Continental

Finlin Jeff: Soul on the line 2022 [Digipack / CD]

Gripka Israel Nash: Live in Holland 2011 [Digipack / CD]

Tillsammans med musiker som tidigare jobbat med bl.a. Steve Cropper, Levon Helm, Gregg Allman och Gov't Mule skapar Chris ett gung, en slags swamprock med storstadspuls. Klass -<br/>igen - från Continental.

Jeffrey Foucault sixth studio album, Cold Satellite. The album was born out of a collaboration between Mr. Foucault and longtime friend, and contemporary American Poet, Lisa Olstein. Ms. Olstein is the author of Radio Crackling Radio Gone, and Lost Alphabet, both published by Copper Canyon Press.<br/><br/>Mr. Foucault is someone I have been following for quite some time. I was initially turned on to his work when I head the Redbird album, an excellent collaboration with Kris Delmhorst and Peter Mulvey. From there I picked up Ghost Repeater and his debut album, Miles From The Lightning.<br/><br/>Mr Foucault's full-length album tribute of John Prine's work, Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes is an impressive homage worth checking out, and one I've enjoyed since catching John Prine at last year's Newport Folk Festival. His previous collaboration before the Cold Satellite album, Seven Curses, with Mark Erelli Erelli is an album of murder ballads, including stellar covers including Bruce Springsteen's "Johnny 99" to Neil Young's "Powderfinger", as well as some traditional tunes.

"I feel that (The Edge) is my most direct album to date," says Freund. "Direct to the listeners in a sonic sense and transparent to what is going on in my life right now." The songs cover such topics as endless touring (Lakeshore Drive) and cell phones, or lack thereof (Show Me The Love), relationships (Everything, Lonesome) and even his recent step into parenthood (Daddy's Song). The nod to Venice comes mostly in the breezy "Wounded Surfer Boy" - about whom Freund shares, "I have seen more than a few in the neighborhood - and the girls that trail after them." The subtle beauty of "Sweetly Calling My Name" evokes an even further westerly feel with references to Hawaii and a slack key tuning on his guitar with hauntingly beautiful vocal help from LA singer-songwriter friend Meiko. "Firetrucks" is what Freund called the "centerpiece of the record" - written on a moody rainy night in San Francisco when his buddy Brett Dennen gently advised him to "stay in and write!"<br/><br/>Freund admits he hasn't a clue where the album opener "Cruel Cruel World" came from.Freund spent the mid-'90s touring with the indie rock cult faves The Silos and has been releasing solo albums since 1998. The New York Times once noted on Tom, "Every year the mounting landfill of new releases that threatens to bury the working music journalists yields a few unexpected gems, and Tom Freund is one of them."

Svenska bandet Thisells största influenser är Neil Young, Neko Case, Townes Van Zandt och Gram Parsons. Thisell är Peter Thisell och Petter Nilsson (tidigare Pete Thompson), Karin Wiberg och Björn Kleinhenz (Boy Omega, Björn Kleinhenz) och Richard Göthesson.

Den akustiska folktrions första under namnet Wild Ponies (tidigare duon Doug & Telisha). De tolv låtarna är producerade av Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams...). Casey Driessen, Russ Pahl, Jake Winebrenner är några av de roots?musikanter som medverkar på albumet.