Each song on John Paul White’s album The Hurting Kind (April 12th on Single Lock) is its own hurting kind. White is careful not to equate romantic love as the only thing that hurts but rather leaving it open to all things, whether that be time moving on and the hurt of looking back on what … Continue reading ‘The Hurting Kind’ – John Paul White
Happy is not a word that is usually associated with John Paul White’s music. Full of longing, heartbreakingly beautiful but definitely not happy. But in this case, White brought the sweetener, bringing the bitter taste to a halt. White opened with ‘I Wish I Could Write You a Song’ delivered in his pure and haunting … Continue reading John Paul White – Live at Omeara
Spotify is a great way to get music to people globally either for free or at a very low-cost monthly subscription. It is also now being used as an effective social media tool in that it allows artists to gain new fans either through their own Spotify pages or via specifically curated playlists. The streaming … Continue reading The Heart and Soul of Spotify: How Spotify’s Financial Policies Impact Artists – The Producer
Spotify is a great way to get music to people globally either for free or at a very low-cost monthly subscription. It is also now being used as an effective social media tool in that it allows artists to gain new fans either through their own Spotify pages or via specifically curated playlists. The streaming … Continue reading The Heart and Soul of Spotify: How Spotify’s Financial Policies Impact Artists – The Label
The external becomes the internal, the political becomes the personal and vice versa. One bleeds into the other until it’s all muddy and messy and we don’t know where outside influences begin or where we end. In Erin Rae’s album Putting On Airs, co-produced by Dan Knobler and Jerry Bernhardt,(Single Lock, 8th June) the personal … Continue reading Edward Hopper, Silent Spaces and ‘Putting On Airs’ by Erin Rae
“Don’t you dare look out your window/ Darling everything’s on fire.” Words and music from a dystopian film but words that are uncomfortably close to us all right now. Dark days are ahead on both sides of the Atlantic today, days that will make us want to close the curtains and hide away, but we … Continue reading John Paul White: Live at Bush Hall, London
‘Someday Soon’ is the new song to be released from Lindi Ortega’s upcoming album ‘Faded Gloryville’, due out August 7th on Last Gang Records. The album produced by Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Anderson East); Colin Linden (who produced her 2012 Cigarettes & Truckstops); and the Muscle Shoals based team behind the Single Lock … Continue reading ‘Someday Soon’ – Lindi Ortega and John Paul White
