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Part of the point of AmericanaFest – and the showcases in particular – is to find some new people and bands who are producing good music, and also have new music coming out soon. Ben Jordan gave an excellent set in Night Tales, and he does indeed have a new album coming soon. Ben Jordan is an American singer-songwriter from Denver, Colorado but he currently resides in Bristol. That’s our Bristol, in the UK. Ben Jordan is a performing member of the Black Opry revue and as well as being a showcase artists he’s been a panellist at AMA-UK.
What about this new music though? Well, he recently finished recording a new album called ‘Hymns Beneath the White Noise‘, which was mixed by Jimbo Hart and it will be released this year. ‘El Dorado‘ is a first taste from the album, and uses the imagery of the legendary city of gold as a contrast to a reality of eating what one can catch and sleeping where one can. It has a timeless Americana feel to it, not unlike The Band, with the historical point of reference left to the listener to decide – is this today or a hundred years ago?
Keeping the music eclecticism of the ’70s alive in the 21st Century. You may not have heard of singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Alex Jordan who has just released his second solo album ‘Queen Kerosene’, though his debut was lost in the chaos of the pandemic, but Bob Weir, Phil…
Check out this live-in-the-studio recording of 'Reno' by Hannah Connolly. The song is taken from Connolly's recent album 'Shadowboxing', which is now available on white marble and clear vinyl here. Alongside Connolly, a host of talented musicians recorded the song at Idyllwild Music Recorders in California: Jordan Ruiz, Ben Greenberg,…
Currency of another coin. There's a new Nashville group on the scene and it could possibly be called a supergroup as it features friends Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billet. And they have "conjured sonic magic in an ancient abbey off the English coast" for the self…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
