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Music & Book Reviews: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt Blake, Pete Ham, and Eddie Hinton

Music & Book Reviews: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt Blake, Pete Ham, and Eddie Hinton @wonderwomenofcountry @kelllywilliskw @melissacarpermusic @brennenleigh #jeffburger @americanahighways #americanamusic @theesinseers @tourmatt @deviousplanet #peteham #eddiehinton

Music & Book Reviews: Wonder Women of Country, plus Thee Sinseers, Matt Blake, Pete Ham, and Eddie Hinton This column rarely covers EPs—the unending flood of full-length CDs is more than enough to keep a critic busy—but a six-song set called Wonder Women of Country: Willis, Carper, Leigh is too good to ignore. The Texas-based trio consists of longtime alt-country artist Kelly Willis; Melissa…

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Willis, Carper, Leigh - Wonder Women Of Country (2024) … joined forces …

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Kelly Willis, Brennen Leigh and Melissa Carper performing “Fool's Paradise”. _____________________ Fool’s Paradise Songwriter: Kelly Willis

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day One, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 4, 2024

Lucinda Williams was not at Day One of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. But Chuck Prophet, Ismay, Steve Earle and Kelly Willis - joined by Willis’ Wonder Women of Country bandmates Melissa Carper and Brennen Leigh - brought Williams’ spirit to the Banjo stage as the Songs from a Gravel Road Band.

They opened the festival guitar-pull style, trading such numbers as “I Just Wanted to See You So Bad” (Wonder Women), “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten” (Earle) and “Crescent City” (Prophet) before ending with an all-hands-on-deck rendering of “All the Way to Jackson” a little shy of their scheduled 45 minutes of stage time.

Lindsay Lou followed on the Arrow stage sporting white shades and yellow flowers on her mic stand, into which she sang hilarious band introductions and turned them into a magnificent song of their own.

Lou and the all-woman, voices-of-goddesses Queen of Time Band - featuring Isa Burke on electric guitar and violin plus a rhythm section - used their 45 minutes to play a mix of Huffamoose-styled jazz, folk, rock and weepy country music as they offered up songs from the LP for which the band is named (“Nothing Else Matters”) and from across Lou’s discography (“Roll with Me”). And then they were off to catch a flight to the next festival.

So the Sound Biteses flew off to the Swan stage as the harmony-rich strains of the aforementioned Wonder Women wafted from the Banjo …

“… We’re going to slow it down a little bit,” the self-deprecating Milk Carton Kids said from the Swan, where they played their not-quite-ready-for-a-free-festival folk music for a large audience mixed with listeners and talkers. Those who shut their mouths and opened their ears were treated to the sonic heirs of Simon & Garfunkel - except funnier.

“It’s very hard to write a song on banjo without killing a person in the song,” Kenneth Pattengale said as he played a set heavy on selections from I Only See the Moon - and going all the back to “Michigan” - with fellow Kid Joey Ryan.

Surrounded by Golden Highway on the Banjo stage, Molly Tuttle recalled seeing her heroes as a child from the Hardly Strictly grass with her dad. And getting offered a pot brownie while at the festival with her mom.

“Your mom brought you all the way here just to offer you a pot brownie?,” banjoist Kyle Tuttle (no relation) asked incredulously and jokingly.

Playing high-energy, traditional-yet-modern bluegrass, the quintet offered a highly-apropos “White Rabbit” for the San Francisco audience; “San Francisco Blues,” meanwhile, was Tuttle’s waltzing paean to the hometown she left for Tennessee. “Down Home Dispensary” and “Dooley’s Farm” were Tuttle’s amped-up homages to ganja.

She doffed her wig for “Crooked Tree,” a song about what makes Tuttle, who has alopecia, and San Francisco, different - and so very special. Golden Highway received a rousing standing ovation at the end of their 55-minute set.

Sleater-Kinney provided the pre-show soundtrack to Cat Power Sings Dylan ’66 as their kinetic Swan-stage set flooded the field in front of Towers of Gold.

Immediately following their set, Power was barely audible as she sung “She Belongs to Me.” Power was like a whispering specter, guitar and harmonica nearly inaudible, causing Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites to give up after a few songs only to find excellent sound at the Swan, where “It’s All over Now, Baby Blue” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” were as clear as bells behind where the music was being played.

A half-hour later, the strains of the full-band “Ballad of a Thin Man” could be heard a mile away on the JFK Promenade as Power wrapped her set.

10/5/24

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Brennen Leigh - The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen - 30th January 2023

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Brennen Leigh

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Today I was listening to Brennen Leigh's new single and was blown away as always. From her song smithing to voice and production on this one, dang it’s great. Photograph from the days of outside social distancing. I used my telephoto lenses a lot that year. Didn’t love 2020, but I loved this shoot.

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Brennen Leigh’s Heart-Tugging Honky-Tonk

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Brennen Leigh - Pipeline

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Top 25 Albums for AMA's 25th Anniversary Year

Top 25 Albums for AMA's 25th Anniversary Year @springsteen @tompettyofficial @hurrayfortheriffraff @ryanbinghamofficial @americanaquarium @adiavictoria @jasonisbell @brennenleigh @waxa_katie @johnnycash @lucinda_williams @lukasnelsonofficial @americana_andy_ @songsohia @brandicarlile @chrisstapleton @johnny_blue_skies1 @ryanadams @gillianwelchofficial @timmytychilders @ournativedaughters @john_prine @allisonrussellmusic @bigthiefmusic @drivebytruckers @amerianahighways #americanahighways #americanamusic #top25albums

Top 25 Albums for AMA’s 25th Anniversary Year 25 years ago, spurred by conversations that took place at South by Southwest in Austin, the Americana Music Association became a reality. In September 2000, the nascent organization held its first conference in Nashville. Two years later, the Americana Honors and Awards came into being. As the Association celebrates its 25th anniversary at this…

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#BrennenLeigh Running Out Of Hope, Arkansas

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Brennen Leigh & High Plains Jamboree - Equiblues festival - France

Une belle et talentueuse  artiste qui fera ses débuts au Grand Ole Opry le 24  Juin. Nous avons eut le plaisir de la voir sur Equiblues.

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May Summary (Albums)

I listened to a lot of Music in May, and now I am going to try and deduce the standouts. I will also include playlists to the music I found interesting but didn't finish, the albums that I listened all the way through to, and even a playlist of albums I hard dropped. I add this last playlist in case anyone would like me to reconsider some of the albums I did not have a preference for.

That said, let's find the best albums of May:

My Favorite: Carry Me Home - Mavis Staples, Levon Helm

How can you not? The great vocalist, the great drummer. Seems to foreshadow where we are now. This version of the last time takes a bog standard Stones number and makes it really low down and blue.

Best Country/Western (Best Live Show): Fire on the Ride - Jenny Don't and the Spurs

I saw them play a show with like twenty people in the audience. It went late, like late late because the sound guy kept trying to perfect sound in a barbecue joint. Here's a tip: if there are twenty people you don't need to mic every drum. We'll hear them. I just like western music, and this was a hard choice because Miranda Lambert's Palomino is up there, as is Brennen Leigh + Asleep at the Wheel's Obsessed with the West. But I got to give it to a band that put on a great show at a late hour.

Best Rap/Hip Hop: Street Profit - Stardom

The big news of course was Kendrick's album, which made my top list, but on reflection I found the concept and play of this one more interesting.

Best Blues/Rock: You Broke Me - Ghost Hounds

How do you play the blues (with a little rock and roll for spice?) This way.

Best Throwback: A Decade of Steely Dan - Steely Dan

Do you all not know a lot about Steely Dan?

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Brennen Leigh - The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen - 30th January 2023