SPECTACULAR NEW AMERICANA VOICE MELANIE BRULÉE CONFIRMS TOUR DATES AS EARLY BUZZ BUILDS FROM WMOT, THE BOOT, NO DEPRESSION

WESTERN ROAD TRIP-THEMED ALBUM ‘FIRES, FLOODS & THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND’ OUT OCT. 19

 

Following her two Americana Fest sets, Melanie Brulée has confirmed a series of tour dates following the release of her new album ‘Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind.’ The album draws parallels between letting go of destructive habits and with a big-sky, widescreen, western landscape in which it was written.

 

The adroit songwriter is earning early buzz from the likes of WMOT-FM Nashville, on which she appeared on Friday, and The Boot, which posted her video for “Whiskey and Whine."

 

Spotify has placed her on its Down Home Country playlist and No Depression says, “Melanie Brulée's new album, Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind, explores the wide open spaces of the Wild West -- and she's got the voice to fill it.”

 

Melanie Brulee Tour Dates:

 

November 6 – New York, NY – Hill Country Live

November 15 – Philadelphia, PA – Philadelpia Folk Song Society

November 16 – Washington, D.C. - Hill Country Live

November 20 – Boston, MA – Atwood’s

POWERFUL NEW AMERICANA VOICE EMERGES AS MELANIE BRULÉE SETS RELEASE DATE FOR ‘FIRES, FLOODS & THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND’

TWO SHOWCASES SET FOR AMERICANAFEST

 

ADDED TO TWO SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS ALREADY

 

Melanie Brulée – a powerful new Americana voice – will release ‘Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind’ on October 19. Inspired by a road trip from Nashville to Las Vegas along Route 66, the music unfolds in widescreen, western textures influenced by Enio Morricone and Quentin Tarantino soundtracks.

 

She will perform twice at AMERICANAFEST:

 

Friday, September 14 – Folk Alliance’s Finest Folk @ 12^th & Porter – 6:10pm (114 12th Ave N.)

Saturday, September 15 - Canadian Blast showcase @ InDo - 12:45pm (632 Fogg St.).

 

Her single “I’ll Get Over You” is out now and has already been added to Spotify’s official Down Home Country and Renegade Folk playlists (shareable link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jikuK6pvTgw

 

The album’s 12 songs are loosely based around the idea of the 12 steps of addiction recovery. It is a tip of the hat to loved ones who’ve gotten sober and those who never did, including her dad. It explores the theme of getting go of habits that are no longer useful. ‘Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind’ kicks off with the evocative “I Will,” featuring a western motif and trumpets and would fit on a playlist with Johnny and June’s “Ring of Fire.” “I’ll Get Over You” wrestles with the power of memory but also how to coexist with it. “Pretty Wasteland” was written directly for Brulée’s good friend, who was then newly sober. The hard-driving “Whiskey and Whine” tackles the balance of the past and present while the tender, fingerpicked “Tennessee Years” adds gratitude to love. “Oklahoma Rain” is a character sketch of a roadside breakdown. “We Get Lost” looks to the future with hope and reticence in equal measure.

 

While she grew up in Canada, Brulée has also lived in France and Australia. She currently lives in Toronto but spends a lot of time songwriting in Nashville. She’s already opened for Kathleen Edwards; won a Stingray Music Rising Star Award in Canada; and joined Chicago’s Strategic Touring for US booking.

 

‘Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind’ Track Listing

 

1. I Will 2:48

2. I’ll Get Over You 3:32

3. Pretty Wasteland 4:17

4. Can’t Rely on Rain 3:33

5. Whiskey & Whine 3:46

6. Will You Love Me Tomorrow 4:32

7. Tennessee Years 3:12

8. Weak 3:30

9. Oklahoma Rain 4:02

10. Bust It Up & Fix It 4:11

11. We Get Lost 4:21

12. I Will (reprise) 1:27

Melanie Brulée artwork

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Credit: Emma Lee

Credit: Emma Lee

Credit: Emma Lee

Credit: Emma Lee

TRIUMPH OUT OF TRAGEDY FOR MARK EDGAR STUART

MADJACK RECORDS TO RELEASE TOP MEMPHIS SONGWRITER’S ‘MAD AT LOVE’ OCT. 12

 

“I CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR HIS LATEST ALBUM, MAD AT LOVE.” – GARDEN & GUN MAGAZINE

 

In a one-year span, top Memphis bassist-cum-songwriter Mark Edgar Stuart was diagnosed with lymphoma and lost his father to a heart attack. The combination shook up his world. While convalescing from chemotherapy, he started fingerpicking and working on his singing, neither ever focuses for Stuart, who was long one of Memphis’ first-call bassists, having played with Cory Branan (including on the Late Show with David Letterman) and Jack Oblivian (on ‘Rat City’), among others. He met Levon Helm on Beale Street while playing and the two talked about their mutual Arkanasas origins; Mark used Levon as an inspiration to beat cancer (the latter was in remission at the time). And Mark did. But his father passed away, he found songwriting as the outlet which his grief took. Madjack Records will release ‘Mad At Love,’ Stuart’s third and most mature album, on October 12, 2018.

‘Mad At Love’ tackles tough subjects, often couples in trouble. Special guests include Amy Lavere, Liz Brasher, and Al Gamble (of St. Paul & The Broken Bones) on the album, which was produced by Stuart and Fat Possum’s Bruce Watson.

 

Stuart’s first two albums each earned reviews as some of the best of Memphis. Memphis Commercial Appeal said, “One of the city’s best songwriters… Subtly and Expertly crafted.” Memphis Flyer wrote, “One of this city's most vital music-makers… Both 2013's Blues for Lou and last year's Trinity My Dear were revelatory.” No Depression called him a “great raconteur.” He appeared on PBS’ national television show Sun Studio Sessions.

 

Befitting the comparisons to Todd Snider and Robbie Fulks, Stuart’s songs take on multiple meanings over time. ‘Mad At Love’ turns out to be about a widow’s grief but her lack of regret; “Missing You Everyday” is about losing a brother in Afghanistan but pivots on a moment when, not long after his death, the brother’s bass fell and shattered of its own accord; and “Barren Love” explores couples staying together for the sake of a child. “Until We Came Unglued” sees the impact of the death of a beloved pet on a relationship. Stuart says, “I wrote ‘I’ll Be Me’ for my father-in-law or anyone who is struggling with addiction. He's pleading with his loved ones (his daughter/ my wife) that he's going to get better and walk a straight path.  He's no longer going to be someone she doesn't know anymore.”

 

Two-thousand-eighteen marks Madjack Records’ 20^th anniversary. The storied label has released albums by Cory Branan, Lucero, Susan Marshall, and many others.

 

Stuart also contributed bass to Alvin Youngblood Hart, John Paul Keith & The 145s, Jim Mize, Jimbo Mathus, and on sessions for GRAMMY-winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, John Prine).

 

Mark Edgar Stuart Tour Dates

 

September 16 – Millington, TN– The Shelby Forrest General Store

September 18 – Oklahoma City, OK – Blue Note Lounge

September 21 – Red River, MN – Red River Folk Festival

September 28 – Little Rock, AR – South On Main

September 30 – Memphis, TN – Railgarten

October 20 – Memphis, TN – Railgarten (Madjack Records 20^th anniversary show)

Melanie Brulee "I'll Get Over You"

Mark Edgar Stuart artwork

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Credit: Johnathan Thomason

Credit: Johnathan Thomason

Credit: Johnathan Thomason

Credit: Johnathan Thomason

Amy McCarley "High Wire" video featuring Kenny Vaughan

Kevin Gordon 2018 artwork

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All photos credit Jacob Blickenstaff

Kevin Gordon 2018 bio

Kevin Gordon’s Louisiana is a strange place. In his songs, it’s a place where restless teens road trip to where the highway dead-ends at the Gulf of Mexico; a place where prisoners who are in for life compete in a rodeo in front of spectators; where a man can get lost in the humid afternoon and where religion may not signify hope; where the KKK greets a high school marching band and its African-American teacher along a parade route; where a post-ZZ Top show hang out outside a McDonald’s reveals a hidden gun; where a Pontiac GTO gets stolen, ends up in a lake, and punishment takes precedence over remuneration; where half-Comanche folksinger Brownie Ford can escape death and proffer advice on staying real and free; where Jimmy Reed is the true king of rock & roll; and where rivers, never far away, carry secrets behind levees.

The kicker? All of these songs are based on true stories. Kevin Gordon has been exploring Louisiana for twenty years now, on the eve of the release of his powerful new album Tilt & Shine, out July 27, 2018 on Crowville Media. “One of the things I like about it and am mystified by is that what passes for normal in Louisiana would not make the grade elsewhere,” Gordon says. He continues, “It’s only 4 ½ or 5 hours from Monroe,where I grew up,to New Orleans; the influence of south Louisiana, the Acadian culture, the diverse influences of New Orleans, all that stuff kind of floats around the state.” Gordon’s MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop allows him to capture it with a degree of precision. As the New York Times put it in its headline of a feature on Kevin, “A Musician Or A Poet? Yes to Both.” Lucinda Williams said, "He’s writing songs that are like short stories" and noted music journalist Peter Guralnick has said, "Think of John Lee Hooker tied to the hard, imagistic poetry of William Carlos Williams, and you get a little bit of the picture." With all these accolades, it’s no wonder that Gordon’s songs have been covered by the likes of Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Irma Thomas, The Hard Working Americans (featuring Todd Snider), Ronnie Hawkins, Sonny Burgess, and Southside Johnny.

Echoing Faulkner’s famous line that “the past is never dead; it’s not even past,” Kevin declares, “There’s something about that bouncing back and forth between present tense and past tense that provides a powerful energy to work from. There are so many stories in Monroe and it’s a place that nobody pays attention to. It’s still got a real provincial thing about it that is intriguing because you feel like not everything’s been figured out. For me, you can feel the arc of time passing: you can drive by the house you lived in when you were 12; you remember things that happened there. I’m captivated by the power of strong memories—those films that run continuously in your mind, if you let ‘em.”

Before you even hear Kevin Gordon’s vivid lyrics, you start feeling the sound of that ’56 Gibson ES-125 tuned down to low, open D, with the tremolo flowing like a river, and an unstoppable groove distilled from swamp blues and Sun Records. “It inevitably provides weird sounds and chords that I would not have figured out on my own,” Gordon says. “You’re just sitting there playing and listening until something accidental sounds interesting.” It’s also a sound that comes of the four-album partnership with producer Joe McMahan (Patrick Sweany, McCrary Sisters, Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer) , who says, "It still blows my mind how after all these years he continues to bring songs to the table that are as good or better than anything he has written in the past. When the bar is raised to such a high level by songs like these, it mandates that all of us involved demand the highest level from ourselves. I’m very fortunate to be involved.”

Coming of age in fits and starts is a theme to which Gordon has returned several times and he finds a new story here in the unsettling, insistent groove of “Fire at the End of the World,” a tale of friends who ran off with their parents’ car and a stash of drugs to see the point where the highway ends and the backwaters of the Gulf of Mexico begin. “Saint on a Chain” ranks up there with some of the best songwriting around, according to Paste Magazine’s Geoffrey Himes, who witnessed a live version at Americana Fest. It also came out of one of Kevin’s visits to Monroe, talking with an old friend. “We were sitting in his truck one time. He was playing a Springsteen record for me and he was under the influence of something pharmaceutical,” he remembers. Gordon spent years perfecting the song, saying, “I started thinking about the St. Christopher’s medal he wore, and ended up reading the story of how Jesus appeared as a child to the saint, as Christopher was helping people cross a flooded river. The Ouachita River runs between Monroe and West Monroe, and like a lot of rivers, it isn’t exactly crystal clear.” The song’s finale could see the character about to run his car off the road in a fit of self-destruction or perhaps on the verge of redemption.

These same themes play out in a more humorous fashion on rocking album closer “Get It Together” aka “Shit Together.” Sardonically, Gordon says, “It’s easier to talk about yourself when you’re not using the first person point of view. This is a song about what seems to be a constant battle of adulthood—negotiating that gap between knowing what you need to do, and actually doing it.” “Get It Together” also reminds one that Kevin’s no folksinger, launching into a kicking rock and roll groove. Similarly, “Right On Time” rips out of the gate, poking fun at the notion that things happen when they’re supposed to but also accepting the strangeness of the rock & roll road and its little victories.

One of the most powerful songs on the album, “One Road Out (Angola Rodeo Blues)” kicks off with a wicked John Lee Hooker-esque guitar line. Kevin says, “Joe handed me [Delta bluesman] Son Thomas’ fake Strat and I plugged it into one of his little amps and it sounded like Satan coming up from the sewer.” The sound evokes the setting, the infamous Angola State Penitentiary (one-time home to Lead Belly, bluesman Robert Pete Williams, and setting of the recent documentary “Serving Life”), where prisoners engage in a rodeo and a craft fair for a public audience. He adds, “It’s hard to watch, heartbreaking, even though those guys look forward to it.” With Tilt & Shine, Kevin Gordon takes the bitter with the sweet. His eye for a great story and ear for a key turn of phrase makes his songwriting a masterclass in craft, and an unflinchingly honest look at life in Louisiana.

Kevin Gordon short bio

Kevin Gordon’s Louisiana is a strange place. It’s a place where restless teens road trip to where the highway dead-ends at the Gulf of Mexico; a place where prisoners who are in for life compete in a rodeo while the town watches; where a character can get lost in the humid afternoon and where religion may not signify hope; and where rivers, never far away, carry secrets behind levees. “One of the things I like about it and am mystified by is that what passes for normal in Louisiana would not make the grade elsewhere,” he says.

The kicker? All of these postcards are based on true stories. It’s a place that he’s been exploring for twenty years now, on the eve of the release of his astonishing new album ‘Tilt & Shine’ on Crowville Media. It is work that has earned him fans like noted author and Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick; New West Records artist Buddy Miller; journalist, songwriter, and Country Music Hall of Fame staffer Peter Cooper; Todd Snider; head of the Americana Music Association Jed Hilly; and Lucinda Williams, with whom he dueted on the song “Down To The Well” (which was featured prominently on an Oxford American compilation).

Before you even hear his vivid lyrics, you start feeling the sound of that ’56 Gibson ES-125 tuned down to open D, often with the tremolo flowing like a river, and an unstoppable groove distilled from swamp blues and Sun Records. His MFA from the Iowa Poetry Writers’ Workshop allows him to capture it with a degree of precision. As the New York Times put it in its headline of a feature on Kevin, “A Musican Or A Poet? Yes to Both.”

Kevin sums it up, “There are so many stories in north Louisiana and it’s a place that nobody pays attention to. For me, you can feel the arc of time passing. I’m captivated by the power of strong memories—those films that run continuously in your mind, if you let ‘em.” With ‘Tilt & Shine,’ those movies translate into rock and roll poetry.

SONGWRITING LEGEND ERIC ANDERSEN PLOTS GRAMMY MUSEUM Q&A AND PERFORMANCE MAY 3, MCCABE’S GUITAR SHOP SHOW MAY 5

‘THE ESSENTIAL ERIC ANDERSEN’ 2CD SET OUT FRIDAY ON SONY LEGACY / REAL GONE

Songwriting legend Eric Andersen, whose first career retrospective, the 2CD ‘The Essential Eric Andersen,’ comes out this Friday on Sony Legacy / Real Gone, will appear in a Q&A with Executive Director Scott Goldman and short set at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles on May 3 and perform a full set at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica on May 5. Early buzz on ‘The Essential Eric Andersen’ has Brooklyn Vegan lauding his “impressive career” in posting “great song” “Violets of Dawn” and Pop Matters praising his “illustrious career.”

The NY Times has said, “Impressive… Very few songwriters have built a body of work as consistently strong as Mr. Andersen's.”

Bob Dylan said, “Eric Andersen is a great ballad singer and writer.”

Performers joining Andersen on the compilation include Joni Mitchell, David Bromberg, Leon Russell, Joan Baez, Richard Thompson, Rick Danko, and Lou Reed. Andersen and the late Phil Ochs duet on “Plains of Nebrasky-o.” Comprehensive liner notes by the songwriter himself and Rolling Stone and NY Times writer and Lou Reed biographer Anthony DeCurtis accompany the compilation. A press copy of the liner notes is here: http://bit.ly/2D5k63o

Marie/Lepanto clips

NY Times playlist item (Dec 22, 2017)

No Depression premiere (Dec 6, 2017)

HearYa review (January 29, 2018)

Bitter Southerner album stream (January 25, 2018)

No Depression album review (January 25, 2018)

Paste Magazine session (April 17, 2018)

WILL JOHNSON (OF CENTRO-MATIC, ETC.) AND JUSTIN PETER KINKEL-SCHUSTER (OF WATER LIARS) FORM NEW BAND MARIE/LEPANTO, TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM ‘TENKILLER’ ON BIG LEGAL MESS (FAT POSSUM) ON JANUARY 26

FIRST TRACK PREMIERED VIA NO DEPRESSION: http://nodepression.com/article/will-johnson-and-justin-peter-kinkel-shuster-premiere-new-track-inverness

NATIONAL TOUR DATES SUPPORTING PEDRO THE LION ON SALE TOMORROW

Will Johnson (of Centro-Matic, New Multitudes, South San Gabriel) and Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster (of Water Liars) have collaborated to form “super duo” (No Depression) Marie/Lepanto and will release their debut album ‘Tenkiller’ on January 26 on Big Legal Mess (Fat Possum imprint). No Depression has premiered crunchy first single “Inverness,” praising the band’s “rich vocal harmonies… and careful attention to melody”: http://nodepression.com/article/will-johnson-and-justin-peter-kinkel-shuster-premiere-new-track-inverness

Tickets for a 2018 tour supporting Pedro the Lion go on sale tomorrow.

In the sunken lands of Arkansas along I-55, there’s a road sign that directs you to a pair of tiny, hardscrabble towns in the Delta. It reads: Marie/Lepanto and resides roughly between where each artist grew up: Justin in Arkansas and Will in Missouri. Alternating between lofi folk and distorted indie rock, ‘Tenkiller’ finds their two voices shadowing one another, with Johnson’s battered vocals and Kinkel-Schuster’s wavering tenor complementing one another. Many of the songs then funnel into expansive instrumental breaks. “Inverness” segues into the fingerpicking, creaky “Rest Be Mine.” The widescreen waltz “High Desert” coexists with the ghostly title track, named for a lake in Oklahoma and inspired by Justin’s reading the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Long mutual admirers, Johnson and Kinkel-Schuster co-headlined a living room tour, only sparking the idea of working directly together when they toured Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis with producer Jeff Powell (Big Star, The Afghan Whigs). Memphis was then earest big city for both artists growing up.

Johnson has released some seventeen albums in his two-decade indie rock career, including as frontman of Centro-Matic and South San Gabriel, member of New Multitudes (with Jay Farrar and Jim James), as Molina and Johnson (with Jason Molina), as official member of Monsters of Folk (with James, Conor Oberst and M. Ward), with Overseas (with David Bazan), and with the Undertow Orchestra (with Bazan, Mark Eitzel, and Vic Chestnutt). NPR has praised Centro-Matic's "superb rock records" and Johnson's own "great images" and "superb songwriting."

Julien Baker listed Kinkel-Schuster’s 2016 solo album among her top ten albums of the year. The NY Times said that Kinkel-Schuster’s prior band Water Liars’ "dark, lonely roots-minded indie rock is affecting, all the more for its sparseness." NPR called the band "a low-key triumph... prone to fits of stark gorgeousness" and Consequence of Sound said, "Kinkel-Shuster's painted howl will stop you in your tracks."

Marie/Lepanto Tour Dates With Pedro The Lion

February 8 - St Louis, MO – Old Rock House
February 9 - Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
February 10 - Tulsa, OK – The Vanguard
February 12 - Dallas, TX – Trees
February 13 - Austin, TX – Mohawk
February 14 - Houston, TX – Rockefeller’s
February 16 - New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jack’s
February 17 - Birmingham, AL – Saturn
February 18 - Gainesville, FL – High Dive
February 19 - Orlando, FL – The Social
February 21 - Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
February 22 - Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
February 23 - Nashville, TN – Exit/In

“INDELIBLE” (ABC NEWS) KRIS DELMHORST ALBUM ‘THE WILD’ ARRIVES AS SECOND LEG OF TOUR WITH JEFFREY FOUCAULT KICKS OFF TOMORROW

Kris Delmhorst’s stunning new album ‘The Wild’ is capturing attention and reverence among critics. ‘The Wild’ debuted at #9 on the NACC folk chart. She’s also taped a session for NPR’s Folk Alley. She and Jeffrey Foucault (her husband and co-producer/multi-instrumentalist on ‘The Wild’) kick off the second leg of their tour together. It’s her first tour collaborating with her husband Foucault and both artists are on stage the entire time, first during his set with a full, then a series of duets as a duo, and finally her headlining set with the band again.

 

“All The Way Around” music video here

 

"Indelible[,] enveloping [, and] hypnotizing... While this is one of Delmhorst's most gently-executed albums, her gifts as a writer and singer are still on display. "

- Allan Raible, ABC News.com, September 25, 2017

 

“A constant search — for love, for inspiration and for one’s own identity.”

- Amy McCarthy, The Boot, August 24, 2017

 

“Literate, allusive [atop] a marvelous, tense groove that holds throughout, no matter the sonic particulars of individual songs.”

- Stuart Munro, The Boston Globe, October 19, 2017

 

“Affecting.”

- Chris Steffen, All Music, September 21, 2017

 

“Captivating.”

- Jonathan Frahm, Pop Matters, October 13, 2017

 

“Kris Delmhorst… has always had the ability to play emotional resonance like an instrument, with an unparalleled command of scale and perspective. She can create an emotional space in a song as small as a firefly, or as large and devastating as a hurricane… She demonstrates a mastery of that narrative tool, and the result is an album that smolders slow and hot… Blistering honesty [accompanied by] lushness in the music.”

- Victor Infante, Worcester Telegram, October 26, 2017, full review here

 

“Shivery poignancy… haunting atmospheres and emotional rivers.”

- Bliss Bowen, Pasadena Weekly, September 21, 2017

 

“The Wild casts a shadowy sense of reflection.”

- Paul Robicheau, Improper Bostonian, October 13, 2017

 

“Unique and unforgettable.”

- Next Women of Country, August 11, 2017

 

Kris Delmhorst/Jeffrey Foucault Tour

 

November 7 - Arcata Players Theater – Arcata, CA

November 8 - Palms Playhouse – Winters, CA

November 9 - Freight & Salvage – Berkeley, CA

November 10 - Don Quixotes – Felton, CA

November 11-  McCabe’s - Santa Monica, CA

November 12 – Soho - Santa Barbara, CA

December 1 – The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI

December 2 - Seven Steps Up - Spring Lake, MI

December 3 - City Winery - Chicago, IL

December 5 - CSPS - Cedar Rapids, IA

December 7 - Cedar Cultural Center - Minneapolis, MN

December 8 - Stoughton Opera House - Stoughton, WI (Madison area)

December 9 - Collectivo - Milwaukee, WI

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Kris Delmhorst "All The Way Around" music video

Statement from the Ponderosa Stomp in regards to Tropical Storm Nate

The Ponderosa Stomp’s Friday concert will continue as scheduled (lineup and timing below). In accordance with Mayor Landrieu’s mandatory 6pm curfew, Saturday’s concert has been cancelled.

Any Saturday tickets will be redeemable for Friday night entrance as well. Those who hold a ticket for both nights may use their passes on Friday night to bring two people to the show instead of one person for two nights (and will not receive refunds, if they do so); put simply, a two-night ticket for one person can now be used as a Friday ticket for two people.

We will provide Saturday ticket refunds and will have specifics on that as soon as possible. Two-night ticket holders will be provided a half refund. Friday night tickets will also be available at the door. Ticketmaster refunds will be handled by Ticketmaster.

The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation appreciates its fans, panelists, and artists, especially those who traveled long distances to get here.

Friday night schedule

7:20 - 7:50 Billy Boy Arnold

7:55 - 8:30 Swamp Pop Revue featuring T.K Hulin & G.G. Shinn

8:40 - 9:00 Warren Storm

9:00 - 9:30 Willie West

9:30 - 10:00 Winfield Parker

10:10 - 10:40 Barbara Lynn

10:40 - 11:10 Archie Bell

11:10 - 11:40 Roy Head

11:50 - 12:30 am Doug Kershaw

12:40 - 1:40 Roky Erickson plays the 13th Floor Elevators

1:50 - 2:30 The Gories

Fans with other questions can contact info@ponderosasastomp.com and we will respond following Friday night’s concert.

SUSAN CATTANEO 2CD SET ‘THE HAMMER & THE HEART’ DEBUTS AT #1 ON BILLBOARD HEATSEEKERS NORTHEAST CHART & #5 ON THE FOLK DJ-L CHART

WFUV SESSION AIRS & MOJO RAVES

Susan Cattaneo’s “ambitious” (WFUV) double album ‘The Hammer & The
Heart’ debuted at #1 on the Billboard Northeast Heatseekers chart,
#5 on the Folk DJ-L chart nationally, and at #9 on the NACC radio chart. In addition, WFUV aired an
interview and session with her on Sunday. Hear it here: http://www.wfuv.org/content/susan-cattaneo-2017

The album, which stretches from alt.country and rock & roll to folk
and honky tonk, has also earned plaudits from MOJO Magazine, Pop
Matters, Maverick, Elmore, Glide, and The Boot. Special guests on the
album include The Bottle Rockets, Bill Kirchen, Duke Levine, Mark
Erelli, and The Boxcar Lilles (of which Cattaneo is also a member).
In addition to her own musical career, Cattaneo also teaches
songwriting at Berklee College of Music.

Upcoming Susan Cattaneo Performance:

October 13 – Plymouth, MA – The Spire Center for the Performing Arts

NICK LOSS-EATON MEDIA AT AMERICANA FEST: FAT POSSUM SOUL MAN DON BRYANT, DIVINE HARMONIES OF APPLEWOOD ROAD, THE “AMAZING” (JIM LAUDERDALE) KEVIN GORDON

In chronological order:

 

Tuesday – 7:50pm - Kevin Gordon – The Family Wash (626 Main St #A)

Rolling Stone says, "Dude's a juke-joint professor emeritus.” Kevin Gordon, Louisiana-born songwriter who’s earned raves from media, musicals peers, and fans in equal measure, released his latest, ‘Long Gone Time’ to critical praise from American Songwriter, Pop Matters, Offbeat, & others. He is currently recording a 2018 release. Hitting #26 on the Americana Radio Chart, the album also attracted the attention of NPR’s World Cafe and Folk Alley; Gordon performed live as a featured guest on both programs. Praised by NPR, The NY Times, & USA Today, Kevin Gordon’s songs have been covered by everyone from Keith Richards and Levon Helm to Irma Thomas and Todd Snider: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/arts/music/kevin-gordon-releases-gloryland-his-first-album-since-2005.html

 

 

Tuesday – 8:30pm – Applewood Road – Radio Café (4150 Gallatin Pike)

On Applewood Road, Paste Magazine was “impressed me with their close harmonies” while No Depression said, “lovely… near perfect folk album… I was mesmerized.” Crosby, Stills & Nash; Simon & Garfunkel; The Everly Brothers; The Civil Wars; Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: some bands have voices that were just meant to sing together. Applewood Road is one of those bands. Applewood Road is Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace: http://www.thebluegrasssituation.com/read/stream-applewood-road-applewood-road

 

Wednesday –11:30am – Don Bryant on Southern Stream Panel – Country Music Hall of Fame and Music, Ford Theater (222 5^th Avenue S) and available to live stream at http://countrymusichalloffame.org/streaming

Americana music, like all American music, is fundamentally eclectic, born of the myriad cultural crossings that form the basis of our complex national history. Within every country song is a blues root and a soul heart; every folk ballad has traveled within a diaspora that may have touched the Caribbean, Mexico, or the Native American West. This songwriters round brings together four artists whose music reflects very different family legacies and life experiences, from Southern soul to Latin-tinged country to African-diaspora folk. Their songs and stories form a portrait of Americana music that reflects the true and varied foundation of Americana music. Moderated by Ann Powers of NPR Music, the program will feature performances and conversation from Don Bryant, Yola Carter, Raul Malo, and Joan Osborne.

 

Friday – 10:15pm - Kevin Gordon – Douglas Corner (2106 8^th Ave S)

 

Saturday – 7pm - Kevin Gordon – Bobby’s Idle Hour (1028 16^th Ave S)

 

Saturday – 9pm - Don Bryant & The Bo-Keys – 12^th & Porter (114 12^th Ave N)

 

 

The Fat Possum “Soul Survivor” and “I Can’t Stand The Rain” songwriter Don Bryant is fresh from a packed house, standing ovation performance at Lincoln Center Out of Doors with Lincoln Center’s Jill Sternheimer calling him “incredible” and a subsequent European tour. His comeback album ‘Don’t Give Up On Love’ has earned raves this year from NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Paste, UNCUT, MOJO, and All Music: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-cant-stand-the-rain-writer-don-bryants-return-w478767

Jake La Botz "Feel No Pain" music video

SUSAN CATTANEO EARNING EARLY PLAUDITS FROM MOJO, POP MATTERS, & BEYOND FOR AMBITIOUS DOUBLE ALBUM ‘THE HAMMER & THE HEART,’ OUT THIS WEEK ON JERSEY GIRL MUSIC

CATTANEO TO PERFORM ON JOHN PLATT’S WFUV ON YOUR RADAR CONCERT
SEPTEMBER 12 AT ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL, STAGE 3 IN NYC

Susan Cattaneo’s ambitious double album ‘The Hammer & The Heart’ comes
out this Friday to plaudits from outlets as varied as MOJO and Pop
Matters. The Berklee College of Music songwriting professor stretches
out artistically on an album that spans honky tonk, Americana, rock &
roll, and folk music and features special guests The Bottle Rockets,
Bill Kirchen, Mark Erelli, Duke Levine, and The Boxcar Lillies (with
whom Susan also plays).

Susan will perform as part of WFUV’s On Your Radar series via John
Platt at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3 on September 12, 2017.

"In the Grooves" music video (OK to share): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYWN4MxqXLU

Here’s what we’re reading:

“Country rocking celebration.”
- MOJO, September, 2017

“Riveting.”
- Jonathan Frahm, Pop Matters, July 31, 2017

“Truly spectacular… 5 stars… She nails it – and how… an excellent
double album and could even become a beacon of inspiration for future
country rock artists should they choose to make the bold step… the
album soon mesermizes you with its slick compositions, relentless
grooves, and brilliant story-telling… this is certainly one for the
collection.”
- Christian Brown, Maverick Magazine (UK), September, 2017

"Cattaneo has previously been nominated for a number of awards in the
independent music category and it would come as no surprise if she
actually snags one with this top-notch offering... one thing shines
clearly: her purposeful, colorful lyrical strength coupled with a
percussive, driving rhythmic style and delivery."
- Iain Patience, Elmore Magazine, August 21, 2017

"Special... powerful vocals and her vivid lyrical storytelling...
Cattaneo is an authority when it comes to songwriting... her most
important musical endeavor to date... this is an album that truly
captures the full spectrum of Cattaneo’s talent. The music itself is
at times reminiscent of her peers such as Bonnie Raitt, Patty Griffin,
Carole King and Emmylou Harris... Cattaneo is truly an artist’s
artist."
- Glide Magazine, August 10, 2017

“A strong dose of twang… everything from barn-burning rockers to heart
wrenching ballads.”
- Susan Hubbard, Mother Church Pew, August 21, 2017