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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Want Me Back’ - Lindsay Ell
The always wonderful Lindsay Ell releases her latest single ‘Want Me Back’ . It’s the first track from her forthcoming album ‘Heart Theory’ set for release on August 14th.
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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Redwood Tree’ - Cam
“Redwood Tree” was co-written by Cam, Tyler Johnson (Harry Styles, Sam Smith) and Anders Mouridsen, and produced by Tyler Johnson. The song was largely inspired by the majestic Redwood Tree in the backyard of Cam’s childhood home. Redwoods can grow for thousands of years and are a symbol for community and communication. They are believed to tap into psychic abilities connected with past lives and other dimensions of reality, which ties into our defining human relationship with time.
“I grew up with a redwood tree in my backyard as my climbing tree. Spent so many afternoons up there as a kid looking out and dreaming about the future,” says Cam. “It feels like I’ve lived 5 lifetimes since then - I’ve done more than I can even remember, but still part of me wishes I could’ve stayed put, to have that time at home. But you can’t be in two places once and you couldn’t have known then what you know now. It’s a song about time, and whatever way you spend it still feels like just a blink to a redwood tree.”
With it’s lessons in learning and gratitude, this song is a wonderful early taster of Cam’s second album.
Photo credit: Chelsea Kornse
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Hollywood Gypsy’ - Twinnie
Our LCM featured song today is the wondeful title track of Twinnie’s debut album released on April 17th.
On the strength of the songs the Yorkshire-born, Nashville-hearted singer-songwriter has created for her forthcoming debut album Hollywood Gypsy, we’ll be hearing her name repeated far and wide over the coming months and years. Now it’s time for the rest of the musical world to catch up with what country music-watchers – who clocked Twinnie’s stand-out performances at last year’s C2C festival at London’s O2 – have known for a while: this Brit is a future international star.
“The title of the album pretty much sums me up,” says this frank, funny, fearless woman – a restless, up-for-it creative. “My mam and dad were very different, two different cultures, and I grew up between those,” Twinnie continues of a heritage that includes Romany Gypsy – hence the other half of that album title. “And I created that in my adult life, my own normal. I have one life in Nashville, and another here. I’m never settled unless I’m in transit. I am a traveller by nature and by heritage, so I am quite free.”
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Crowded Table’ - The Highwomen
Taken from one of our favourite albums from 2019, our featured track today is the latest single by the US award-winning supergroup The Highwomen. We love the sentiments in the song, as they are so timely.
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Carolina In The Pines’ - The Petersens
Our LCM featured track today is a great live version of ‘Carolina In The Pines’ by US family band The Petersens, The song was originally written by Michael Martin Murphey.
The Petersens are based in Branson, MO. The band consists of Katie Petersen on fiddle, Ellen Petersen on banjo, Matt Petersen on guitar, Julianne Petersen on mandolin, Karen Petersen on bass, and Emmett Franz on dobro.
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Tuesday I’ll Be Gone’ - John Anderson ft Blake Shelton
Our LCM featured track today featuring Blake Shelton is taken from John Anderson’s latest album ‘Years’ released on April 10th. It was produced by the always excellent Dan Auerbach.
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Nothing Good Comes Out Of California’ - Maddie Poppe
We head to Clarksville, Iowa today to meet our next featured artist US award-winning singer-songwriter Maddie Poppe. This track is taken from Maddie's latest album ‘Whirlwind’ released in May last year. Maddie was also the Season 16 winner of ABC’s American Idol.
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘The Fool’ - Casey Jane
Our LCM featured track today is a beautiful live version of ‘The Fool’ by New Orleans based singer-songwriter Casey Jane Reece-Kaigler. The video was shot in New Orleans outside the heart-filled Tigermen Den in the streets of NOLA as part of a Western AF session.
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Before I Met You’ - Sierra Ferrell
Our featured track today is a lovely live cover version by very talented Nashville based singer-songwriter Sierra Ferrell. On this recent Western AF video on a boat in New Orleans Sierra is joined by Audrey MacAlpine and Nate Leath. Sierra has recently signed to the excellent Rounder Records.
Sierra is described as a jingle-jangling gypsy tornado of sound hailing from Charleston, West Virginia. Wicked and wild, her sirens call an oil spill, floating atop thee languid waves of torment, a nanny-nanny-bew-bew to the ocean beneath, she caresses thee buoying masses, holding them aloft with the effortless grace of a branch-bearing dove. Born from the dark, rich soil of West Virginia, raised in the clear, hop-scented country air, Sierra Ferrell cut her teeth on the rail lines, truck stops, street corners, and dingy, dimly lit listening rooms all across the land, belting out her old-time melodies, sorcery, drawing her patrons, ever more deeply, into her animated tapestry of forlorn, star-crossed love, of longing, poverty, of suffering and triumph, encompassing that irreconcilable thrum of the human spirit and all the complexities of emotion that comes with it.
One moment, with startling clarity, she calls to bear the opium opulence, that seductively solemn sojourn of the 1920s jazz club stage, the next, she'll have you talking to your toes, dancing in careless merriment, whirling, winking, and carrying on with all the confidence of a honky-tonk king or queen, while she plays, sings, stomps, and yodels out the utter essence of the honky-tonk country blues. You turn to your partner, peer into their eyes with the recognition of a perfect moment, and plant a kiss firmly upon their lips. They smile as your lips meet, pull you in tighter, romance...is born anew!
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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Bluebird’ - Miranda Lambert
One of our favourite songs from Miranda’s latest ‘Wildcard’ album now has a wonderful new video.directed by Trey Fanjoy. Miranda wears blue feathers and sits inside her own birdcage, surrounded by an audience straight out of the Moulin Rouge firm. It’s a fitting visual for the song, which pays tribute not only to actual Bluebird, but also to Nashville’s Bluebird Café, a well-known venue for emerging talent and established artists in the city.
“I love ‘Bluebird,’ it’s a song like I’ve never written before and I’m so proud to be a part of it,” Miranda comments. “Since I wrote it, I’ve been seeing bluebirds everywhere. The bluebirds had always been there — I live on a farm — but I never saw them like I see them now. It reminds me to open my eyes to what’s around me. Now, seeing a bluebird sitting on a branch means so much more to me. I see a little piece of hope there, sitting with wings, and it’s a reminder. I think this is one of those songs where every person takes what they need to from it.”
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Calico’ - Brooke White
Our featured track today is the beautiful ‘Calico’ by LA-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brooke White. It’s the stomping groove and sunny storytelling title track from Brooke’s new album released in October last year, ‘Calico’ is short for “California Country’ and we love the West Coast Laurel Canyon and Nashville crossover sound,
“It’s about how we make plans, and those plans change, but it works out—sometimes even for the better,” Brokke comments. “That’s happened so many times in my life: from ending up on American Idol to having to wait for babies to making the record how and where I did. L.A. is the place where dreamers, creators, and artists come, because anything can happen here. That’s why I’m here. ‘Calico’ is about letting go of what you thought it would be and embracing what it is and where you are and who you are... making the most of it and loving it.” In the end, Calico is a place you won’t want to leave anytime soon...
Brooke moved west from her native desert home in 2003 in hopes of becoming a singer-songwriter. She spent a handful of years chasing the dream, writing songs, cutting hair in her bathroom and nannying twins. She finally landed her big break when she was granted a golden ticket on American Idol's seventh season to perform on the nation’s biggest stage, where millions of viewers formed an emotional bond and welcomed her barefoot-at-the-piano style into their homes on a weekly basis.
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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘You Were Mine’ - Tami Neilson
We love this powerful live acoustic version of ‘You Were Mine’ by New Zealand based Tami Neilson taken from a recent SiriusXM session at the Dine Alone Records Store in Toronto. The track is featured on Tami’s latest album ‘Chickaboom!’ released on February 14th via Outlaw Music
No one forgets the first time they saw Tami Neilson. She can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit of Patsy Cline or the sensuality of Peggy Lee, or bring the audience to its feet on a rockabilly raver. She's an artist with real range, whose powerful voice can take on big ballads, golden-age country, heartfelt Gospel, soul-infused R&B, Western swing, even old-style rock 'n' roll. Tami encompasses them all and is a personality-powered cyclonic force of nature in stylishly retro attire, long lashes and a stacked-high beehive.
Of her new album's title, CHICKABOOM!, Tami explains, 'I wanted to write an album of punchy little songs, popping firecrackers that, when stripped back to nothing but a guitar, percussion and two voices, would still go boom!' The new collection brings much personal and family history to the table. Tami grew up performing across North America with the Neilson Family Band, working alongside greats such as Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, and Kitty Wells. Subsequently, Tami fell in love with a New Zealander, moved to the bottom of the world and began her solo career without the support of the family. Her early records saw her in a self-created territory between mainstream country and alternative country, with awards in New Zealand for albums that added breadth to her 'country singer' label: Best Female Artist, Best Country Album, Best Country Song, an APRA Silver Scroll (songwriting) award and Album of the Year nominations.
Her Dynamite! album of 2014 received rave reviews in Britain's MOJO and the Guardian named it a Top 10 Best Country Music Album. Tami's songs appeared on the Netflix series Wanted and the terrestrial TV series Nashville. Tami Neilson's singing and writing is too big to contain, as HMV Canada noted: 'There are singers and then there is Tami Neilson, for whom the word singer just isn't big enough.' The road has now led to CHICKABOOM!, which is something different again, and even more personal. 'In the past year, I started to notice something,' she says. 'The artists I would spend time with backstage at festivals, the ones I gravitated to the most and followed on social media ... artists like the Secret Sisters, Shovels & Rope, Kasey Chambers, Brandi Carlile ... they all had family performing with them. When you tour away from loved ones, it makes a world of difference to have part of your village with you on the road. Not to mention, nothing can come close to that special blend of blood harmonies and silent communication that only comes from being onstage with a person for over 30 years. Family has always been a huge part my music-writing, recording and creating with me, but I wanted family on this project and on the road with me again.'
Brother Jay flew to Auckland, New Zealand from Toronto to record a selection of new songs that have unmistakable sibling magic and harmonies. 'I don't think he quite understands what he's gotten himself into but now the album's coming out it's a bit too late. Sucker,' she laughs. And if you've missed Tami before ' on record or in concert ' then you are in for a treat ... and you might not quite understand what you've gotten yourself into either. As we say: you'll never forget the first time you saw Tami.
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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘The Long Haul’ - American Aquarium
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina our next featured band are five-piece Rock & Roll and Alt-Country band American Aquarium. ‘The Long Haul’ is the brand new single from their forthcoming album 'Lamentations,' set for release on May 1st.
Ultimately, ‘Lamentations’ is a thrilling portrait of an artist and his band reaching new levels of skill, consciousness, and potential after 20 years in the trenches. Unruly and sincere, BJ Barham emerges as an important American voice and an unlikely peacemaker. “I’ve had to work really hard to carry water as a songwriter,” he says. “It feels really good to be in my mid-30s, writing songs that I think matter. I think when you listen to this record, something is going to change in you. You’re going to feel something. That’s the most important part of songwriting: making someone feel.
http://www.americanaquarium.com/
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LCM Song OF The Day: ‘Long Time Coming’ - Caitlyn Smith
Our LCM featured song today is the brand new single from one of our favourite US singer-songwriters Caitlyn Smith. The powerful ‘Long Time Coming’ is taken from her wonderful recently released second album ‘Supernova’.
With the 2018 release of her debut album, 'Starfire', Caitlyn established herself as one of the brightest rising stars in music; her finely etched writing and soulful voice earned her numerous television appearances and high-profile touring slots. Now, with the follow-up, 'Supernova', the singer-songwriter who garnered acclaim from Rolling Stone, Billboard, and countless critics has upped the ante, delivering a set of songs that are bigger, bolder, and more powerful sonically and lyrically.
http://www.caitlynsmith.com/
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Small Town Hypocrite’ - Caylee Hammack
We start this week with a few recommendations of artists to see at the C2C Festiva in London next week. First up is Georgia born singer-songwriter Caylee Hammack, with a personal and reflective new single about small-town life and relationships. A very honest and raw track about Caylee's experience of setting aside her dreams for love and a no-good guy, who then summons her personal strength to move on. Caylee is also currently working on her debut album.
Caylee Hammack constantly felt like a self-described “hippie in a hillbilly town” in her tiny hometown of Ellaville, Georgia. “I used to pray every night as a kid, ‘God, just please make me different. Don’t make me like everyone else,’” she remembers. Caylee is indeed refreshingly different. She’s a country expressionist, a grungy firebrand and a spiritual seeker. And at only 25, she has already packed a full life into just a few years, using fake IDs to get gigs around South Georgia, turning down a college scholarship for a love that burned out just a few months later, sleeping in her car when she arrived in Nashville and then losing her home in an electrical fire. “My dad has always said that the most beautiful and strongest things are forged in the fire,” she says. “Iron is nothing until you work it in a fire. Glass cannot be blown without intense heat. You can’t make anything beautiful or strong without a little heat.”.
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Till There’s Nothing Left’ - Cam
In the middle of the honky-tonk apocalypse, everyone in this bar is making the most of the time they have left. This sensual, cinematic music video was directed by Dano Cerny and shot at the Hitching Post Western Saloon in Portland, TN
“It’s the end of the world and I know a little place in the eye of the storm. Let’s live our last moments dancing together in the neon glow,” says Cam.
Written in Los Angeles by Cam with Hillary Lindsey, Tyler Johnson, and Jeff Bhasker, “Till There’s Nothing Left” is Cam’s first single from her upcoming second album, slated for release in the summer. It’s steeped in the romantic swoon of Eighties synth-pop, but mixed with some sighing pedal steel and Cam’s direct, emotive vocal delivery. In true Cam fashion, it’s also a little defiant of the general trend toward faster songs in country and beyond.
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘So Pretty’ - Jenny Tolman
We love this reflective and heartfelt song from fast-rising young US Country star Jenny Tolman. It’s taken from Jenny’s wonderful debut album ‘There Goes the Neighborhood’ released in July last year.
‘There Goes the Neighborhood’ is a great album by Jenny who was hailed by Sound Opinions as a “storyteller par excellence. A member of a high-class, white trash welcoming committee, an observant woman who sees other people on her own fictitious block through a humorous, surface-scraping veneer”. Jenny conveys her songs with “the sass of Nikki Lane mixed with the clever wordplay of Brandy Clark,” according to Rolling Stone.
Jenny grew up in Nashville, the daughter of a talent buyer who started in music as a member of a barbershop quartet, the Indian River Boys. Interacting as a concert professional with the likes of Garth Brooks, Vince Gill and The Oak Ridge Boys.
Building the album as a cast of characters allowed Jenny to inject pieces of her own personality into each storyline without making it entirely autobiographical. She casts the other women’s eccentricities with stark humour, then takes a deep dive into the dark corners of her own self-doubt.
Photo credit: Katie Krauss
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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Dead Of Night’ - Orville Peck
Our LCM featured track today by Canadian singer-songwriter Orville Peck is a very interesting one. Full of contemporary and varied influences for you to explore. Orville has often been described as a male version of Lana Del Rey. But there is so much depth and richest to Orville’s music. ‘Dead Of Night’ is a haunting, atmospheric track with a Twin Peaks vibe mixed with 90’s pop and Country. He wears a trademark fringed lone ranger mask too, which adds to his mystique. The track is taken from his debut album ‘Pony’ released in March last year via Sub-Pop. It delivers a diverse collection of stories that sing of heartbreak, revenge and the unrelenting tug of the cowboy ethos
Combining the lulling ambience of shoegaze with the iconic melodies and vocal prowess of classic American country music, enigmatic outlaw cowboy Orville Peck, croons love and loss from the badlands of North America.
The resulting sound is one completely his own, taking the listener down dusty rose-colored desert highways, through a world where worn out gamblers, aloof road-dogs and lovesick hustlers drift in and out of his masked gaze. Warm lap steel guitars and echoing drums move through dreamy ballads, campfire lullabies and sometimes frantic buzzsaw tunes, all the while paying homage to his country music roots.
Orville's music has been featured by Nylon magazine, ID mag, Vice, The Needle Drop, as well as numerous Apple Music and Spotify playlists. He has also had magazine features in New York's Hello Mr. and the UK's Notion.
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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Type Of Girl’ - Twinnie
Our next LCM featured track is by one of the new rising stars of UK Country, singer-songwriter and actress Twinnie-Lee Moore. Her new single and video ‘Type of Girl’ is a lot of fun and often ‘tongue in cheek’. It really showcases her many talents, as Twinnie portrays a host of strong female characters and icons such as Marilyn, Shania and Ginger Rogers.
Twinnie is set to release her highly anticipated debut album ‘Hollywood Gypsy’ on April 17th through BMG. This will be backed by a UK tour in March with a London date at Omeara on March 24th and showcase sets at C2C, March 13th-15th.
Twinnie comments “I really hope you enjoy it! This idea has been in my head for two years & It was a dream come true when we were filming to see it come to life. Huge shout out to my whole team who worked so hard, it was a busy day for everyone but they all killed it. Special thank you to our director Chris Turner, my choreographer Mark Jennings, hair and makeup team Luke Pluckrose & Buster Knight, styling David Hawkins. p.s I think Mark Jennings plays the part of the uninterested, bored casting director really well. tbh I would definitely put me on a strong hold/ heavy pencil for the part!! :) “
Named by Rolling Stone as one of the stand-out acts at this year’s Country2Country festival, recently signed to a global major label in 2017 and with acclaim for her extraordinary, storytelling songs snowballing, That Twinnie can sing will come as no surprise to anyone who watched her in West End musicals - We Will Rock You, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Rock Of Ages and Footloose among them - although her gorgeous, gravelly, country-tinged vocals still caught many off guard when she self-released her debut EP ‘Better When I'm Drunk’ in 2019.
At the 2019 British Country Music Association Awards, Twinnie received nominations for Female Vocalist of the Year and UK Song of the Year for "Better When I'm Drunk".
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LCM Song Of The Day: ‘People Gonna Talk’ - Chatham County Line
Playing at Oslo for the AMA UK showcases were the excellent North Carolina-based Chatham Country Line. This is a great live cover version of James Hunter’s ‘People Gonna Talk’ taken from their new eighth studio album ‘Sharing The Covers’ released in April last year via Yep Roc. The video was recorded at the historic Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, North Carolina on October 11, 2019. CCl are John Teer (Mandolin), Dave Wilson (Guitar), Greg Readling (Bass) and Dan Hall (Drums).
The album is a tribute to those whom Chatham County Line hold dear, and a chance for the group to perform modern and traditional classics in the bluegrass-style they're known for best. On the 13-track collection, CCL takes the familiar and adds a touch of originality to create a wholly new and inventive roster of covers by Tom Petty, Alton Delmore, John Lennon, The Louvin Brothers, Beck, James Hunter, and more.