New and Noteworthy
recent releases of interest
Cotton Shirt
Monica Taylor
(self)
Monica Taylor has been a featured guest artist on A Prairie Home Companion and is a long-familiar voice in Oklahoma's Red Dirt community of musicians. "Cotton Shirt" is a worthy and welcome addition to the Red Dirt catalogue, featuring her own compositions and first-rate covers of Red Dirt classics.
Highly Recommended
Road U.S. 75
Lata Gouveia
(Captiva)
Groove-laden, richly layered and literate. Gouveia, a Brit, & J. J. Cale devotee, wrote all songs, played all instruments
and sang all vocals,
with two notable exceptions:
“Empty Station” features Tulsans
Dustin Pittsley, Jesse Aycock, & Rocky Frisco.
“Light Years Away” was recorded in Portugal with a similarly talented crew.
Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Slaid Cleaves
(Music Road)
Easily his best work since his
2000 release “Broke Down”.
The tone here is elegiac,
the sound is intimate. He seems to be sitting very near you.
Sad stories well-told over
spare arrangements.
Highly recommended
Selma Chalk
Jeff and Vida
(Rosebank)
The New York Times says it best:
“Jeff & Vida make music that is real and true.
Theirs are the songs you long to hear late at night
on the interstate, in poolhalls and smoky whiskey bars.”
Ditto. Selma Chalk is a worthy addition to their gritty, virtuosic, deeply rootsy body of work.
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