2015 Album Releases

[beantownbubba]

The Bottle Rockets - new record in the spring.

I hear the executive production on this one is superb.

[jr29]

Mark Edgar Stuart, a wonderful Memphis singer, songwriter, and session musician, is releasing his second solo album on February, 24. I highly recommend.

[jr29]

I have never heard a Sinatra song I enjoy

Seriously?

I cannot imagine Dylan's interpretations of the songs will change my mind.

I'm sure you're right about this part.

It's just not my thing.

[tinnitus photography]

count me among the Sinatra dontgiveashit types.

[linkous]

count me among the Sinatra dontgiveashit types.

me too..

Pretty underwhelmed at the thought of this Dylan album tbh, not really been too big a fan of the last few albums (mainly due to vocals), but will wait to hear first before making mind up.

[beantownbubba]

Hard to understand what you dontgiveashitaboutsinatra folks hear (or don't hear) but that has nothing to do w/ dylan singing sinatra - it's hard to imagine a worse musical idea.

[tinnitus photography]

i just don't see anything interesting about Sinatra's music. that '50s vocal style of music is not my thing at all.


now this is a different story....love this song.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

This vault release, which according to the blurb at Amazon, has been remastered by Lindley and Jackson Browne, is due for release on January 20th.

[Smitty]

There's a lot of days where Sinatra's my favorite singer.

[Clams]

There's a lot of days where Sinatra's my favorite singer.

The breadth and depth of smitty's musical wellspring never ceases to amaze.

[beantownbubba]

There's a lot of days where Sinatra's my favorite singer.

The breadth and depth of smitty's musical wellspring never ceases to amaze.

Well, apparently it has ceased to amaze linkous, tin & jr

[hanklow]

Hard to understand what you dontgiveashitaboutsinatra folks hear (or don't hear) but that has nothing to do w/ dylan singing sinatra - it's hard to imagine a worse musical idea.

The Christmas album? Actually that was done for a good cause.

I'm not too enamored by the idea for new album either…I don't really care for the song he's released for it…and he closed with another song off it most of the fall and I didn't dig it either.

[tinnitus photography]

There's a lot of days where Sinatra's my favorite singer.

The breadth and depth of smitty's musical wellspring never ceases to amaze.

Well, apparently it has ceased to amaze linkous, tin & jr

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Hard to understand what you dontgiveashitaboutsinatra folks hear (or don't hear) but that has nothing to do w/ dylan singing sinatra - it's hard to imagine a worse musical idea.

The Christmas album? Actually that was done for a good cause.

I'm not too enamored by the idea for new album either…I don't really care for the song he's released for it…and he closed with another song off it most of the fall and I didn't dig it either.

The funny thing is, Dylan doesn't really give a shit what anyone thinks. That's always been one of his most admirable qualities, same for Neil.

[hanklow]

The funny thing is, Dylan doesn't really give a shit what anyone thinks. That's always been one of his most admirable qualities, same for Neil.

Agreed.

[LBRod]

The funny thing is, Dylan doesn't really give a shit what anyone thinks. That's always been one of his most admirable qualities, same for Neil.

Agreed.

Fair enough, but I have no desire to hear Bob sing Sinatra.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Chris Porter of The Back Row Baptists, Some Dark Holler and Porter and the Pollies has his Will Johnson produced debut solo record out this spring This Red Mountain. Here's a track:

http://chrisportermusic.net/this-red-mountain

[tinnitus photography]

new Elder is dropping in February. Hopefully Al can figure out what he wants and there's a new OM album to greet us too. it's already late.

[dbtfan4life]

Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts, Blaster. out March 31st on Softdrive Records

[linkous]

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lis ... s-of-2015/

[Zip City]

Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield have an album of Elliot Smith covers coming out on March 17

[Duke Silver]

Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield have an album of Elliot Smith covers coming out on March 17

[CalebCalebson]

Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield have an album of Elliot Smith covers coming out on March 17

I dig the Avetts but have never been able to get into Eliott Smith at all outside his tracks in Goodwill Hunting.

His discography puts me to sleep.

[Tequila Cowboy]

The Avetts are just OK to me, I never really listened to Elliot Smith but I do really like Jessica Lea Mayfield for what that's worth.

[LBRod]

The Avetts are just OK to me, I never really listened to Elliot Smith but I do really like Jessica Lea Mayfield for what that's worth.

Agree with the first part, but I gave Jessica about 30 minutes at HSB a few years ago, got bored and moved on.

[Smitty]

Avetts are boring, Elliot Smith is OK (but vastly overrated) but I really dig Jessica Lea Mayfield even if I was a tad disappointed in her last record.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Nice quote from Patterson here. Wishing these guys much success, they deserve it.

[dee dee]

Elephant Micah to release Where In Our Woods
RIYL: Will Oldham, jimmy jack, HGM, or Jason Molina


http://productofpalmyra.elephantmicah.com/releases

A painstaking work of minimalism, Where in Our Woods is defined by its limited palette. The arrangements foreground nylon-string guitar and an antique portable pump organ. A stripped- down drum set (played by Matthew O’Connell, Joe’s brother), a baritone ukulele, a toy recorder, and harmony vocals (sung by Will Oldham, a friend of and key influence on O’Connell) round out the sound. This sparse ensemble leaves O’Connell’s voice room to breathe, while elevating and magnifying the poetry of his songs.

The album follows an ensemble cast of human and animal characters as they negotiate the supernatural and the mundane: “Light Side” catalogues a friend’s search for sublime experience through a self-described “redneck mysticism” involving in drugs, sex, and travel. “Rare Beliefs” and “Demise of the Bible Birds” explore the world of a "Bible Bird Man" from Noblesville, Indiana, who trained exotic birds to perform stunning Christian-themed stunts. “Albino Animals” is a modern day journalistic ballad, summarizing three stories found in one edition of O'Connell's hometown newspaper: readers responding to the recent slaying of an albino deer, husband-and-wife meth cooks escape federal prosecution based on an error in legal process, and a rower with local roots attempts a transatlantic passage that ends in disaster.

The album closes with “Slow Time Vultures,” which was inspired by the descent of hundreds of migrating vultures on O'Connell's parents’ farm in southern Indiana. At the time of this avian congress, state government was instituting the observance of daylight savings time for the first time in Indiana. As O’Connell explains, "Maybe it goes without saying that the unexplained appearance of a sky full of vultures might seem like a harbinger of doom. I wondered if it related to the time change. At its core, this song is in the tradition of American country songs that express indignation toward the idea of progress." Throughout the album, O'Connell deftly transforms the stuff of everyday American life into a series of entrancing meditations on culture, nature, religion, and modernity.

[WoodDuck]

What's not to like here? Solid harmonies, tight as a duck's ass, good songwriting.

And here I was thinking you'd forgotten.

[Jonicont]

What's not to like here? Solid harmonies, tight as a duck's ass, good songwriting.

And here I was thinking you'd forgotten.

Ducky!