New West

Earle Steve & the Dukes: Times Like These [Vinyl 7"]

All Them Witches: ATW [CD]

"They are the real deal - psychedelic blues-rock warriors who pray at the altar of Black Sabbath, space out like Pink Floyd and shred away their bummers like Blue Cheer." SPIN<br/><br/>Nashville-baserade psych-rockkvartetten All Them Witches är tillbaka med nya albumet "Sleeping Through The War". Plattan innehåller åtta nya låtar producerade av Grammyvinnaren Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell) och följer upp fjolårets hyllade "Dying Surfer Meets His Maker"<br/><br/>Byggstenarna på "Sleeping Through The War" är de samma som gjort All Them Witches till kultfavoriter - mycket fuzz, tunga grooves och kosmiska visioner - men flera ur på vägarna på hemmaplan och i Europa (tre turnéer 2016!) och gjort bandet extremt tight och dynamiskt och även fördjupat låtskrivandet. <br/><br/>Soundet på "Sleeping Through The War" har inspirerats av vitt skilda favoriter som Dr. Johns "Gris-Gris", Sigur Ros, Kyuss och the East. "We wrote it in about six days", berättar gitarristen Ben McLeod. "Where in the past we would have just gone ahead and written and recorded in the studio, we were like nah we're going to do it with Dave, let's be prepared. It was real minimal, Dave didn't want us to get too crazy." Han tillägger, "We wanted a record you could crank. And we wanted girl backup singers." Alltså gästas plattan av Caitlin Rose, Erin Rae och Tristen.<br/><br/>Sångaren och basisten Charles Michael Parks sammanfattar: "We're trying to get to something better -- not necessarily just as musicians -- but as people. I've always said that as we change as people, our music changes, that's why we can never make the same records. I can't be in one of those bands. I hope you'll never hear 'another predictable album from All Them Witches.' There's no art in that."

Grammy Award winner and Americana legend, Delbert McClinton returns to where he began his recording career over 40 years ago, a duets record with Glen Clark. Delbert & Glen released 2 albums in the early 70s. The two remained friends and now have reunited for Blind, Crippled & Crazy. Produced by Gary Nicholson, the new album delivers all the swampy blues, soul and honky tonk sounds with lyrics and harmonies full of wisdom and wit.<br/><br/>Digipak.

Buddy Miller och Jim Lauderdale är två av de verkliga pionjärerna på Americana-scenen. Deras soloplattor, låtskrivande, insatser som studiomusiker och konserter har gjort den till aktade namn såväl inom roots- som countrymusiken.<br/><br/>Lyckliga omständigheter gjorde att de båda råkade vara lediga hemma i Nashville samtidigt. De bestämde sig för att spela in, inspirationen rann till och resultatet blev en ljuvligt avslappnad och underhållande duettplatta.<br/><br/>Digipack.

Thompson Richard: Ship to shore 2024 [Digipack / CD]

3 bonus tracks.<br/><br/>Som titeln antyder är nya plattan en hyllning till läromästaren och vännen Jerry Jeff Walker, som dog hösten 2020, 78 år gammal. <br/><br/>Med "Jerry Jeff" kompletterar Steve Earle den serie hyllningsplattor som inleddes med 2009 års "Townes" (Townes van Zandt), fortsatte med 2029 års "Guy" (Guy Clark) och som nu avslutas med "Jerry Jeff".<br/><br/>2021 gav Steve Earle dessutom ut "J.T.", en fin men smärtsam hyllningen till sonen Justin Townes Earle, som dog 2020, endast 38 år.<br/><br/>"The records were recorded and released in the order in which they left this world. But make no mistake - it was Jerry Jeff Walker who came first," says Earle.<br/> <br/>Earle was 14 when he first heard Walker. His high school drama teacher gave him a copy of "Mr. Bojangles," Walker's classic ballad about an unforgettable character he met in a New Orleans jail. After Earle moved to Nashville in the 1970s, he had the opportunity to get to know Walker, who enlisted him as his designated driver.<br/>"There's a tendency to think of Jerry Jeff around a relationship to one song," Earle says, referring to "Mr. Bojangles," which was covered by everyone from Bob Dylan to Sammy Davis Jr. "He was also such a great interpreter of other people's songs. But my main purpose in recording this album was to remind people that he wrote a lot of fucking great songs."