With touches of zydeco, blues, country, rock, soul and folk, Welcome Home, Shelley King’s latest record with members of the Subdudes (John Magnie, Tim Cook and Steve Amedée) is a spicy gumbo of roots style and sound for your ears.
Growing from a few demos, the talented musicians eventually recorded enough material in John’s Colorado home studio to create a full-length album.
The KBCO Holiday Concert at the Ogden Theatre brought together a trifecta of talented bands: Brett Dennen, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Denver’s own Paper Bird. And though it was below freezing outside, the crowd inside kept warm as they danced the night away.
Newly relocated singer-songwriter Jessie Torrisi left the Big Apple for Austin at the beginning of this year, following her musical dreams and creating her first record, Brûler, Brûler.
She took some time to talk with us about the move, being a drummer turned front-woman and the gift indie rock has given to the world.
The loud buzz of socializing and beer glasses clinking at Telluride’s Las Montañas Cantina stops the second Carolyn Wonderland opens her mouth. She’s chosen to open with a vintage gospel number, “Nobody’s Fault But Mine,” giving it an acrobatic a cappella intro before she and the band settle into a bluesy groove.
Under the billing “Clash of the Legends” Denver’s own Jill “The Western Menace” Sobule and Erin “The Northeast Bomber” McKeown of Massachusetts shared the stage at the Walnut Room performing for a packed Friday night crowd.
Opening with a newly composed tune about Denver and name-dropping several local celebrities (Pam Grier, The Fray, Karl Rove) Jill joked that their next song was called “Greeley.”
Rockabilly queen Rosie Flores’ latest album, Girl Of The Century, has been out on shelves for almost a month and she’s currently overseas promoting the record.
On the eve of her European tour, Rosie chatted with us about working with Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, hearing herself on the radio of her 1979 Camero and Gram Parson’s pants.
Listening to Danny Shafer conjures images of simpler times, he’s a country boy at heart (though he grew up in Chicago) and his latest record, One Morning is beautifully straightforward.
The lyrics are honest and direct, in the style of the troubadours that have influenced his music and the guitar accompaniment is accented by the fingerpicked fills that bring a front-porch feel to the disc.
When they’re not out on the road promoting Heaven & Earth, their latest record, or in the studio recording, Ricky Davis (half of the duo Blue Mother Tupelo) keeps busy handling the scheduling, producing and other business aspects of music.
From their home in Henderson, Tenn. or “Johnny Cash Country” as he calls it, Ricky took some time to answer our questions on their music, touring and an upcoming showcase at the Bijou Theater.
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