a bonus CD: the first-time reissue of Crotty’s ultra rare sole LP Robert Crotty Blues and Prove It! 7-inch — both released on Connors’ private St. Joan imprint in the late 1980s.
LP limited to 500 copies worldwide, includes a full-color inner sleeve and download coupon. Preorder now.
Transference — Marmoset Music
Transference unearths and re-examines a diverse collection of honored, distinguished musical artifacts, each from the public domain — blowing the proverbial dust off of them and transferring the life, feelings, and ideas into something completely different.
Marmoset’s team of producers collaborated with a diverse swath of artists from our community — including The Helio Sequence, Ural Thomas and the Pain, Dear Nora, Bouquet and more — to take the timeless design of classic public domain songs and reimagine them into something new, whether it be intimate folk, electropop, or soul revival and funk (just to name a few).
Available December 1 — stay tuned to marmosetmusic.com.
Sylmar – Transaturated Tunes
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Soul Step Records are back in the LP game with label veterans Sylmar. They first announced Sylmar to the world with their Cincinnati Brewers Series 7″. The reception was so strong and copies moved so quickly that once Sylmar went back into the studio to rework some older songs and write new ones, SSR wanted to release the LP.
Already out digitally, Sylmar continues to bring in new fans with their unique brand of complex indie rock. This LP will move quickly, and the SSR limited edition will be 100 random color vinyl. Each one will be unique. Act fast and don’t be left behind!
With their highly anticipated fourth album A Long Way from Your Heart, the Turnpike Troubadours sextet is poised for even bigger breakthroughs. Narratives put to music are nothing new, but Felker and his bandmates have upped the ante, creating a web of unforgettable characters that show up on album after album in songs that are both catchy and musically complex: men and women with their backs against their wall, represented realistically but also imbued with dignity. “It feels like going home to see that those characters are still alive in a way that movies and literary writers have always done,” frontman Evan Felker says of the recurring favorites. “It feels good. There they are, all based on people that I know and love. They’re composite characters based on real people.”
A Long Way from Your Heart was produced by Grammy winner Ryan Hewitt (The Avett Brothers, Flogging Molly, Red Hot Chili Peppers). The result is a rare triumph––an album that hooks immediately but then rewards listeners willing to dig deeper. “I love what we as a band have turned into and how we treat songs,” Felker says. “That’s something we’ve grown into––adding some sort of oddly theatrical element to the musicianship to help the story along, to sum up where or who the character is to give him a little bit of landscape. It’s not just an acoustic guitar and a guy telling you what somebody’s doing.”
Available for pre-order now on limited edition clear vinyl.