By Ken Paulson —Ghost of Browder Holler is a striking new album by Chelle Rose, a Nashville-based singer and songwriter with roots in Appalachia. Songs like “Browder Holler Boy,” “Caney Fork Tennessee” and “Weepin’ Willow on the Hill” reflect those rustic origins but it also sounds like copies of Beggars’ Banquet and Let It Bleed made their way into the holler.…
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Sun209: The week in Tweets
Check out @tinpansouthfest, the pre-eminent songwriters fest. Great songs by the people who wrote them. http://t.co/eqhDVAQA # Review: @Charliefaye's fine "Travels with Charlie" #americana http://t.co/yIsPIfG8 # On @Americanafest chart: @LyleLovett at top, plus @justintearle, @raywylie @springsteen,@thesteelwheels http://t.co/jk5DvdUY #
Charting: Justin Townes Earle, Bruce Springsteen, Todd Snider
Lyle Lovett’s Release Me shot to the top of the Americana Music Association radio airplay chart, edging out Darrell Scott’s Long Ride Home by just seven spins. New to the chart: Justin Townes Earles’ Nothing’s Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now at #11, Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Grifter’s Hymnal at #22, Todd Snider’s Agnostic Hymns and Stoner…
Review: Charlie Faye’s “Travels with Charlie”
By Ken Paulson — Charlie Faye’s Travels with Charlie is built on a cool concept – residences in ten different cities for a month each, but it’s no travelogue. With the exception of the honky tonk song “Two-Timer” cut in Nashville with Chris Scruggs, Kenny Vaughan and Buddy Spicher, the songs don’t reflect their roots. What they do reflect is…