
I should have written about each and every one of Drew Kennedy's prior releases. And I'm not sure why I didn't. Drew hits all my sweet spots. He's a troubadour from New Braunfels, Tx. who combines straight ahead country with bruising rock and sensitive folk. As you can imagine I'm a sucker for the songs on the folkier edge of this spectrum so I've linked to the song "The Captain And The Highway" from the new record Fresh Water In The Salton Sea . Not content to just release a [...]
Rocktober! Get it? No?! Ok....I'll go stand over there... On the 26th day of Rocktober Shel Silverstein gave to me...a 26 second song! Actually, this song is 27 seconds. My Morning Jacket - 26 Second Song.mp3 Buy : Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to Shel Silverstein (2010) On the 27th day of Rocktober Drew Kennedy [...]

For the odd one or two who pay a frequent visit you will no doubt be dazzled by Beat Surrender's blogger make-over, I've being playing around with the beta templates, not convinced it's better or worse myself. Have shifted all the links to the free albums and streams to a dedicated page which I've updated with a couple of albums today, the first is an original score recorded by the guys of Amber Dust for The Moon Under Glass, out of context it's difficult to appreciate the album as a complete piece of work but there [...]
Comme son titre le résume assez bien, le nouvel album de Drew Kennedy est à prendre comme la bande-son d'un road-movie à travers les Etats-Unis. Un concept qui rappelle un peu celui du Dollars And Dimes de Owen Temple, sorti plus tôt cette année. A vrai dire, ce n'est pas le seul point commun que les 2 disques partagent. Temple et Kennedy pratiquent le même genre de country-rock texan cultivé,

Just catching up with a few write ups on album's I've being fortunate enough to receive over the last few weeks. [...]