Emily Barker is the award-winning songwriter and performer of the theme to BBC TV’s Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. Her music is a blend of roots influences from country to English folk via 60s pop.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Joan Shelley
The stunning, self-titled fourth album from the Kentucky singer, songwriter, and guitarist Joan Shelley began, surprisingly, with a fiddle.
In the summer of 2014, Shelley fell for “Hog of the Forsaken,” a bowed rollick at the end of Michael Hurley’s wayward folk circus, Long Journey, then nearly forty years old.
Hurley’s voice, it seemed to Shelley, clung to the fiddle’s melody, dipping where it dipped and climbing where it climbed.
This was a small, significant revelation, prompting the guitarist to trade temporarily six strings for four and, as she puts it, “try to play like Michael.” That is, she wanted to sing what she played, to play what she sang.
She tried it, for a spell, with the fiddle. “Turns out, I wasn’t very good at fiddle,” remembers Shelley, chuckling. “But I took that idea back to the guitar and tried that same method. I did it as a game to make these songs, a way to find another access point.” But that wasn’t the end of the trials.
After collaborating and touring with ace guitarist Nathan Salsburg for so many years, Shelley decided to put her entire guitar approach to the test, too.
Each day, she would twist and turn into a different tuning, letting her fingers fumble along the strings until the start of a tune began to emerge... more credits released May 5, 2017
JOAN SHELLEY / guitars, vocals, dobro, baritone ukulele
NATHAN SALSBURG / acoustic and electric guitars
JAMES ELKINGTON / piano, Dobro, organ
JEFF TWEEDY / bass, Theravox, electric guitar
SPENCER TWEEDY / drums and percussion
Produced by Jeff Tweedy.
Engineered and mixed by Tom Schick at The Loft in Chicago December 2016.
Design Lacey Guthrie.
Cover photo by Ebru Yildiz. Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.
Songs © joan shelley (BMI). No Quarter 2017 NOQ053
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Morgan Heritage
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Monday, September 11, 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Shotgun Bill
Shotgun Bill's 2nd solo CD " Train Cars, Prison Bars...and a White Guitar" is a blend of coffee house country rock with an original singer / songwriter vibe.He perform his brand of Americana at coffee houses and venues playing a compilation of original songs at the Jersey Shore.
By the sound of his music you might think you'd find Bill locked up somewhere, but thats just in his mind. His music is true to rock-a-billy roots.(all titles on Itunes, Amazon, CD Baby and Band Camp and Spotify.) Also Listen to him on his YouTube Channel.
Hailing from Middletown, New Jersey, Shotgun Bill began playing bass in 1973, playing in bands throughout high school and college, before life eventually took him in a different direction.
He has been working with Frank Patrouch since 2012, through a solo CD of Frank’s. This reunion prompted them to make a new record as a duo, 2015’s ‘One Good Line’, and hit the road, playing coffeehouses with their own brand of 70’s country rock.
In 2016 he released is 1st solo CD “ Shotgun Bill- the B- Sides”. Also in 2016, Frank & Bill release another CD entitled “ Unplugged and Uncouth”. In 2017 Bill released his 2nd solo CD " Train Cars and Prison Bars...and a White Guitar" with 16 new original songs ( all titles on Itunes, Amazon, CD Baby and Band Camp and Spotify.)
He has been working with Frank Patrouch since 2012, through a solo CD of Frank’s. This reunion prompted them to make a new record as a duo, 2015’s ‘One Good Line’, and hit the road, playing coffeehouses with their own brand of 70’s country rock.
In 2016 he released is 1st solo CD “ Shotgun Bill- the B- Sides”. Also in 2016, Frank & Bill release another CD entitled “ Unplugged and Uncouth”. In 2017 Bill released his 2nd solo CD " Train Cars and Prison Bars...and a White Guitar" with 16 new original songs ( all titles on Itunes, Amazon, CD Baby and Band Camp and Spotify.)
His music style is a blend of coffee house Country Bluesy rock with an original singer / songwriter vibe.
He perform at local coffee houses and venues playing a compilation of original songs here at the Jersey Shore.
He perform at local coffee houses and venues playing a compilation of original songs here at the Jersey Shore.
Bill Anania is a Podiatrist and resides and practices in Middletown, NJ with his wife and has one son.
Band Name: Shotgun Bill
Album Name: Train Cars and Prison Bars...and a White Guitar
Year Released:
Email Address: william.anania@verizon.net
Website: www.shotgunbillmusic.com
Music Style: Country/Americana
Influences: Beatles We Sound Like: Rockpile
Performing Rights Society:
Label Affiliation: Unsigned
Geographic
Hometown: Middletown
Country:United States
Touring your Region?: No
Band Description
Shotgun Bill's music style is a blend of coffee house Country Bluesy rock with an original singer / songwriter vibe. He perform at local coffee houses and venues playing a compilation of original songs here at the Jersey Shore.
Album Name: Train Cars and Prison Bars...and a White Guitar
Year Released:
Email Address: william.anania@verizon.net
Website: www.shotgunbillmusic.com
Music Style: Country/Americana
Influences: Beatles We Sound Like: Rockpile
Performing Rights Society:
Label Affiliation: Unsigned
Geographic
Hometown: Middletown
Country:United States
Touring your Region?: No
Band Description
Shotgun Bill's music style is a blend of coffee house Country Bluesy rock with an original singer / songwriter vibe. He perform at local coffee houses and venues playing a compilation of original songs here at the Jersey Shore.
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