I See Sky - Hannah White

We are delighted to announce that our next LCM featured artist Hannah White and her husband Keiron Marshall will be opening the Independent Music Day show for us on the 24th February at The Sound Lounge. Hannah and Keiron are very good singer-songwriters as well as the wonderful owners of this new award-winning venue. Hannah is also currently planning to release her highly anticipated new album later this year. One all of us here are greatly looking forward to hearing. Our LCM #TrackOfTheDay is the very catchy 'I See Sky' from Hannah's recent album 'Who Side Are You On?' 

http://www.hannahwhitemusic.com/

Rosie - Josh Rennie-Hynes

For our next LCM featured artist we travel to the warmer weather and sunny Australia, the home of indie singer-songwriter Josh Rennie-Hynes. Josh released his new album 'Furthermore' in August last year and our LCM #TrackOfTheDay is the first single 'Rosie'. We have been enjoying Josh's album and it reminds us in part of Andrew Combs. https://youtu.be/60Pgvyyb7kk

There’s been a real buzz building around Josh Rennie-Hynes in the last few years. Relatively new to the scene, he’s quickly garnered praise as one of the Australia’s finest young Songwriters. 
Josh lives and breathes his music and songs, and this passion for his craft burns bright for all to see. He combines his love of honest and raw storytelling with deep introspection to create songs that are timeless and familiar, yet uniquely his own.

2014 saw him release his debut Album ‘February’ through MGM. The album was produced and recorded by ARIA award winning artist, Shane Nicholson and received much critical acclaim.

In late 2015, Josh stepped back into his Studio on the family farm in Woodford, Queensland, to begin work on his second album. 'Furthermore’ is a stunning collection of 11 songs that were recorded over the period of three weeks. Working everyday from morning until late night, Josh produced, engineered and recorded all of the songs alongside his friend and collaborator, Steve Grady. Together they played the bulk of the instruments; with a focus on capturing the essence of each song and building it from a Bedrock live performance of just Josh and a Guitar. The result is an album which is organic, cohesive, yet also eclectic, with Rennie-Hynes’ warm and assured Vocal providing the common thread throughout. Furthermore also features guest appearances from two time Grammy nominated Artist, Kim Richey, who sang on ‘I’ll Go Home’ Olivia Hally from OhPep! who sang on ‘Shining Down’, a song Josh and Olivia co wrote, and fellow Queensland born songwriter and multi instrumentalist Dan Parsons features on multiple tracks, lending guitar, harmony and percussion throughout. ‘Furthermore’ was released in late August 2016 and has been garnering incredible reviews.

http://www.joshrenniehynes.com

New Friend - Adam Sweet

Our next LCM featured artist is a blues, rock and roots singer-songwriter and superb guitarist from the South West of England. Adam Sweet will be releasing his brand new EP 'Take Your Time' tomorrow. We have an advanced copy and it is very good (review coming soon). His first single from the EP and our LCM #TrackOfTheDay is the wonderful bluesy 'New Friend'. Love the guitar riff on this one :) 

We first met Adam when he was playing at the Folkstock 'Love Folk Live' event with Alan West and Steve Black.....and we have been very impressed every since.

Adam first picked up a guitar aged 7. He took to it quickly, but the primary school guitar classes didn’t exactly set his imagination on fire. A brief foray into classical guitar also failed to provide the spark he needed, but his interest in the guitar continued to gently smoulder into his early teens. It was at this point that Adam was taken to see his first ever gig when 'The Hamsters' came to play the Marine Theatre in his hometown of Lyme Regis, and suddenly things began hotting up. Inspired by this first live experience, and with the help of some of his Dad’s old records, he began unearthing the classic rock riffs and driving blues of the 60s and 70s that he had been missing out on. It didn’t take long to form his first band with a couple of likeminded classmates and by the age of 15 they were performing regularly on the local circuit. In the years that followed Adam could regularly be found recreating the music of his new-found guitar heroes around the South West of England. Since those early days Adam has steadily honed his craft and found his voice, and with well over 1,000 gigs under his belt is now successfully carving out a solo career.

Adam’s debut album ‘Small Town Thinking’ was released on independent East Devon label NEO Music at the turn on 2013/14. With his acoustic guitar providing the foundation Adam and producer Alan West built the album from their Devon studio, calling on Alan’s long time friend and Nashville based producer Thomm Jutz to add a little extra magic in the form of some of Music City’s finest session players. The album steadily gathered critical acclaim throughout 2014 in the music press and received national and international radio play. Adam was featured in Classic Rock’s Blues Magazine as ‘One to Watch’ for 2014, and the rave reviews of the album included a full 5 star rating and ‘Album of the Month’ in Guitar Technique Magazine’s July 2014 edition, praising the album for offering a “whole new perspective on the (blues) genre”.

Adam is currently writing the follow up to his debut album, working again with award winning stalwart singer/songwriter Steve Black – a collaboration that proved so successful on the first album. He will also be a releasing a new EP entitled ‘Take Your Time’ in January 2017, presenting some of his latest material in a stripped back acoustic format with a closer resemblance to his one-man shows. The EP, performed and produced solely by Adam, will also feature material co-written with principal songwriter and founder member of Level 42, Boon Gould.

Alongside a thriving solo career Adam fronts rock trio The Perfect Strangers, who for 6 years have been steadily working the West Country venues celebrating the classic rock and blues music that first got Adam properly hooked on the guitar. Stints with other bands have included a spell as lead guitarist for indie rockers Sweet Black Angels where during this time they supported the likes of Alabama 3 and performed as the headline band at Noel Gallagher’s after-show parties in Cardiff and at London’s O2. Adam can also be found performing with Alan West and Steve Black, adding an extra dimension and an edge to their laid back Country and Americana. Appearances with Alan and Steve have included the Country2Country festival at London’s O2 in 2013 and 2014, and as hosts of the annual Midwinterfest since January 2015. Adam accompanied Alan West in session on Bob Harris’ BBC Radio 2 show aired in March 2014, and his guitar work featured on Alan’s 2014 release ‘All Things for a Reason’. 2016 has seen the release of Steve Black’s latest album ‘Right Here and Now’ which features Adam’s guitars on every track.

http://www.adamsweetmusic.com