VIDEO PREMIERE: Sunset Stranger releases new pop-streaked cosmic country song/video

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Melbourne songwriter Sunset Stranger (Stephen E. Stanisic) has released the results of his latest trip to Rolling Stock Recording Rooms, under the guidance of producer Myles Mumford. ‘Prometheus Blues‘, out today via Bandcamp and streaming services, is an upbeat slice of kaleidoscopic folk, country and blues that dances lightly from the speakers. Guitars and dobro … Continue reading →

Americana / Cosmic Country / New Music / Psychedelic / Soul / Videos

KIMMI BITTER RELEASES THE BEAUTIFUL HAZY SLOW DANCE THAT IS ‘WESTERN SUN’

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Things get low-slung and dreamy on this sun-dappled new single from San Diego’s Kimmi Bitter. Taken from her forthcoming new album Highway Hustler, ‘Western Sun’ showcases Bitter’s cosmic West Coast take on traditional country and soul. There’s also a country-noir feel courtesy of the shimmer and shuffle of the music, the dark and ghostly twang … Continue reading →

Country / Jazz / New Music / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Melissa Carper – Back When

Posted on March 22, 2021 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Authenticity and originality are key ingredients in the country and folk music that catches our ears and Melissa Carper‘s songwriting and voice immediately caught our attention when we heard ‘Back When’. The song comes from her new album Daddy’s Country Gold (released last Friday), one of the finest vintage country albums we’ve heard so far … Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Alt-Country / Blues / Cosmic Country / Country / Southern Rock / Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Paul Cauthen – Room 41

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Paul Cauthen Room 41 Lightning Rod Records Out of misery and heartache comes great art. That seems to be one of the great recurring themes of all the artistic mediums. On his new solo album, Paul Cauthen has clearly lived and by the sound of it, learned from a particularly low period in his life … Continue reading →

Article / Features

Waitin’ Around To Die Column: Exploring The Guitar Frontier

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

EXPLORING THE GUITAR FRONTIER The guitar is synonymous with country and folk music, it’s the glue that ties it all together and has always been an essential songwriting and performing instrument in those genres. In the world of Americana music the guitar is also a medium for exploration and experimentation on the outer fringes of … Continue reading →

Album Reviews / Country / Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Kinky Friedman ~ The Loneliest Man I’ve Ever Met

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Doubtful Sounds • 2 Comments

Friedman, the author and provocateur, has also been a musician since the early 1970s and finally, after 39 years, he’s recorded a new studio album. It’s a mix of Friedman originals and a raft of covers including Merle Haggard’s ‘Mama’s Hungry Eyes’, Bob Dylan’s ‘Girl from the North Country’ and a duet with Willie Nelson … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / New Music / Videos

NEW MUSIC: Sarah Humphreys & Kris Morris ~ These Nights

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Doubtful Sounds • 1 Comment

Sarah Humphreys and Kris Morris are successful songwriters in their own right but now they’ve doubled the goodness by starting a collaborative project. They’re currently bunkered down recording their debut album as a duo and have shared one of the tracks that will the appearing on it – the beautiful heartache soaked ‘These Nights’. Continue reading →

Country / New Music / Stream

NEW MUSIC: Kinky Friedman & Willie Nelson ~ Bloody Mary Morning

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Doubtful Sounds • 2 Comments

Kinky Friedman has a new album called The Lonliest Man I Ever Met coming out on October 2nd via Avenue A Records/Thirty Tigers. It’s his first album of new material in 39 years believe it or not. The first track on it is this duet with Willie Nelson, kept stripped back and raw. Great guitar from Nelson … Continue reading →

Album Reviews / Country / Videos

ALBUM REVIEW: Catherine Britt ~ Boneshaker

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Drawing on a range of country styles from Americana to traditional, pop to rock, Catherine Britt has produced a strong collection of songs on her sixth album. The opening title track gets things off to a rollicking and raw start before the beautiful ache of the string-laden ‘Good To Be Bad’ slows things down. From there … Continue reading →

Americana / Country / New Music / Videos

VIDEO: Shelby Lynne ~ I Can’t Imagine

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Shelby Lynne’s new album I Can’t Imagine is due for release on May 5th via Rounder Records. You can pre-order the CD/LP/Digital (plus bundles with her remastered classic I Am Shelby Lynne album) HERE and in the meantime you can check out the great clip for the equally wonderful title track. Continue reading →

Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Alt-Country / Americana / Country / Rock

ALBUM REVIEW: Kasey Chambers ~ Bittersweet

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Kasey Chambers sits in that rare artistic position having sold 1.2 million albums as a hugely successful commercial songwriter/performer, while still retaining integrity and respect from the country and alt-country communities where she first established her talent. Bittersweet is Chambers’ first album since she split from husband Shane Nicholson after they released their 2011 collaborative … Continue reading →

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

NEW MUSIC: Wooden Wand ~ Farmer’s Corner

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

James Jackson Toth is a prolific songwriter and musician by anyone’s measure. Recording under a number of names and in collaboration with a range of other musicians such as Michael Gira (Swans), he seems most himself when operating as Wooden Wand. On his new album Farmer’s Corner (his 14th by our count) he brings one … Continue reading →

Alt-Country / Americana / Country / Home / Videos

Country Covers #5 – A Ramalama chooses a favourite

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Coming up on Sunday October 27th is an afternoon/evening of Sydney (and Newcastle) artists covering some of their favourite country songs plus they’ll play a few of their own. Inner Western 2 (FB Event) is happening at the Petersham Bowling Club from 2pm. Ahead of the show we’ve asked some of the artists appearing to choose a favourite … Continue reading →

Country / Videos

Country Covers #4 – Fanny Lumsden chooses a favourite

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Americana / Blues / Country / Folk / News

NEW MUSIC: A new collection of unreleased Townes Van Zandt recordings

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Doubtful Sounds • Leave a comment

Due for release on February 5th, Townes Van Zandt, Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos 1971-1972 (Omnivore Recordings, 2013) consists entirely of previously unreleased music from Van Zandt’s classic albums High, Low & In Between and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. Both albums were originally released in 1972 on the Poppy label. … Continue reading →