FTB NEWS
FTB podcast #163 features the new album by NANCI GRIFFITH called Intersection.  Also new music from LUKAS NELSON,  MARVIN ENTZIONI and WRINKLE NECK MULES.... LEVON HELM dies of cancer... Rest in Peace, EARL SCRUGGS. STEVE MARTIN wrote a wonderful piece for The New Yorker.... NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE reunite for Americana... more news

 
LATEST CD REVIEWS

JD McPHERSON - Signs & Signifiers

ANAIS MITCHELL - Young Man in America

LUCERO - Women & Work

DARRELL SCOTT - Long Ride Home

DAVE McGRAW & MANDY FER - Seed Of A Pine

NIKKI LANE - Walk of Shame

FIRST AID KIT - The Lion's Roar

MARK W. LENNON - Home of the Wheel

MIKE DOWLING - Eclectricity

JOHN HOWIE JR & THE ROSEWOOD BLUFF - Leavin' Yesterday

THE REFUGEES - Three

THE JAMES LOW WESTERN FRONT - Whiskey Farmer

DAVID LaFLEUR - Them Bones...

JONATHAN JETER & THE REVELATORS - Late to my Own Funeral

ROBERT EARL KEEN - Ready For Confetti

MICHAEL JOHNATHON - Front Porch

Various Artists - This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark

JOE CRAVEN TRIO - All Four One

ROB ICKES - Road Song

LYDIA LOVELESS - Indestructible Machine

DONAL HINELY - The Famous Rocket Cage

BLUE HIGHWAY - Sounds of Home

T JARROD BONTA - White Lines

THE BOTTLE ROCKETS - Not So Loud

KRIS DELMHORST - Cars

CAM PENNER - Gypsy Summer

GARY NICHOLSON - Texas Songbook

JOY KILLS SORROW - This Unknown Science

ROD PICOTT - Welding Burns

EILEN JEWELL - Queen of the Minor Key

LAURA CANTRELL - Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music

GILLIAN WELCH - The Harrow & The Harvest

BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS - Kings & Queens


 


New releases for May 15th... WILLIE NELSON - Heroes, MATT HARLAN - Bow and Be Simple, ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE SADIES - Night & Day, BILL EVANS - In Good Company, NRBQ - We Travel The Spaceways ....

Also new... PAUL THORN - What the Hell Is Goin On?, SARA WATKINS - Sun Midnight Sun, JOHN FULLBRIGHT - From the Ground Up , TODD SNIDER -
Time As We Know It: Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker, CHELLE ROSE - Ghost of Browder Holler, NORAH JONES - Little Broken Hearts, ANDERS OSBORNE - Black Eye Galaxy, MARTY STUART - Nashville 1: Tear the Woodpile Down, RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM - Some Bright Morning
...

Coming soon... SONNY LANDRATH, LEFTOVER SALMON, TEDESKI TRUCKS BAND, CORY BRANAN, THE BROTHERS COMATOSE, LAKE STREET DIVE, NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE, SHAWN COLVIN ...more new releases. There is now a Americican Boogie with more detailed new CD releases & comments.


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THE WANDERING
gathers five artists from Memphis and Mississippi and features the string work of Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) and a quartet of distinctive female voices— Shannon McNally, Amy LaVere, Valerie June, and Sharde Thomas. Order Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here from Amazon.

The Freight Train Boogie is dedicated to Americana Music: which includes the edgier country & folk singers, hillbilly twang, some bluegrass, blues and rock. We place a special emphasis on "Alt.Country", Roots Rock and many small label and independent releases. We love Country music, as long as it's "real" Country.

Americana music is influenced by elements of rock, country, blues and folk. Many of the more established artists you've probably already heard of: Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Gram Parsons, sometimes Neil Young, Wilco or Lucinda Williams. Many people come to this music after feeling disconnected from rock or country that's heard on commercial radio. Perhaps the best way to illustrate what Americana music is, is to list a hundred or so Essential Freight Train Boogie Artists.

The Reviews section is where we write about new CD releases, and there's a huge archive of past reviews. The FTB News is mostly links to current Roots music articles and information on the web and in other media, including info on upcoming CD releases. The Links section is of course, links to other good, interesting or useful websites, although it's a little out of date. FTB Editor Bill Frater also does a biweekly radio show on KRCB-FM in Sonoma County, California.

 




FTB podcast #164 is a "One-Shot" show featuring new music from THE INFAMOUS STRINGBUSTERSTIM CARROLL, THE MASTERSONS and THE WACO BROTHERS & PAUL BURCH and more. Here's the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here's the direct link to listen now!  Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss.



New Releases this week...

JP HARRIS AND THE TOUGH CHOICES
I’ll Keep Calling  (Cow Island
)

In July of 2011, JP went into Joel Savoy's Studio Savoire Faire in Eunice, Louisiana with the rhythm section from the Red Stick Ramblers (Eric Fey on bass and Glenn Fields on drums) along with Asa Brosius on steel guitar and Chris Hartway (the Dixons and the Defibulators) on guitar and recorded what will likely be, one of the best real country albums of the year. Only 29 years old, JP wrote all twelve songs on the album and sings them in a voice that seems beyond his years.

WILLIE NELSON
Heroes  (Sony Legacy)

Scheduled for release on May 15th, just in time for Willie's 79th birthday, the songs take on a reflective, emotional tone and move from heartfelt (a stunning rendition of Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe") to humor (on "Roll Me Up" with guest vocalist Snoop Dogg). Other guest vocalists on the album include Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Jamey Johnston, Billy Joe Shaver and Sheryl Crow. Sons Lukas and Micah Nelson also feature prominently, making this a real family affair.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY
Storm & Grace
(Universal Republic) 

The Memphis-born Presley reclaims those roots on her new album, an Americana-inspired showcase for her songwriting talent and smoldering alto voice. Produced with elegant restraint by T Bone Burnett.  “When Lisa Marie’s songs arrived, I was curious,” Burnett says. “I wondered what the daughter of an American revolutionary music artist had to say. What I heard was honest, raw, unaffected, and soulful. I thought her father would be proud of her. The more I listened to the songs, the deeper an artist I found her to be. Listening beyond the media static, Lisa Marie Presley is a Southern American folk music artist of great value.”

Also new this week...

BILL EVANS - In Good Company (Native and Fine)
MATT HARLAN - Bow and Be Simple (Berkalin)
THE HOBART BROTHERS WITH LIL' SIS HOBART - At Least We Have Each Other (Freedom)
NRBQ - We Travel The Spaceways  (Clang!)
ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE SADIES - Night & Day (Yep Roc)

Coming out soon...  SONNY LANDRETH, LEFTOVER SALMON, TEDESKI TRUCKS BAND, CORY BRANAN, THE BROTHERS COMATOSE, LAKE STREET DIVE, NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE, SHAWN COLVIN ...  more new releases

 

New Releases last week...

 

O'BRIEN PARTY OF SEVEN
Reincarnation: The Songs Of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies)

Family bands have had a long tradition in bluegrass and country music, from the Carters to the Gibson Brothers. Now you can add the O’Briens to this prestigious list. O’Brien Party of 7 brings together the families of those talented siblings Tim and Mollie O’Brien; however, their family band - true to Tim and Mollie’s eclectic respective careers - follows traditions while also being something distinctive. Tim and Mollie had been talking about doing a musical project with their combined families for a while. However, it wasn’t until a family gathering a couple years back that the idea of doing a Roger Miller tune arose and Mollie suggested that they do an entire album of Miller songs. Everyone thought it was great idea – and so Reincarnation was born.

PAUL THORN
What the Hell Is Goin On? (Perpetual Obscurity)

Paul Thorn tries something fun and different: covering songs he loves by other songwriters. "I wanted to take a break from myself, do something different, and just have fun." It's an album of covers, but it's also a Paul Thorn album through and through. Tune in Tuesday for a special webcast in which Paul plays and discusses tracks from his new album What The Hell Is Goin' On? and you can join in the conversation via Twitter and online chat. This all takes place on the Stageit website on release day, May 8th, at 7:00p CDT.

SARA WATKINS
Sun Midnight Sun (Nonesuch)

Like whoever you want, but this gal is probably the best artist working today in acoustic based music. Her mastery of the violin and soothing vocals are a throwback to a time when all you needed was good music and the masses would eventually find you. Today though it’s no sure thing just because you’re talented. This is only her second album since Nickel Creek has been on hiatus so there’s plenty of time for you to catch up with her. One of the best of the year so far. (Village Records)


 

 

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