Jonathan Wilson - 69 Corvette

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘69 Corvette’ - Jonathan Wilson

LA-based Jonathan Wilson is always a very special songwriter. He has just released his latest single, the reflective and personal ‘69 Corvette’.

Jonathan comments “It’s a trip back in time to my youth in North Carolina; growing up playing guitars, messing around with old Chevys, getting drunk for the first time... It’s a song about traveling and seeking fame and fortune. Most of all, it's a song about my family, my people, who I love very much. Check out the tear-jerking fiddle by the one and only Mark O'Connor.”

https://www.songsofjonathanwilson.com/

Elles Bailey - When I Go Away

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘When I Go Away’ - Elles Bailey

We have loved this excellent Levon Helm cover from Elles since the first time we heard it performed live. It’s a real earworm and it’s the song that was the inspiration for Elle’s wonderful new companion album ‘Blacktop Companion’ released on November 8th. Elles is currently on tour, please catch her and the band if you can.

‘Blacktop Companion’ is a special 9-track companion disc for Elles’s successful second album ‘Road I Call Home’. It’s available for pre-order on her website and features 3 fully-produced, previously-unheard tracks from Elles’’ Road I Call Home’ recording sessions in Nashville; 3 live-in-the-studio alt band versions of songs from ‘Road I Call Home’; acoustic versions of ‘Miss Me When I’m Gone’ and ‘Medicine Man’ and today’s featured track a cover of Levon Helm’s ‘When I Go Away’.

“For me,” Elles reflects, “Blacktop Companion marks the continuation of this epic Road I Call Home adventure that I have travelled for the last year or so and it tells a lot more of the story! It also highlights my incredible live band who have toured this record with me, and I am so grateful for their talents, humour and for just being wonderful human beings!’

If you would like a signed copy of ‘Blacktop Companion’ for £10 + P&P, you can order it from the link below >>>

https://www.ellesbailey.com/product-page/blacktop-companion

Katey Brooks - Trouble So Hard

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Trouble So Hard’ - Katey Brooks

One of our favourite debut albums this year is excellent ‘Revolute’ by LCM favourite and friend Katey Brooks. This powerful, spiritual gospel and blues-infused track has a real classic feel. We love the striped arrangement, the reverb rich electric guitar and Katey’s wonderful vocals.

Katey will be headlining at the Green Note in London on December 17th.

Katey Brooks is a rebellious artist that resists formula. A devastating songwriting talent this ‘rising singer-songwriter had the crowd eating out of her hands’ (The Independent) and is simply ‘not to be missed’ (Time Out). The ‘powerful’ (Evening Standard) songstress defies easy classification, with a sound blending folk, soul, blues and country. Her finger-picked, harmony-inflected sound on the 2016 ’I Fought Lovers’ EP received an enthusiastic reception from radio stations around the UK and internationally, including BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music and CBC Canada and her new album ‘Revolute’ was released in May 2019 to huge critical acclaim across the world. ‘Revolute’ blends soul and folk with Americana to “create something hopefully pretty different…My realm is connection and emotion, something quite raw, I think” – says Katey.

To watch her sing live is to witness emotional exorcism, but when you know her backstory, it’s hardly a mystery why. Growing up inside a cult, as a child Katey found refuge in song. Later, she travelled the world with her guitar on her back, writing everywhere from the Occupied West Bank to an abandoned Finnish island. Over a career spanning four continents, Katey has journeyed from intimate living rooms to opulent concert halls, from dive bars to decorated studios with some of music’s biggest names, boasting famous admirers like Joss Stone. She has recorded with Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones and Paloma Faith at Abbey Road for BBC Radio 2’s Children in Need single. She has shared bills with a host of big names including Newton Faulkner, Ghostpoet, Martin Simpson, Deaf Havana, Lou Rhodes (Lamb), Mike and the Mechanics, and Mystery Jets. She has played some of the world’s biggest festivals including Glastonbury, WOMAD, the 2012 Paralympics, the Cambridge Folk Festival and Australia’s National Folk Festival.

Photo credit: Nina Gilhooley

https://www.kateybrooks.com/

Please purchase Katey’s new album below >>>

Foy Vance - The Strong Hand

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘The Strong Hand’ - Foy Vance

We love the smooth and reflective latest single from Foy’s ‘To Memphis’ album released on September 5th. Foy is currently on tour with his London date at the world-famous Palladium on November 21st.

Foy Vance is a singer and songwriter hailing from the land of Bangor, Northern Ireland. Deeply rooted in the rich musical history and aesthetic of the Southern United States, Foy independently released his debut album Hope in 2007, quickly garnering acclaim from fans and fellow musicians alike. Foy released his second full-length album, Joy of Nothing, in 2013 on Glassnote Records which led to further critical praise and star-studded invites on tours worldwide from the likes of Ed Sheeran, Bonnie Raitt, Marcus Foster, Snow Patrol and Sir Elton John.

Foy was only the second artist signing to Gingerbread Man Records, Ed Sheeran’s label division within Atlantic Records. Foy’s debut recording on Gingerbread Man Records, The Wild Swan, was Executive Produced by Sir Elton John and released in 2016. His music video for the lead single “She Burns” featured “Pretty Little Liars” and People’s Choice Award winner Lucy Hale. His music video for “Coco” featured the inspiration for the song title, Coco Arquette, the daughter of Courteney Cox and David Arquette, and was directed by Cox as well.

Foy’s recent collaborations include “Moonshine” with Kacey Musgraves, the end credits track from Ben Affleck’s film “Live By Night,” four tracks including “Galway Girl” on Ed Sheeran’s album ÷, as well as cuts on recent releases by Miranda Lambert, Plan B and Rudimental.

In 2019, Foy released his two-part project ‘From Muscle Shoals To Memphis’. The two albums pay homage to the deeply rooted Americana and Soul traditions that have influenced Vance’s approach to songwriting. The catalyst for the project was Vance's discovery of old demos he had labeled "Soul" and "Americana" whilst he was searching for inspiration for the follow-up to "The Wild Swan."

Foy has headlined globally to sell-out crowds and resides in the hills of Aberfeldy, Scotland with his family.

http://www.foyvance.com

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Dustbowl Revival - Busted

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Busted’ - Dustbowl Revival

Based in Venice, California and with a perfect blend of Soul, Funk, Roots-Rock, Dustbowl Revival have recently been voted ‘Best Live Band in LA’ by LA Weekly. As a great introduction to their music our track today is the powerful ‘Busted’ taken from their 2017 self-titled album. If you would like to see them live in London, they are playing at Nells tonight.

Dustbowl Revival has always been about pushing the boundaries of what American roots music can be. In many ways, they could have continued creating joyful, booty-shaking songs and cut-to-heart folk-rock ballads that lift up their transcendent live shows and mining new energetic material from the place where folk music, funk and soul meet.

But the band’s newest album,’ Is It You, Is It Me’, set for release on January 31st via their own Medium Expectations label and Nashville’s Thirty Tigers, is something different entirely. Produced by Sam Kassirer [Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter, David Ramirez] and engineered by Brian Joseph [Bon Iver, Local Natives, Sufjan Stevens], it represents the latest stage in a band that never stops evolving and refuses to stand still.

After celebrating over a decade of sonic adventuring, playing thousands of shows together in ten countries and counting, and collecting a devoted and growing fanbase coast-to-coast, the six core members -- founder Z. Lupetin, Liz Beebe, Josh Heffernan, Matt Rubin, Ulf Bjorlin and Connor Vance knew they had to create something bigger.

The 13 new songs were not road-tested and tired out by the time they made it to the recording studio: in fact Kassirer inspired the band to create the album in a two-week flash of intense creativity, with many of the songs layered and composed day-by-day in the studio. Acting like a nimble rock orchestra, each member played multiple instruments, and the group brought in new musicians on symphonic brass, and local friends to sing as a spur-of-the-moment choir.

Photo credit: Shervin Lainez

http://www.dustbowlrevival.com/

Roswell - Restless

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Restless’ - Roswell

LCM EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE

We have something very special for you today. The wonderful new single by LCM favorites Zoe Wren and Jasmine Watkiss, better known as the award-winning Americana/ Folk duo Roswell.

‘Restless’ is the first of three singles from the duo’s forthcoming second studio EP set for release in February 2020. The new single ‘Restless’ released today is part confessional, part protest song. It bridges the gap between a thirst for personal progress and dissatisfaction with world politics – touching on issues such as the UK’s economic crisis, climate change and mental health.

The track features stirring three-part vocal harmonies and energetic banjo, underpinned by an accompaniment of guitar, ukulele, mandolin, bass and percussion. It was recorded and produced by Dan Wilde at Gladeside Studio in Cambridge.

The single is available for download.below >>>>

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https://www.roswellband.co.uk

Molly Tuttle - The High Road

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘The High Road’ - Molly Tuttle

After a fantastic performance last night at Bush Hall in London our featured artist today is the excellent multi-award-winning Molly Tuttle. We love her pure vocals, superb guitar playing and songwriting. This live version of ‘The High Road’ was recorded at Layman Drug Company in Nashville. Please check out her latest album ‘When You’re Ready’.

Molly is currently on a UK and mainland Europe tour with her band. She is in Oxford tonight and Brighton on Thursday. Support comes from the wonderful Emily Mae Winters. Catch them if you can.

https://www.mollytuttlemusic.com

Robert Vincent - This Town

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘This Town’ - Robert Vincent

As an early taster of Rob’s highly anticipated forthcoming new album, he has released earlier today the wonderful ‘This Town’ . We are big fans of Rob’s music here at LCM and we are really looking forward to listening to more of the album. We hear that it’s excellent.

Rob will be bringing his band to play a C2C UTAT special at Bush Hall in London on October 25th. The line-up also included Curse of Lono and Foreign Affairs.

Robert Vincent is an award-winning singer/songwriter from Liverpool – having received the inaugural Emerging Artist Award from “Whispering” Bob Harris in 2016 and UK Americana Music Association’s UK Album of The Year in 2018.

Seeing him play at the Bluebird Café’s Bluecoat event, the legendary broadcaster immediately invited Rob to record an Under The Apple Tree Session in his home studio and for his BBC Radio 2 “Country” show - describing him as “absolutely magnetic”.

Rob credits his story-telling style of songwriting to his upbringing – where his formative years were spent listening to his father’s record collection including Emmylou Harris, Charlie Rich and Waylon Jennings, plus his older brother’s introduction to Pink Floyd.

In 2013, he released his debut album, ‘Life In Easy Steps’ - with the title track receiving national airplay from Janice Long and Radcliffe & Maconie – and he’s subsequently toured the UK supporting Paul Carrack, James Blunt, Squeeze and The Pretenders at Royal Albert Hall.

Recorded in his hometown and mixed in Nashville by Grammy Award-winning producer Ray Kennedy, his second full-length release #I’ll Make The Most of My Sins’ sees him sited by The Guardian as one the UK’s top Americana artists.

Robt hit the road in Spring for ‘Hearts of Glass’ Tour supporting Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman and closed the show with his performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test: For One Night Only on BBC4. This Summer, he’s been on the supporting bill for his hero Roger Waters in Hyde Park at British Summer Time and will join “The Titan of Twang” Duane Eddy across the UK on his 80th birthday tour in October.

https://www.robvincentmusic.com

Randy Houser - No Stone Unturned

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘No Stone Unturned’ - Randy Houser

‘No Stone Unturned’ is a great track from Mississippi born Randy’s latest highly anticipated fifth studio album ‘Magnolia’, which was released back in January. We met Randy a couple of years ago in London at Bush Hall. Please out his album. Highly recommended.

Randy comments, 'When writing for this new project, I knew the production had to lean on songs and melodies, not a bunch of tricks and loops. That was the catalyst for the album. So, for the past two years we've been focused on trying to find a unique sound and trying to best serve the songs.'

https://www.randyhouser.com

Please order your copy below >>>>

Danni Nicholls - Lemonade

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Lemonade’ - Danni Nicholls

Our LCM featured track today is the beautiful ‘Lemonade’ taken from Danni’s excellent latest album ‘The Melted Morning’.

Danni is currently on tour with her next London date at The Grace on October 30th.

Danni comments “I recently returned to MOXE, Nashville where we made the album 'The Melted Morning'. This video ended up being filmed completely spontaneously! The setting, energy, light - everything - was just right for this song and I just knew it had to be captured. So glad we acted on that impulse. 'Lemonade' is a song about staying strong, and holding on to hope and trust in the face of adversity. Couldn't have done it without the incredible skills of Photo Laura who shot and edited. ❤ Enjoy and feel free to share this far and wide!

Photo credit: Rebecca Need-Menear

https://www.danninicholls.com

Caitlyn Smith - Tacoma

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Tacoma’ - Caitlyn Smith

Our LCM featured track is the beautiful ‘Tacoma’ taken from Caitlyn’s debut album ‘Starfire’. Caitlyn released her critically-acclaimed debut album on Monument Records in 2018, and she is now gearing up to release new music from her highly-anticipated second album.It’s one that we are really looking forward to reviewing.

Caitlyn Smith has become one of today's most prolific storytellers and celebrated vocalists. After moving to Nashville and securing a publishing deal, her songwriting immediately got her noticed with her compositions being recorded by artists from James Bay to Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton to John Legend and Meghan Trainor (for whom she co-wrote the multi-platinum duet “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”).

http://www.caitlynsmith.com

Worry Dolls - The River

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘The River’ - Worry Dolls

‘The River’ is the brand new Country Rock single from London based Worry Dolls. The video features Zoe and Rosie having a lot of fun with smoke bombs and it was produced by Ekaterina Staneva. The song also features CJ Hillman on electric guitar, Pete Thomas on bass and Tim Prottey-Jones on drums. The track was produced by Aidan Laverty, one-half of Hoxton-based production duo Huntsmen (Foals, Scott Matthews) and offers a change sonically, led by electric guitars, re-amplified banjo, and a driving beat, as well as those signature Worry Doll harmonies.

Zoe and Rosie will be on their UK and European tour shortly with their London date and EP launch at The Lexington on November 8th, with guests include Robbie Cavanagh.

For Rosie and Zoe, there seems to be an almost irresistible pull to the river; a ‘safe space’ which signifies a sense of both home, and life on the road. ‘The River’ is also the title of their upcoming single and much-anticipated EP. Having met as music students near the River Mersey in Liverpool, before graduating and moving to London’s Greenwich. They found a spiritual home in Nashville, where they lived, wrote & recorded their 2017 debut ‘Go Get Gone’ with Grammy-nominated producer Neilson Hubbard. Rosie & Zoe reflect on seeking solace by the waterside, from the Tennessee Cumberland River, right back to their earliest childhood memories. A River seems to be an apt symbol – it is solid and permanent in many ways, but the water is constantly in flux, constantly evolving. The enduring location of a river reflects the solidity of their musical unity, but the motion of the water reflects recent changes in both of their respective personal lives.

The songs on The River EP deal with grittier and more urgent themes. From dealing with the loss of loved ones; coming to terms with sexuality and mental health struggles, to the many ways a heart can break and be rebuilt. Life’s permanence is constantly in motion. Whatever it throws at you, you know the river is always in motion, but it’s still permanent. Like home.

http://www.worrydollsmusic.com

Miranda Lambert - Bluebird

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Bluebird’ - Miranda Lambert

We love this new track from Miranda’s forthcoming album ‘Wildcard’ set for release on November 1st. It is a co-write with Luke Dick and Natalie Hemby. The song finds Miranda Lambert taking a positive attitude toward life's tough times. One of the inspirations was the Charles Bukowski poem Bluebird, a favorite of Luke Dick. The concept of resilience when things are going bad is a common theme throughout ‘Wildcard’, with the album title coming from this song.

We think this track will be a big hit for Miranda.

Miranda is currently in the US on her ‘Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars’ tour

Please pre-order the album below >>>

Ashley McBryde - Southern Babylon

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Southern Babylon’ - Ashley McBryde

We love this live version of Ashley’s ‘Southern Babylon’ recorded recently in Nashville. It’s taken from her debut studio album. Her new second album is due shortly, which we think will be very special.

Charlie Worsham ft OCMS - I Hope I'm Stoned

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘I Hope I’m Stoned (When Jesus Takes Me Home) - Charlie Worsham ft OCMS

One thing we love about Country music is the great titles and wide ranging subject matter. Our featured track today is a catchy and clever bluegrass collaboration between Charlie Worsham and the Old Crow Medicine Show. We think it has the feel of the ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’ soundtrack.

https://www.charlieworsham.com

Elles Bailey - Deeper

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Deeper’ - Elles Bailey

Our featured track today is a great single from LCM favourite Elles Bailey. The wonderful ‘Deeper’ is taken from her excellent latest album ‘Road I Call Home’. The track was written by Elles, Dan Demay and Daryl Burgess. Enjoy!

Catch Elles and the band live if you can. All UK and mainland Europe tour dates are on her website.

https://www.ellesbailey.com

Luke Jackson - Baby Boomers

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Baby Boomers’ - Luke Jackson

‘Baby Boomers’ is the brand new single from one of our favourite singer-songwriters Luke Jackson. It’s taken from Luke’s forthcoming fifth studio album ‘Journals’ set for release on November 8th We have an advanced copy and it’s excellent. Luke is currently touring the USA, but will be back in the UK in October with his album launch show in Canterbury on November 3rd. The album is also our LCM ‘Album Of The Month’ for November.

You can pre-order Luke’s new album below or directly through his website >>>

Luke is a Singer-Songwriter from Canterbury, Kent, who in 2013 was nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and The Young Folk Category. He was also winner of Fatea’s “Male Artist of the Year 2014” and 2016 and his live album ‘Solo:Duo:Trio’ was voted 2018 Album of the Year by Laurel Canyon Music.

Over the past few years he has steadily developed a reputation for himself in the Folk, Roots, Americana & Acoustic circuits, either through his solo shows, many festival appearances or when opening for such luminaries as Fairport Convention, Show of Hands, Steve Knightley, Martyn Joseph, Seth Lakeman, Karine Polwart, Oysterband, Paul Brady, Glen Tilbrook and Sarah Jarosz . As well as playing solo, Luke also performs as a Duo or Trio. In addition to the UK, he regularly tours across Europe playing in France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. In 2016 and 2017 he visited the USA to play at the International Folk Alliance conference in Kansas and again in early 2019 when the conference was held in Ontario, Canada. Luke has completed several joint headline tours with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Amy Wadge, with Folk Award-winning duo Greg Russel and Ciaran Algar and American singer-songwriter Rebecca Loebe.

Wildwood Kin - Time Has Come

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Time Has Come’ - Wildwood Kin

With an exciting self-titled second album set for release on October 4th, our featured track today is from the wonderful multi-award-winning West Country family trio Wildwood Kin.

They will be on their UK tour shortly with their album launch show at All Saints Church, Kingston Upon Thames on October 10th and a further London date at Omeara on November 11th.

Pre-order your copy below >>>

Teddy Swims - I Can't Make You Love Me

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ - Teddy Swims

Our featured track today is a great cover of a Bonnie Raitt classic. We love Teddy’s vocals and it reminds us of Chris Stapleton at times. The song was originally written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin

Jaten Dimsdale, known by his moniker, Teddy Swims, is an American singer and songwriter from Atlanta, GA. Teddy grew up navigating different worlds: he was a football player, a musical theater student and the grandson of a Pentecostal pastor.

Photo credit: Christian Zajicek

https://teddyswims.com

Playing For Change - The Weight

LCM Song Of The Day: ‘The Weight’ - Playing For Change

With musicians playing across five continents our LCM featured track today is the classic ‘The Weight’ originally recorded by The Band. We love this worldwide collaboration and concept. The wonderful joy of music bringing people together.

See if you can spot some familiar faces……

Great songs can travel everywhere bridging what divides us and inspiring us to see how easily we all get along when the music plays. Special thanks to Cambria® and to Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr and all the musicians for joining in celebrating 50 years of this classic song. Take a load off and turn it up!!

Dedicated To "The Band" Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson

Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music, born from the shared belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. Their primary focus is to record and film musicians performing in their natural environments and combine their talents and cultural power in innovative videos we call ‘Songs Around the World’. Creating these videos motivated them to form the Playing For Change Band—a tangible, traveling representation of our mission, featuring musicians met along our journey; and establish the Playing For Change Foundation—a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to building music and art schools for children around the world. Through these efforts, we aim to create hope and inspiration for the future of our planet.

Learn more: http://playingforchange.com