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Along with his raspy, almost spoken phrase vocal style and his literate, poignant, and carefully observed songs that grapple using the beauties, complexities, and little tragedies of the world, Sam Baker has very much in keeping with other Texan songwriters like Robert Earl Keen, James McMurtry, Townes Van Zandt, and …

Vocalist and songwriter Lauren Shera offers said, “Somebody once described my music while ‘California folk’ and Personally i think that’s extremely accurate.” While Shera was created in NY, her music will indeed possess a audio and believe that harkens towards the Golden Condition, both in the extra but heartfelt design …

Regardless of the seemingly obvious link with the Elton John classic from Madman Over the Water (and newer Almost Famous fame), Tiny Dancers leader David Kay claims in interviews which the young quintet from West Yorkshire is in fact named after a cabal of wicked dwarves in Roger Corman’s 1964 …

Jason Eady is a charting Texas-based nation and Americana vocalist and songwriter. He was created outside Jackson, Mississippi in 1975. Though his first love was nation music, he was subjected to an abundance of noises from the low Delta area: blues, spirit, classic R&B, and swamp rock and roll. At …

In the past due ’90s, country music got respectable in Sweden again, after twenty years of obscurity. A couple of years of growing curiosity for American nation was accompanied by several home lo-fi and alternate country rings that led just how for a influx of even more pure nation. Alimony …

Vocalist and songwriter Potential Gomez was raised in Taos, New Mexico, the kid of the Portuguese-Spanish dad and an Irish-Scottish mom. He dropped early consuming country blues, and shifted to classic contemporary vocalist/songwriters like Townes Vehicle Zandt, Man Clark, and John Prine, aswell as folk-based rockers like Tom Petty and …

Created in Austin, Tx, the Music group of Heathens became a strap totally unintentionally. Songwriters Colin Brooks, Gordy Quist, and Ed Jurdi had been all performing regular units at Momo’s in Austin if they started sitting in with one another, eventually making the whole lot one big display that they …

Christian Kjellvander is usually a Swedish-born singer and songwriter in the indie Americana tradition. He also founded and was frontman for the country’s famed indie rock-band the Loosegoats. Though Kjellvander was created in Sweden, his parents relocated to america when he was six. His first and most long lasting musical …

Eric Andersen has preserved a career being a folk-based singer/songwriter because the 1960s. As opposed to such peers as Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, Andersen’s composing has already established a intimate/philosophical/poetic bent generally, rather than socially mindful one, though one of is own best-known music, “Thirsty Boot styles,” provides as …

The awakening interest for alternative country in the past due ’90s saw several small, low profile, bands emerging as well as similar record companies. Elmer was created in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1997 using the addition of drummer Glenn Halvarsson. At that time vocalist Niklas Blomkvist, bassist Jonas Hagberg and guitarist …