16 Dec, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
This is how you imagine the pre-Christmas period: A walk in the snow, if someone would lie down, mulled wine, cookies – and from the boxes the soft country voice of Alan Jackson snows. Within a few bars it becomes cosy and solemn. Especially when Jackson unpacks...
5 Dec, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
Christmas time – that’s Country-Christmas time! At least for me. That’s why every week, until the Christkind comes on December 24th, I will present one of my song favorites of the season. It Won’t Be Christmas Without You” by Brooks &...
4 Nov, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
You don’t have to like the steam hammer disco sound of chic. But: The groove that the band around guitarist Nile Rogers and bassist Bernard Edwards instigated was unrivalled. Maybe even to this day. Rarely has one heard such a compelling drive, such a well-oiled...
29 Oct, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
What music can do. It can give you energy, it can supply you with adrenaline, it can calm you down or make you aggressive. And it can comfort you. Country star and super guitarist Vince Gill has released one of the most beautiful and touching consolations on the 2006...
15 Oct, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
The first chords of the acoustic guitar are still reminiscent of the Oasis classic “Wonderwall”. But that will soon be over. After a few more bars and the first verse of “Famous Last Words” the chorus lights up – and you think of the...
9 Sep, 2019 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
Admittedly, “Fooled Around And Fell In Love” is not really a rare pearl. The composition of Elvin Bishop was even a hit of several interpreters, last also of Rod Stewart. A far larger throw landed with the melodiösen classic however 1985 the Country Pop...
5 Sep, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
Who remembers the band Mr. Mister? With “Broken Wings” and “Kyrie” Richard Page and Steve George, the two heads behind Mr. Mister, had top hits worldwide. But as fast as the band showed up and conquered the charts, as fast they disappeared...
14 Aug, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
When Brad Paisley released the album “Mud On The Tires” in 2003, he was still quite far away from superstar status, his popularity as a CMA Awards host, Grammys and private jet. In the early 2000s, the smart guitarist and singer was still considered a...
1 Aug, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
Admittedly, “Tin Soldier” is not exactly what you might call a rare pearl. The song was a hit for the Small Faces, on Youtube almost six million watched their performance on French television. Those who see and hear the performance of the four Small Faces...
22 Jul, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
It’s strange, but the most sentimentalists and wimps are in the country. Hard shell, soft core – no other genre fits this slogan better. Keith Whitley has confirmed this in his unfortunately only very short career as outstandingly as tragically. An...
16 Jul, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
A good song always sounds good. Even without a big arrangement and without opulent accompaniment. A really good song sounds good even if it is performed with guitar and vocals only … …I was able to experience that in 2014 in a small club in Leiper’s...
13 Jul, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
Revel. From the first chord. Sad, longing. A guitar, a bass, organ, drums. Soulig, bluesy. Music for very, very late at night, for the time when time no longer plays a role. The chords may even be somehow ordinary, borrowed from the blues pattern, but the mood –...
12 Jul, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
Some songs take you on a journey. With just a few chords, takes you somewhere within a few bars: to a sunny beach, to a pulsating big city – or like here: to a shabby dive at the ass of the world … … into the “Hard Luck Café”. Keith...
12 Jul, 2019 | Jazz, Soul & Blues
Daydream? Bebel Gilberto invites you with her album of the same name, released in 2004. As the daughter of Bossa Nova star Joao Gilberto and singer Miucha, Isabel Gilberto de Oliveira, as Bebel is called, absorbed her Latino art with her mother’s milk....
11 Jul, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
That voice. A woman? A man? Clearly, that can’t be said when she finally appears after several bars at the song “Home” as if from far away. Joshua Hyslop, who owns this warm and unisexual voice, is a singer/songwriter from the Canadian prairie state...
10 Jul, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
A piano. Violins. A carried mood. A slender guy stands in the video in black jeans, black turtleneck sweater and a little too big Stetson in a church, in which the sunlight falls dramatically through coloured glass windows … … and Tim McGraw, that slim...
10 Jul, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
If you don’t know Tyler Childers – there are still far too many of them – and want to get an idea of the Kentucky-born singer and songwriter, you should think of a young, somewhat drunken Bob Dylan on a country trip … … … slim guy,...
9 Jul, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
Big songwriting. A few sentences, short and straightforward like Hemingway’s – and you’re all there with him. In the storyteller Tracy Lawrence. Although “Used To The Pain” serves typical country clichés – loneliness, highways, lost...
3 Jun, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
A very personal pearl: “When She Cries” by the country rock band Restless Heart. A formation, which was compared with the Eagles again and again with polyphonic singing and cuddly harmonies and had its great time in the 90s. But also: a band with...
