BIG THIEF Masterpiece (Saddle Creek) Brooklyn’s Big Thief take a hard look at love in all its devastation and ugliness onMasterpiece, their upcoming debut album for Saddle Creek. Due out May 27th, the LP finds the rising outfit specifically capturing “the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting them go, looking into your own eyes through someone else’s, and being okay with the inevitability of death,” says the band’s main songwriter Adrianne Lenker. Check out their website at www.bigthief.net
JOE BONAMASSA Blues Of Desperation (J&R Adventures) GRAMMY-nominated blues-rock guitar icon Joe Bonamassa evolves as a blues-rock musician with the highly-anticipated new album Blues of Desperation. Like his previous solo disc, 2014’s Top 10 Billboard hit Different Shades of Blue, this record features all-original material, and it sees the maverick superstar guitarist, singer and songwriter tossing away the rule book as he continues to reinvent and redefine the blues-rock genre like no other artist working today.”I want people to hear my evolution as a blues-rock musician,” says Bonamassa, “somebody who isn’t resting on accomplishments and who is always pushing forward and thinking about how music can evolve and stay relevant.”
Blues of Desperation is Bonamassa’s most powerfully diverse and boldly realized album yet, with the material ranging from the gutsy, gritty blues call to arms of “This Train” (Joe’s guitar is set to “rude” throughout) to the elegant yet emotionally shattering ballad “What I’ve Known for a Very Long Time” to the soul-nourishing, acoustic-based Americana of “The Valley Runs Low,” on which Bonamassa’s voice rises up majestically to meet Barnes, McRae and Tippins in gospel-like rapture. And then there’s the bleary, tequila-soaked “Drive,” dripping with the kind of raw, wicked and unsettling sensuality that could make David Lynch green with envy. Check out more at www.jbonamassa.com
PARKER MILLSAP The Very Last Day (Okrahoma/Thirty Tigers) The dynamic Oklahoma born singer songwriter’s anticipated sophomore release boldly showcases the growth in both Millsap’s arresting vocals and his thoughtful, intelligent songwriting. The Very Last Day is the anticipated follow-up to Parker Millsap’s eponymous 2014 release, which netted him high-profile praise from NPR, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and others, as well as a nomination for Americana Emerging Artist of the Year. Whether the 23-year-old is singing from the perspective of a convenience store robber haunted by his past, or as the King of the Underworld wild with passion, his character-driven songs mine deep wells of joy and despair to create gut-punching narratives that are sometimes hellish, sometimes heavenly, and always human. Check out more at www.parkermillsap.com
Check Parker’s Official Music Video for his song”Truck Stop Gospel” from his last album…
Also Available The Week Of March 25
BOB MOULD Patch The Sky (Merge)
CÉU Tropix (Six Degrees)
DAVINA AND THE VAGABONDS Nicollet And Tenth (independent)
HAROULA ROSE Here The Blue River (Little Bliss/Thirty Rigers)
JEFF HEALY Heal My Soul (first album of new material in 15 years) (Provogue)
LA SERA Music for Listening to Music To (produced by Ryan Adams) (Polyvinyl)
LEE HARVEY OSMOND Beautiful Scars (produced by Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins) (Latent Recordings)
LONTALIUS I’ll Forget 17 (Partisan Records)
MARGO PRICE Midwest Farmer’s Daughter (Third Man Records)
NIGHT MOVES Pennied Days (Domino Records)
THE JOY FORMIDABLE Hitch (C’mon Let’s Drift/Caroline)
THE RAGBIRDS The Threshold & The Hearth (Rock Ridge Music)
THE THERMALS We Disappear (Saddle Creek)
WHITE DENIM Stiff (Downtown)
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