A love song sung as a duet from the perspective of the sea and the shore with a guest appearance from the moon doesn't sound like the recipe for a breakout hit and I guess it won't be to the larger music world. But to me in my small corner it's in the running for song of they year. The song is credited to Amy Speace of course (since it's on her new record How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat ) but it is John Fullbright's deep voice (as the sea) that kicks the [...]
Nashville-based performing songwriter Amy Speace may have some advice in her How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat (April 16), but these are revelations emerging from a particularly tumultuous period of her own life. The grief on the death of a parent, lost love and, most tellingly, the scare that came when she lost her voice to a case of acute laryngitis -- an event that brought panic and tears before her long road to recovery. As the second album following her move from New York to Nashville a few years back, [...]
Nashville based singer-songwriter Amy Speace releases her new album, How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat, on April 16th. The album was produced by by Neilson Hubbard and features appearances from John Fullbright, Ben Sollee, and Mary Gauthier. Speace is performing at Burlap and Bean in Newtown Square on Friday, April 19th. Below, download the ... Continue reading
We are as giddy as a school kid to to announce the second wave of artists, from this amazing city we call home, who will be making the pilgrimage down to Austin for SXSW in March 2013. We've already run down the first wave of announced Nashville artists reppin' in Austin this spring . To celebrate the second wave, we've posted some tracks from each of the honored Nashvillian's below. Congrats to all of the bands that received the nod. Enjoy! Cherub [...]
Amy Speace 8.19.2011 Wildflower Pavilion, Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO Source: Microtech Gefell M3002s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave Taped by: Lance Stack Setlist: 1. intro 2. Change For Me 3. Had To Lose 4. The Killer In Me 5. banter 6. Ghost [...]
Here is someone new to Coffee. Find out more here: Amy Speace . Maybe buy an album or two!
Pretty enough, but not enough meat here Amy Speace has such a lovely voice. It's a shame that her songs aren't more interesting. Land Like A Bird's opener "Drive All Night" is repetitive and dull, and so are any number of tunes on the album: "Ghost", "Change For Me" and "Had to Lose" all mistake repetition for intensity. Speace can use her quavering voice to evoke any number of emotions, including wistfulness on "Land Like a Bird" and "Real Love Song", and...
Bonnie Whitmore - Embers to Ashes We first got this record at WDVX almost a year ago when Bonnie Whitmore came to town as a member of Hayes Carll's touring band. Embers to Ashes got an official release this January and takes listeners on a journey from the beginning (the embers) the the end (the ashes) of a relationship. Whitmore walks a strictly country road for most of the album, but isn't afraid to expand things from time to time as she [...]
Amy Speace - Roots/folk singer/songwriter waved farewell to New York and New Jersey and said hello to East Nashville during the writing of her new album...what she describes as "the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another" // Release : Land Like A Bird (March 29) // Quote : "Her velvety, achy voice recalls an early Lucinda Williams. Sounding grounded but wounded, Speace exudes the vulnerability of someone who's loved and lost."-- NPR // Sounds like : elegiac postcards of friends and places left [...]
[STREAM] Amy Speace - Ghost
Amy Speace - Land Like a Bird Release Date: Mar 29, 2011 Label: Thirty Tigers
Amy Speace returns with a personal album of warmth and beauty.
Before their first show on the "Decembersongs" tour, I caught up with Dan Navarro and Sally Barris to talk about this holiday singer/songwriter collaboration, and how the idea differs from what they are used to. Dan Navarro The show that night at Bluebird Café was a most warm and cozy way to bring in the spirit of the season. In dimlit tranquility of the room, the cast of songwriters (Dan Navarro, Sally Barris, Jon Vezner, and Amy Speace) went one-by-one around the circle singing on each other's songs. Many of the songs were original compositions that were heartfelt, [...]
Here we are...smack dab in the holiday season. I saw a light flurry of snow yesterday morning, traffic has started to thicken up en route to the mall, and I noticed that many Facebook friends decorated their homes this weekend. The only thing left to make it official is a viewing of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation . This weekend, I started looking around for holiday shows to get me into the spirit, and found that a couple that looked promising. Trans-Siberian Orchestra will be at the Bridgestone Arena on Sunday , December 12th; and for more [...]
Power-pop icon Alex Chilton died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday at age 59, but his influential '70s band Big Star shone brightly nonetheless Saturday night at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin. A headlining concert originally scheduled as a reunion show instead became a star-studded tribute to the late songwriter/producer whose work with the Box Tops and Big Star inspired many indie artists, including R.E.M and the Replacements. Anchored by longtime Big Star drummer Jody Stephens [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The extent of Big Star frontman Alex Chilton 's influence was clear Saturday night at SXSW , where a scheduled Big Star performance at Antone's turned into a moving tribute to Chilton, who died Mar. 17 of an apparent heart attack at age 59. An impressive array of musicians inspired by Big Star joined drummer Jody Stephens , guitarist Jon Auer and bassist Ken Stringfellow to honor the music and [...]
A wonderful cascade of covers from a friend has turned my thoughts to covers of punk music this week. As Katie noted in her send-along, much of which appear below, "the thread that runs from folk to punk seems such a vibrant and easily spotted one to pull at", and that sounds just about right; I'd even go so far as to suggest that, like folk in the generation before it, Punk both served and sprung from the hearts of a discontented youth counterculture, and - as I noted about Rap rather tongue-in-cheek last year - [...]
Something for the weekend sir? Just an assortment of bits and pieces I've stumbled this week, thanks all for the links.... Ray Davies Talks Choral Collection, Kinks Reunion [...]
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