Sunday 2 August 2015

Playlist week of August 1, 2015

2015-08-01

1st August 2015 – BBC Playlist

Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire Show playlist August 1, 2015
Brand new music from Underhill Rose, The Shires and Jason Isbell.
Classics from Vern Gosdin & Sammi Smith and tributes to Lynn Anderson and Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons who died this week


Laura Bell Bundy - Maps Out The Window | Album: Another Piece Of Me MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com 
George Ducas - Give Me Back My Honky Tonk | Album: 4340 CD UK iTunes (August 1, 1966) BIRTHDAY
Jamey Johnson & Friends - Living For A Song | Album: Living For A Song:  A Tribute To Hank Cochran CD (2012)  (Hank Cochran;  Aug 2, 1935; died July 15, 2010  (aged 74) BIRTHDAYS
Terri Clark - Bad Car | Album: Some Songs CD - Amazon.com (August 5, 1968) BIRTHDAY
The Shires - All Over Again | Album: Brave CD - MP3 - UK iTunes
Vince Gill - The Only Love | Album: These Days CD - MP3 # Tribute to Steel player Buddy Emmons who died aged 78, See BLOG
Kacey Musgraves & Willie Nelson - Are You Sure? | Album: Pageant Material CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com # Written by Willie Nelson & Buddy Emmons (whose sole contribution was to come up with the title)
Flats & Sharps - It’s ok My Love | Album: Always There (EP) MP3 - iTunes  
Lisa Stewart - Old Fashioned Broken Heart | Album: Lisa Stewart (1993) CDMP3 (August 6, 1968) BIRTHDAY 
Jason Isbell - Hudson Commodore | Album: Something More Than Free NEW CD - MP3 - Amazon.com
Ash Breeze - I’ll Never shed Another Tear | Album: The Road's Not Easy (July 2015) NEW MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Vern Gosdin - It Is Raining At Your House? | Album: Greatest Hits MP3 (Aug 5, 1934; died April 28, 2009 (aged 74)) BIRTHDAY
Darius Rucker & Mallary Hope - Baby I’m Right | Album: Southern Style CD - Amazon.com  The latest one to line dance to.
Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden | Album: Rose Garden CD # Tribute to the country music legend who died aged 67 See BLOG Post
John Clark Blackwell & Susie McEntire - Daddy’s Hands NEW Single
Ashley Monroe - Has Anybody Ever Told You? | Album: The Blade CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Blake Shelton – Gonna NEW Single 
Sammi Smith - With Pen In Hand | Album: Help Me Make It Through The Night: The Memorial Album CD (August 5, 1943; died Feb 12, 2005 (aged 61)) BIRTHDAY   
Mavericks - All Night Long | Album: Mono CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com  (Raul Malo Aug 7, 1965) BIRTHDAY
Gold Heart - Steam Engine | Album: Places I've Been CD - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Michael Peterson - Let Me Love You One More Time | Album: Being Human MP3 (August 7, 1959) BIRTHDAY
Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris - If You Lived Here You’d Be Home | Album: The Traveling Kind CD - MP3 - UK iTunesAmazon.com  (Rodney Crowell; August 7, 1950) BIRTHDAY 
Claire Petrie - Closed For Repair | Album: The One MP3 - Amazon.com
Underhill Rose - When I Die | Album: Great Tomorrow CD - MP3 - UK iTunes - Amazon.com
Paul Costa - Sad Old Country Song | Album: Wheels & Steel (July 2012) CD (Import)- UK iTunes
Vera Van Heeringen - It’s All Been Said | Album: Proper Brew Website (CD) - Bandcamp  

New on The Show

FLATS & SHARPS

 “It’s ok My Love” –  ”I really like the name of this band…They’re a really interesting band, mostly original material, this one’s the first track and I always say have a good first track on your EP to hook us in and they have done so on this one” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire 

Start Info: Founded on 1 February 2011
Genre: Bluegrass
Band Members: Josh Warner (Guitar, Vocals), Mikey Ponsford (Mandolin, Vocals), Liam Fitzharris (Double Bass, Vocals), 
Kirk Bowman (Banjo, Vocals), Danny Hart (Fiddle, Vocals)
Home Town: Penzance, Cornwall
Facebook: Flats and Sharps blur the lines between Bluegrass, Folk and Country, performing classics from the genres and their own highly original songs. These five “incredible young musicians” honed their skills in four years and more than 300 live performances charming and wowing audiences along the way.

From their humble beginning busking in Penzance as 17 year-olds which landed them a four hour gig at a restaurant Lands End. Lands End was just the beginning of the journey for Flats and Sharps and four years on they haven’t stopped writing and performing, adding a fiddle player along the way and building a great following.

Blurb: Highlights include a show for the Governor of Kentucky and US Ambassador to the UK; shows at Jack Wills and Ralph Lauren events; scores of festival appearances at The Isle of Wight, Camp Bestival and many other Bluegrass, Folk, Country and Americana Festivals; and gigs at numerous music venues, arts centres, clubs and corporate events.
Flats and Sharps are writing great songs with universal appeal which are currently being recorded with a producer at a top studio in London for release in 2015.

They performed on the Town Square stage at the Country 2 Country Festival at the O2 in London in March 2015. In review  Alan Cackett.com wrote: A relatively young group, they proved to be not only superb musicians, fine singers and writers of good original material, but also highly entertaining.
With an experienced management team (Guy Morris & Oroh Angiama) in place, 2015 promises to be a breakthrough year for these five talented young men who have their sights set high.
Watch their cover of "Born To Be With You" filmed live at The Green Note, Camden 6th December 2014.
Their new EP ALWAYS THERE released June 15, 2015 showcases their song-writing, vocal and playing talent with the lead track “It’s OK My Love” getting some radio play and the video gaining traction. There are four original songs on the EP as well as a Bluegrass version of the Jesse Fuller song Ninety-Nine Years and One Dark Day.

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Jason Isbell
“Hudson Commodore” – “It’s a tough choice because I really did enjoy this album….lovely tracks on here… I thought that was just great” - Marie Crichton BBC Radio Shropshire 

Home Town: Muscle Shoals, AL

Jason Isbell is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Green Hill, Alabama, in Lauderdale County known for his solo career and as a former member of the Drive-By Truckers for 6 years.
After spending six years with the Southern rock outfit, singer/guitarist Isbell left the group in 2007 to pursue a solo career.

Isbell had already honed his songwriting skills during his tenure with the Truckers, and he funneled those talents into Sirens of the Ditch, a bluesy, punk-infused lesson in guitar tones and Southern swagger that marked his solo debut in summer 2007. Backed by a new band dubbed the 400 Unit, Isbell took his songs on the road and soon began penning another album, which he recorded with the 400 Unit in 2008. Released the following year, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit was another step away from his work with Drive-By Truckers, relying as much on sad, melancholic country ballads as the familiar Muscle Shoals sound.
 After performing more than 200 shows annually for several years running, Isbell took a breather in 2010 and returned home to northern Alabama.
Jason has released a solo album every two years since 2007, building his fanbase as he went.
His last album, SOUTHEASTERN (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers), released June 11, 2013, provided his Top 200 UK breakthrough, reaching No.136 in 2013. In America Southeastern landed a No.23 on the Billboard 200 with impressive debut sales of 17,521 copies. An album of “haunting atonement and redemption”, the sparse and impressive set  proved to be a smash with critics and a commercial success that introduced Isbell to a new and larger audience, with Isbell and his band touring extensively in support.
He took a further big leap with his stylistically diverse new album SOMETHING MORE THAN FREE, released July 17, 2015 made a debut at No.17 (3,256 sales) on the Official UK Top 100 Album Chart (week ending July 30, 2015).
In America on the Billboard Country Album chart (dated August 8, 2015) it blocked Alan Jackson from landing a #1 as SOMETHING MORE THAN FREE sold 45,800 copies (#6 Billboard 200/ #1 Billboard Country Albums) edging out Jackson's ANGELS AND ALCOHOL (45,500 copies sold; #5 Billboard 200/ #2 Country)

Isbell married the singer-songwriter and violinist Amanda Shires in February 2013, two days after they finished Southeastern and musician Todd Snider married them. The couple are expecting a baby, a girl, in September 2015. Previously Isbell was married to Shonna Tucker in 2002, a fellow musician from the Muscle Shoals, Alabama community, and a former bass player from Drive-By Truckers.
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