Peep This: Danielle M and the Glory Junkies “All My Heroes Are Ghosts” Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 9, 2018February 9, 20180 If you have been on the main page of RLR this week you may have seen our Album of the Week is a record of the same name as this video. We have come to know Danielle Miraglia for her penchant for the blues and fiery hot rock n'roll. Infusing her sound with that of those that came before her from delta blues to the Rolling Stones. Bad ass rock n'roll and ocean deep hues of the blues. There is a lot of heart in her performances, be it with her band The Glory Junkies or by herself with an old Gibson acoustic and a stomp box. This latest video ( produced by Lisa Bastoni ) features a lot of those infusions and
Peep This: Emily Mure’s “Waiting for Change” Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 8, 2018February 8, 20180 In the years getting to know singer-songwriter Emily Mure's music two things are abundantly clear: her songs are overwhelmingly beautiful and full of heartfelt poingnancy and the girl knows how to make a killer music video. The latest from Mure is a video for her song "Waiting for Change" off of last year's 'Worth'. An album that, in a nutshell, completely shattered every emotion my soul was capable of and then gently weaned me back to feeling good again with just how gorgeous it all was. Someone who can write and present songs like that...well, those types of folks are few. The video itself is a simple concept. Mure driving with a view through the rearview of her singing the words to
Peep This: Sam Moss Covers Townes Van Zandt’s “Rex’s Blues” Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - February 5, 2018February 5, 20180 Just over a week ago our old friend Sam Moss swung by the ole RLR homestead, skated up the driveway and spent some time with us catching up, talking about music and filming for the Old Spruce Sessions. After we wrapped up our session at a local artist and friend's studio (that session coming in the next few weeks) we headed back to the house and we stowed away to the place where most of these articles (by me) are written and decided to shoot another quick video. Sam thought "well maybe a cover" and then launched into an absolutely gorgeous and devastatingly haunting version of the late, great Townes Van Zandt's "Rex's Blues". I've heard this song covered god knows how
Watch This: Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards “Pace Myself” Featured Videos Uncategorized by Brian Carroll - January 31, 20180 I have a wife. I have 2 sisters. I have a mother. But I could never fool myself into thinking that I can truly comprehend how it feels to be a woman in society today (or since the dawn of time). I can only try my best to be there for the strong females in my life, march alongside them and be so grateful for their grace and poise in world that kind is (excuse my language) really fucking terrible to the female gender a lot of the time. Its this reason why I am incredibly grateful for a band like Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards. The latest effort from the group is a 3 minute and 38 second empowering
Peep This: The Huntress and Holder of Hands “Creatures of Flight” & Tour Announcement Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - January 5, 2018January 5, 20180 The Huntress and Holder of Hands debut full length "Avalon" managed to slip by me until recently, where I have been fully emerged in the seemingly endless chasm of its depths and soulfulness. Songwriter and band leader of the Huntress, MorganEve Swain beholds an almost mystical ability to draw you in with the demeanor and temperament of her voice. I once saw it described as "monotone but emotive" but feel that description negates its truly distinctive ability to pull you into its orbit and unable to leave until the music stops. There is such beauty in the melancholia and mournfulness of her words and the band's arrangements. It forces you to look at and address themes that may make some
Can’t Go Wrong: Twisted Pine “Bound To Do It Right” Video Premiere Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - November 28, 2017November 29, 20170 A groove that digs itself into you and soothes you from within. It's rare and certainly welcome when listening to a tune and "Bound To Do It Right" encompasses that feeling to the fullest. Kathleen Parks' vocal is smooth and sultry, hitting all the highs just when you start to get comfortable relishing in its crushed velvety, silky smoothness. The percussive chop of the mandolin and intense groove of the upright bass. Never was it truer that a complete work is greater than the sum of its parts than with Twisted Pine and that summation of soaring fiddles and warm, heart melting harmonies is something quite special. The band just dropped a brand new video for "Bound To Do It Right"
Peep This: Kris Delmhorst “All the Way Around” Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - October 25, 2017October 25, 20170 If you have seen any of the Red Line Roots Instagram postings (or any of the photography coming out of the site) you know that monochrome is the ruler of my lens. There is something so beautiful and more impactful to me when an image is embedded with such visual contrast as is present in a black and white image. It feeds my need for that visual hunger. Kris Delmhorst has fed just that grumbling with her recent video release of "All the Way Around" off of this year's "The Wild". Paddling along a beautiful backdrop, her oar and canoe piercing the black waters beneath the bow and singing gently the words "all the way, all the way around". The simplicity of
Peep This: Live From Nowhere – Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - October 19, 2017October 19, 20170 There are some bands that are just bands, then there are some bands that are a fully engulfing experience. Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys is the latter, and for that we are all a bit better in life. The band at first glance may seem a bit 'unapproachable' to a more, perhaps, conservative person, with Walter as the center piece to an orbiting cast of macabre meets jubilation, with his often theatrical attire and big beard, but the band are a bunch of lovely folks creating art beyond just songs and singing, they all truly live the art that they are creating. This latest edition of Live From Nowhere couldn't pair a more perfect setting with a more
Peep This: Izzy Heltai ‘Anyone to Anybody’ Featured Videos Music Features by Brian Carroll - October 13, 2017October 13, 20170 Izzy Heltai is a Western Mass based songwriter toting the likes of Isbell, Gregory Alan Isakov and Brandi Carlile as influences. 'Anyone to Anybody' is a brand new single (with a video to match) from the songwriter jut out today. The video sees Heltai joined by friends Luke Tobin and Daniel O'Connell, adding sweet harmonies to elevate the singers well balanced voice. A voice that is equal parts gruff, sandpapered scratches, unfiltered and open just enough to let the story out and smooth, honeyed flavor that eases you in. There is a tenderness tempered by the genuine nature of his stories that is endearing and engaging. Give the video a watch below and keep and eye out for this one. There is a mellowed
Peep This: I’m With Her Cover Adele “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” Featured Videos by Brian Carroll - October 5, 20170 Honestly, is there anything better than 3 beautiful voices harmonizing the living sh*t out of a genre criss-crossing song that you totally don't expect at a bluegrass-meets-folk-meets-chamber music concert? I am not sure there is and the trio of Aoife O' Donovan, Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz melt my heart and take my knees out every single time. Not sure there is much else to say. I'm With Her has, once again, left me speechless. Just watch this...oh, and Paul Kowert: you are a beast on the big ol' bass. I'm With Her will be donating proceeds from this live recording to Thistle Farms, a Nashville-based nonprofit that heals, empowers and employs survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction. For more info / donation