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Listen to MP3: When My Time Comes – Dawes
Listen to MP3: Still My Girl To Me – Dawes
Listen to MP3: Give Me Time – Dawes
Dawes comes from North Hills, California. Two members, Taylor Goldsmith and Wylie Gelber were originally from the band Simon Dawes. They branched off, now playing with Griffin Goldsmith and Alex Casnoff to compile Americana/Soul music in the band Dawes.
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Listen at Last.fm: The Moondoggies
There is a popular chapter of American mythology that pertains to The Highway. It tells of a two-way ribbon of blacktop running endlessly through our past to our future, linking city to country, offering escape and motion and freedom to travel anywhere the imagination might wander. In this chapter, The Highway is both means and end, metaphor and reality.
And down that mythical Highway there is a Bar. Inside that Bar is a Stage. On that Stage is a Band. That Band is the Moondoggies.
The Moondoggies are a four-piece band from Seattle that plays timeless American music. Warm three-part harmonies, gothic Rhodes organ, and wanderlust guitar mark a sound rooted in boogie blues and cosmic country; whip-smart songwriting leads to hook-heavy tunes that bristle with originality. Led by 22-year-old singer/guitarist Kevin Murphy, the Moondoggies are intent on artistic balance. They’re a serious band with a silly name. They play music that speaks of travel but is strongly connected to its place of origin. They’re young musicians continuing a legacy that goes back generations. Songs that unravel over seven sinuous minutes are somehow catchy and compact.
Murphy and his band mates—Robert Terreberry on bass, Carl Dahlen on drums, and Caleb Quick on keys—started making music together as teenagers (all but Quick graduated from Cascade High in Everett, a Seattle suburb).
Listen to MP3: All The Boys - The Romany Rye
The Romany Rye is a philosophical adventure novel written by George Barrows that follows the journey of a learned young man thrown in with a band of gypsies. It’s also the moniker used for singer/songwriter Luke MacMaster’s latest full-band project. Their 8-song debut, Highway 1, Look Back Carefully, is a piece of breezy Americana that falls somewhere between the solo work of Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals.
And speaking of Adams, if you’re in a bit of withdrawal from his musical sabbatical, then let The Romany Rye nurse you through the low times.Highway 1 will remind you of Ryan Adams’ alt-country exploits like Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights. It may only be eight tracks deep, but you won’t find a weak spot. “Long Way Down,” “Black Hair,” “All The Boys,” and the My Morning Jacket-inspired “Brother” are standouts.
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