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NEW MUSIC: Kora Feder – Dance With Me

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

This is just the kind of folk voice we fall for. The mix of ache and vulnerability, offset with a spirit and strength. There’s a wonderful lilting melody line that threads through ‘Dance With Me’, taken from Kora Feder‘s new album In Sevens which was released last week. There’s a sweetness to the song, as … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / New Music / Videos

NEW MUSIC: Sean McMahon – Outsider Blues

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Sean McMahon‘s new album You Will Know When You’re There is out now and it’s a superb record. We’ve had it on high rotation of late – soundtracking road trips, lazy Sunday mornings and dimly-lit late nights. One of the highlights is ‘Outsider Blues’, a track that is built on a beautiful blend of acoustic instruments … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Brad Armstrong – Brother Ford

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Brad Armstrong comes at you from an otherworldly place – a ramshackle outpost town at the end of the railroad line, a rattlesnake hander on a desert bender. It’s all old-world aesthetic with wailing fiddle, primitive percussion and a great line in storytelling on ‘Brother Ford’. It reminds me of the fire and brimstone style … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / Folk / New Music / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Tommy Alexander – Rejection

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

We love a track where the instant the singer sings their first note they’ve got your full attention. Tommy Alexander does that for us with this new track ‘Rejection’. He keeps things super simple with a measured vocal delivery that hangs meaning on every line. “Rejection is the hardest thing” he sings before a forlorn … Continue reading →

Americana / Country / New Music / Soul / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Kendall Elise – Valentine Street

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

New Zealand songwriter Kendall Elise has released this new single ‘Valentine Street’ ahead of the release of her debut solo LP Red Earth. It’s a mature and classic country sound with a dash of jazz thrown into the fabric of the song. Elise has a really great vocal style, a mix of smooth honky tonk … Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Alt-Country / Americana / Folk / New Music / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Emily Fairlight – Body Below

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds

Emily Fairlight is a New Zealand songwriter who’s based in Dunedin but has spent time in Australia and India during her formative years. ‘Body Below’ is the opening track from her new LP Mother Of Gloom, a warm and intimate set of songs that highlight her ability to find shadowy moods in her music and … Continue reading →

Americana / Folk / New Music / Psychedelic / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Wyndham – Spark

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Wyndham Garnett is a multi-instrumentalist, singer songwriter, producer currently living in Los Angeles. He is a founding member of the group Elvis Perkins in Dearland and a former touring member of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and ‘Spark’ is the quite wonderful first taste of his new seven track album/EP Fistful Of Stars which is set … Continue reading →

Country / New Music / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Nicholas Mudd

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Nicholas Mudd hails from Kentucky but is now based in LA and he’s set to release his debut self-titled album on April 12th. Here are two tracks from it – ‘Sailing Song’ and ‘High Lonesome’. Both tracks showcase Mudd’s way with an austere country song, framed in fingerpicked acoustic guitar, weeping pedal steel, a melancholic … Continue reading →

Bluegrass / Folk / New Music / Videos

NEW MUSIC: Late For The Train – Blue

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

I like the plaintive, spacious sound on this new track and clip from old time/bluegrass Same Francisco-based band Late For The Train. They draw this song out into a beautiful meditation on emotion and the colour blue. It’s bound together with the wonderful vocal interplay and fine fiddle playing from Laura Benson, especially at the … Continue reading →

Country / New Music / Soul / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Kimmi Bitter – When You Lose

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

We’re digging this slice of melancholic 60s country pop from San Diego native Kimmi Bitter. It comes from her recently released EP West Side Twang which drapes her country songs in weeping pedal steel, shuffling drums and some wonderful backing vocals. Despite the melancholy, the song and the EP in general have a certain sweet … Continue reading →

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NEW MUSIC: Ben McLaughlin – Lie To You

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Some sweet country soul this morning from Omaha, NE with Ben McLaughlin cutting a breezy and melodic strain of Americana on ‘Lie To You’. The way he reaches high into falsetto at the start of the chorus is a nice surprise and a clever twist which breaks up the loping groove through the verses. Strong and … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / Country / New Music / Rock / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Company Of Others – Diminishing Returns

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Company Of Others is a Nashville, TN trio comprised of singer / songwriter Billy Campbell with Parker Van Der Hyde on bass and Daniel Sauls on drums. It looks like this is the first single they’ve thrown out into the public sphere, and it’s a good one too, mixing alt-country, country-rock and a heartland vibe courtesy of … Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Alt-Country / Americana / Country / New Music / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Trevor Stott

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Trevor Stott recently released his debut album Halfway In The Night and two of the standout songs on it are the title track and ‘Carry My Soul’, both of which you can listen to below. Stott is from St. George, Utah. Outside of that we don’t know much else about him, other than he’s clearly … Continue reading →

Blues / New Music / Psychedelic / Rock / Videos

NEW MUSIC: John Dear – Drugstore Cowboy

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Something a bit different today, this track ‘Drugstore Cowboy’ from Swiss duo John Dear and drummer Alma June. It’s a howling stomper, a mix of the urban angst and hollering backwoods blues. There are shades of The Black Keys in their sound which isn’t afraid to get noisey and raucous with heavily reverted guitars and … Continue reading →

Americana / Folk / New Music / Videos

NEW MUSIC: Black Belt Eagle Scout – Indians Never Die

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Doubtful Sounds • 1 Comment

Here’s a new video clip for the track ‘Indians Never Die’, from Black Belt Eagle Scout, the name that Katherine Paul records under. She hails from the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in what is now known as Washington State and this song comes from her debut LP Mother Of My Children which was released in September … Continue reading →

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