"New" music?

[TheSportsPredictor]

New ZZ Ward is very good:

 

[Buck]

How about Joan Shelley?
A selection from NPR's Tiny Desk series:


More evidence of the death of guitar music.

 

[SFIND]

How about Joan Shelley?
A selection from NPR's Tiny Desk series:


More evidence of the death of guitar music.

She's no Joan Baez, but at least tolerable, and that's more than I can for most post-2000 music.

 

[QYFW]

New ZZ Ward is very good:

I don't know how to feel about TSP winning this thread.

 

[SpeedTchr]

How about Joan Shelley?
A selection from NPR's Tiny Desk series:


More evidence of the death of guitar music.

That really wasn't bad at all. Very nice and peaceful.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I don't know how to feel about TSP winning this thread.

I'm no oop.

 

[Big Circus]

I was recently turned on to the Revivalists. Some of their lyrics are truly awful, and I know the video screenshot makes them look like a bunch of assholes, but damn if they can't find a catchy groove. And the singer has some serious pipes.

 

[SnarkShark]

Lake Street Dive and Leon Bridges are two of my favorite discoveries in the last five years or so.

The most recent band I've stumbled upon--even though I love some of their songs and hate others, and there doesn't seem to be much in between--is Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.

 

[Cosmo]

Lake Street Dive is excellent. Popped up on my Spotify discover list one week and I was sold.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Ted Leo is back! Great article on Stereogum which includes several songs including a new one:

Ted Leo 'The Hanged Man' Interview

 

[qtlaw]

Just found Calvin Harris, Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1, a really nice summer album (old school description) but some smooth grooves with contemporary singers (Frank Ocean, Snoop, etc.)

 

[QYFW]

Listened to more of Isbell's latest. I really like some songs -- If We Were Vampires, Cumberland Gap -- but he's trying to hard on songs like Hope the High Road and White Man's World.

 

[Cosmo]

Listened to more of Isbell's latest. I really like some songs -- If We Were Vampires, Cumberland Gap -- but he's trying to hard on songs like Hope the High Road and White Man's World.

I agree with this. It's quite obvious that his foray into fatherhood has completely shaped his songwriting, which is understandable. I like the album quite a bit, but it's not Southeastern. I don't think he can ever replicate Southeastern. It's one of the best five albums I've ever listened to.

 

[Songbird]

 

[Jake_Taylor]

The new Steve Earle album is awesome.

 

[Machine Head]

The first hour of the syndicated radio program Smokestack Lightin' is all new blues releases:

Smokestack Lightnin'

Try out some Selwyn Birchwood. Found him there, among others.

 

[QYFW]

I need more guitar!

 

[Machine Head]

Don't we all.

Go try some Ronnie Earl out.

I like some of this stuff. They passed through not long ago:

The RIDES

 

[QYFW]

Stumbled across Black Pistol Fire. Another loud duo. Good stuff.

 

[Machine Head]

I need more guitar!

Made me think of one of my favorite 'guitar' songs back in the 70s.

Probably not in your wheelhouse, but Bill Nelson could play. Group was Be Bop Deluxe, but it was him.

Give it a full listen: