The weariness portrayed by Caleb Caudle on 2014’s Paint Another Layer on My Heart is all but gone on his latest album, Carolina Ghost. Newly sober and returned to his Piedmont roots, Caudle relishes in his newfound outlook and life’s…
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Following up his lauded 2014 LP, Paint Another Layer on My Heart, singer/songwriter Caleb Caudle will release Carolina Ghost, his third album, on 26 February 2016 via This Is American Music. Having relocated from New Orleans back to his native…
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Best of 2015 – #3 Joey Kneiser – The Wildness (This Is American Music) Any new music from Tennessee’s Joey Kneiser is a cause for celebration. With a nearly flawless back catalog — both solo and with Glossary — The Wildness finds…
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Best of 2015 – #5 Have Gun, Will Travel – Science From an Easy Chair (This Is American Music) Adhering to Hemingway’s theory of omission, Science From an Easy Chair from Have Gun, Will Travel illustrates why we should listen…
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The thing about first loves is they never leave us. Memories linger, words uttered years or decades prior still ring true. For those whose first love was music — rock and roll — they would never lack for companionship. Certainly there…
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Featuring a cavalcade of Southern indie artists from the This Is American Music stable, the TIAM 2015 Sampler includes many artists featured here, such as Have Gun, Will Travel, Caleb Caudle, Fire Mountain, Blue Blood, The Holy Ghost Electric Show,…
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The two most dreaded words one can hear in advance of a new release: “Concept Album.” Sure, it can work for metal (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest) and prog acts (Yes, Genesis et al), punk and emo bands like Green Day…
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Following the breakup of his band Gift Horse, Athens, Georgia’s Hunter Morris gathered his thoughts in the streams of Georgia while pursuing his non-musical passion: fly fishing. Alone with only the sounds of nature and the past on his mind,…
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Intermingling nearly every musical genre from below the Mexi-American border up to the Mason-Dixon Line, Oxford, Mississippi’s The Holy Ghost Electric Show are not of this time. Having created a patchwork map, eras past and places far and wide dot…
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When you have the ear of John Moreland, you are doing something right. Thus the well-deserved admiration for Paint Another Layer On My Heart, the latest release from New Orleans-via-North Carolina singer/songwriter Caleb Caudle. Following the 2012 release Tobacco Town, Caudle hit…
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Not content to coast on accolades that included being named among the “12 Alabama Bands You Need to Know Now” by Paste Magazine in 2013, the Troy, Alabama quintet Fire Mountain look to justify that praise on their debut LP,…
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The future plans of first romances seldom materialize, no matter how certain one party is of a future together. A cursory read through an old high school yearbook or hidden box of love letters saved in a closet demonstrates this…
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