Dear Deli Readers, We are proud to announce that The Deli's Best of 2012 Emerging Nashville Artist is Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes ! The band received high scores all around in our poll, with votes pouring in from jurors, Deli writers and readers, which is something quite rare and conjures up a fully deserved win. Indie-rockers The Paranormals placed second followed by the Southern blues band Luella & the Sun who came in at third. Please take a look [...]
Acclaimed British neo-folkie John Smith' s return with his fourth album Great Lakes (March 25) finds the songwriter and extraordinarily gifted guitarist emerging from a two-year period of writer's block with some of his strongest and most compelling songs. Three key names figure into Smith's creative rekindling: legendary producer Joe Henry (Bonnie Raitt, Aimee Mann) and Canadian tunesmith Dennis Ellsworth -- both of whom helped in co-writing -- and Irish songstress Lisa Hannigan, in whose band Smith often serves as guitarist. "I looked at my last two records and realized there wasn't [...]
Daniel Ellsworth and The Great Lakes are an awesome group of transplants from all over that now call Nashville home. They're about to hit the road yet again in support of their new album, Civilized Man , and we had the chance to check-in with them before they left town for a 15-city adventure that will include a stop at the Daytrotter HQ (check out recent set by fellow Nashville outfit, Sugar & The High Lows - we're loving Daytrotter lately). Learn more about the band and why they're proud to call [...]
Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes is a great up and coming band that call Nashville their home. Watch the video for "Bleeding Tongue", the opening and stand out track from the band's debut release, Civilized Man which is a nice mixture of Jack White meets Cold War Kids. The video goes all conspiracy theory as the band boards themselves up in a house waiting for the jack boots to kick the door down. Apparently the G-men want to lyrics to the song. The chase is on.
How about a local connection for this band based in Nashville? Daniel Ellsworth & Great Lakes bassist Marshall Skinner is a Columbus guy so you gotta root for him, right? And after giving the band's latest release, Civilized Man (available digitally for the low price of $5.99), a listen, that's a pretty easy thing to do. Ellsworth, who appeared on season 3 of NBC's singing reality competition Sing-Off , recently premiered a pretty cool (and bloody) video for "Bleeding Tongue". (Sounds a little [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes Video: "Bleeding Tongue" Highlight: "We filmed the 'Bleeding Tongue' video just outside of downtown Nashville in an area called Germantown," Ellsworth tells Spinner. "We shot it all in one crazy 15-hour day. It was especially exhausting considering that we had just come off of a two-and-a-half-month tour run the night before. By the end of the day we were exhausted, delirious, and probably a little bit drunk. All in all, it was an [...]
Los seguidores de este grupo de folk independiente de Ontario están de enhorabuena. Según podemos leer en Exclaim! , la banda liderada por Tony Dekker publicará nuevo disco de estudio el próximo 3 de abril a través de Nettwerk . Se llamará New Wild Everywhere y contendrá trece nuevas canciones grabadas en los estudios Revolution Recording de Toronto. Esto no es baladí porque es la primera vez que la formación decide desplazarse hasta un estudio profesional para grabar sus temas. Y eso que hasta ahora han lanzado cuatro [...]
Despite the end of the year fast approaching, thankfully the quality of new music shows no signs of slowing. Here are the best of our November offerings, together with some tasty new tracks to round off the mix.Over thirty great songs - just right for the roaring fire and the cocoa! Download Siskiyou - Twigs And Stones mp3 (from Keep Away The Dead) Brilliantly judged restless blend of country rock, folk, and grand orchestral rock. Download The Cloud Nothings – No Future / No Past mp3 (from Attack [...]
We picked this up via the excellent Piaptk Blog and figured it had to be worth a repost. The Great Lakes are a psych-Country act from Brooklyn who we posted about back in the summer of 2010 when they released their lovely album Ways Of Escape . That was a record of introspective folk and country tunes, and while this is in the same vein, there is a healthy chunk of rockabilly rhythm in there too. This is a previously unreleased track and it is a crackerjack. The band have a new album [...]
New Great Lakes strives to be sad, but its sparkling acoustic-based pop never works itself past a brooding mid-tempo. New Great Lakes, singer-songwriter Paul Hiraga's fourth album under the moniker Downpilot, feels isolated. He recorded it mostly alone on Vashon Island in the Puget Sound, and you can feel the torpor of dull clouds and gray water on all sides of these languid tunes. Perhaps because of the location , the album sounds as if Hiraga is downright obsessed with water. Waves and rivers and water's edges are constantly mentioned, and seem to bear...
Downpilot: New Great Lakes Singer/songwriter Paul Hiraga is effectively Downpilot here and it’s clear why his Americana-with-an-emo-twist was snapped up for the soundtrack of TV series One Tree Hill; American film and TV likes this sort of moody balladeering, full of introspection and wistful nostalgia for his declining Midwest homeland. There’s a smidgen of Elliott Smith in ‘Gone Castaway’ and ‘Rosebud of the Plain’ but without any real sense of hurt, and the politeness of [...]
The Irish summer leaves the nation in a position that no “summer music” ever seems realistic to us. We rarely find ourselves driving to the beach with the top down like the Beach Boys. Even a homegrown track like The Undertones ‘Here Comes the Summer’ seems wildly optimistic. So when you’re seeing Washed Out , the project of Ernest Greene that seems to channel the spirit of some perfect endless summer, it's nice to be indoors pretending it isn’t a lukewarm, overcast Dublin evening. “Some of our songs are about the end of the world. Some are [...]
"...by the Spring time we were done" A fitting announcement to open the second full length from Michael Benjamin Lerner , better known for his power pop vision, Telekinesis . Stories of youth driven by uncertainty and fleeting romance ; run sonically parallel to Matt's knack for creating melodies of instant attraction. It's the type of LP that may eventually fizzle but [...]
let's get into this thing . . Ringo Deathstarr- So High . . . . . I've been ecstatically kicking Colour Trip around since Ringo Deathstarr put it out (Finally!) in february. Shoegaze with energy and they're from Austin...enough said. [...]
I (Geoff) grew up 40 minutes from Lake Michigan, and that's where I remain today (Grand Rapids, MI). Last fall I bought my first surfboard, a 6'13 made-for-the-lakes shortboard and stumbled into the 14+ foot swells that the cooling lake offers as winter's winds approach. It's tough, lake waves are choppy, inconsistent, usually mushy, and for that reason, require unprecedented attention to conditions to get that real good day. A "swell" (see: storm) can mean driving 8 hours north to Lake Superior to catch a 3 hour window of clean, surfable waves. That said, I've paddled [...]
Last week brought a few nights that were stacked with concerts that led to some tough last minute decisions. This week brings the big guns with Fleet Foxes and Lykke Li coming to town along with some other people I'm dying to see live for the first time like Tune-Yards. Luckily, this week it is perfectly spread out over 7 days. There's not a difficult decision in sight unless you count the internal debate of whether or not it's practical to go out every night this week. Considering the line up I think it is. Here's what we have to [...]
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by teepoo When I listen to Harlan Pepper all I can think to myself is how Canadian the sound is. They're four dudes straight out of high school, but they sound like they are veterans of this land. Their sound is a mixture of folk, country and blues with a youthlike playfulness and hook choruses. Their first album, Young and Old was released February 11th on Bandcamp and Maple Music . Harlan Pepper- Great Lakes [...]
Well, it's the first afternoon/early evening of 2011 and I've already learned my first lesson: those plastic cartons of cherry tomatoes are incredibly flimsy and one little bump against the display can cause a cherry tomato avalanche. Yes, I was the unlucky soul that spilled about 4 cartons of cherry tomatoes all over the supermarket floor whilst people looked on with the, "Dude, you're sooooooo stupid" look on their faces. I did what any self-respecting person would do, though... I picked up every single cherry tomato, put them back in their cartons, and bought every single one [...]
The band Great Lakes are a new one me and I get to them at a point where they evolved and moved away from there debut line and sound, formed in Athens, GA in ‘96 the creativity initially revolved around the combined talent of Ben Crum, Dan Donahue and Jamey Huggins along witha fluid line up of other players, the bands debut album was released in 2000, after Huggins moved to pastures new Crum and Donahue moved to Brooklyn and released their second album The Distance Between in ‘02, followed by Diamond Times in ’06. [...]
It's time for something a little special here on dysonsound. We've all made mixtapes in our life, and if you haven't? Try it out! November is a special month because you have the opportunity to give something back to male health while men around the world grow ridiculous looking hair on their upper lip. And thank god for gracious girlfriends and wives who put up with this and the women who are actually participating (not by growing mustaches hopefully). This month is officially called Movember . Not sure what it's all about? Well, [...]
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