This year's top album list pretty much assembled itself throughout the year. The top 4 in particular are albums I expect to continue to listening to over and over for years to come. Click on the album titles to read the full reviews, purchase the albums, and, in some cases, download mp3s… Muruch's Top 25 [...]
Last night's Mountain Stage concert featured Bearfoot, The Sweetback Sisters, Katie Costello, Fitz & the Tantrums and Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers. Let's be honest here. I really only went to the concert for The Sweetback Sisters and Fitz & the Tantrums. As vastly different as the two bands are, they were equally entertaining and [...]
Sweetback Sisters - Looking for a Fight We'll start today with a nice retro-sounding record from The Sweetback Sisters. Looking for a Fight is a fun mix of covers and originals that straddles that line between revivalist country and progressive twang... like a less bombastic Those Darlins. You can read my full review of the album over at Country Standard Time . The Sweetback Sisters: Looking for a Fight ( Buy Album [...]
Stellar musicianship whipped together with a retro rockabilly sound and killer harmonies - that's The Sweetback Sisters.
The Sweetback Sisters are looking for a fight. And I for one, am not going to step into the ring. This band of retro-country-western-punk would surly kick my ass. The sextet makes music your grandparents would have purchased on '45s after drinking cherry cokes at the drug store. And I mean that in a good way. You can get their album (on CD or digitally) on May 31st. Don't say I didn't warn ya. Looking For A Fight (streaming only) by Signature Sounds Go see [...]
The Sweetback Sisters will released their new album, Lookin' for a Fight, on May 31st via Signature Sounds Records. The album is a delightful nod to vintage Western swing, honky tonk and classic Nashville country. Covers of songs originally recorded by legends like Patsy Cline are interspersed several new originals that fit right in. The [...]
Ross Bellenoit Eight Track Mind (2010) Track list: 01. Mysterious Child (Oh God!) 02. Heart of Creation 03. Now Is the Time 04. Wicked Love 05. Human Nature 06. Speak Clear 07. Different Crown 08. Don't Tell Me 09. This Time Around 10. Borderline 11. Coda Eight Track Mind is the debut album by Ross Bellenoit , a name that has [...]
As I've noted several times before, I'm not big on year-end omnibus posts, and the concept of countdowns, with their hierarchies and exclusionary undertones, challenges my generous sensibilities. There's so much greatness out there, the perfect song and songsmith for every one of a thousand nuanced moods and whims; to choose one over the other would be as wrong as asking me to rank my students by favorite, thus neglecting the dormant potential, the unique potency, and the epiphanic moments inherent in each. But it's been a rich year here at Cover Lay [...]
Chicken Ain't Chicken is the debut full-length album by Sweetback Sisters, and it will be released on June 30th. It can only be called a country album, though there are definitely elements of folk, jazz, and even funk thrown in. The strength lies the honeyed harmony of the gals and the twang-blues ruckus of certain songs, but the weakness seems to be found in songs that get a little too quirky for their own good. The first portion of the album is charming and captivating, starting with [...]
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