The Dead Weather “Sea of Cowards” May 2010; Third Man Records By Emily J Ramey Click Here to See the Published Version on American Music Channel The Dead Weather is something of an accidental band, blooming into life not as a pretty flower might bloom, but perhaps a mushroom explosion from an atomic bomb, or [...]
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The Dead Weather’s “Sea of Cowards” Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Local Nashville, tagged album review, alison mosshart, blue blood blues, blues rock, dean fertita, die by the drop, emily j ramey, horehound, hustle and cuss, jack lawrence, jack white, nashville, queens of the stone age, sea of cowards, the dead weather, the kills, the raconteurs, the white stripes, third man records on 15 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Moon Taxi in the Studio
Posted in Favorites, Local Nashville, Photography, tagged 12th south records, album, emily j ramey, live ride, moon taxi, nashville, photos, recording, spencer thomson, studio, tommy putnam, trevor terndrup, tyler ritter, warner brothers, wes bailey on 15 February 2010 | 1 Comment »
Regionally successful rock band Moon Taxi (a band that I am close to and whose success I am invested in, if you haven’t noticed already) took a day out of their busy touring schedule to begin recording tracks for a third full length album (second studio album). The band generously allowed me to join them [...]
Moon Taxi New Years at Exit/In
Posted in Favorites, Local Nashville, Photography, tagged emily j ramey, exit/in, joey troup, moon taxi, nashville, new years, new years eve, pictures, spencer thomson, tommy putnam, trevor terndrup, tyler ritter, wes bailey on 7 January 2010 | 2 Comments »
The band Moon Taxi, a favorite of mine, hosted a New Years Eve show at Exit/In here in Nashville. I bought my tickets in October; there was no way I was going to miss such a fabulous party. And as expected, not only did they go all out on a riotous live show, but they [...]
Sage Keffer Article
Posted in Feature Articles, Local Nashville, tagged American Music Channel, cma fan fest, cmt, colorado, country music, emily j ramey, Local Nashville, nashville star, rules of the game, running wild with ted nugent, sage keffer, singer-songwriter, ted nugent on 13 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Burning Up Nashville” with Sage Keffer By Emily J Ramey Click Here to See the Published Version on American Music Channel Sage Keffer is excited about country music. And I’m not just talking about looking forward to getting a hit song on the radio, or enthusiastic about his upcoming album, or optimistic that the CMT [...]
Landon Pigg’s “The Boy Who Never” Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Local Nashville, tagged acoustic, album review, emily j ramey, falling in love at a coffee shop, folk, landon pigg, Local Nashville, piano, pop, rca records, rock, singer-songwriter, speak to the keys, take a chance, the boy who never on 12 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Landon Pigg “The Boy Who Never” September 2009; RCA Records By Emily J Ramey Landon Pigg is the archetype of good singer/songwriter, folksy and eloquent, sentimental and warm. And his second full-length album, The Boy Who Never, is the perfect soundtrack for a cool, wind-whipped, burnt orange autumn, which to me, always seems an ideal [...]
Chuck Cannon’s “Love and Money” Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Local Nashville, tagged album review, chuck cannon, chuck jones, country, daddy and the devil, emily j ramey, lari white, Local Nashville, love and money, money don't matter, nashville underground, singer-songwriter, walkaway on 8 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chuck Cannon “Love and Money” February 2008; Nashville Underground Records By Emily J Ramey Click Here to See the Published Version on American Music Channel Chuck Cannon has been successful in every way a songwriter aspires to be successful. He has a beautiful wife and three lovely children, a home outside Nashville, countless hit songs, [...]
Steve Moakler’s “All the Faint Lights” Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Local Nashville, tagged acoustic folk, album review, all the faint lights, andy davis, belmont, emily j ramey, Local Nashville, slow mo, songwriter, steve moakler, true like your name on 1 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Moakler “All the Faint Lights” September 2009; Independent By Emily J Ramey Click Here to See the Published Version on American Music Channel Steve Moakler is one of those new artists that has absolutely everything it takes to make it. His clear, dulcet vocals, mellow rock instrumentation, and sweet blended acoustic harmonies put him [...]
The Delta Saints’ “Pray On EP” Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Favorites, Local Nashville, tagged album review, belmont, ben azzi, ben ringel, blues rock, david supica, ep, greg hommert, i feel rain, john shaw, Local Nashville, momma, pray on, steppin, the delta saints on 29 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Delta Saints “Pray On EP” September 2009; Independent By Emily J Ramey Click Here to See the Published Version on American Music Channel For nearly a year, all I’ve heard from people talking about The Delta Saints is that they want a recording. But they don’t just want it, they’ve been nearly begging. Despite [...]
The Apache Relay’s “1988″ Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Local Nashville, tagged album review, americana, apache relay, blue eyes, bluegrass, emily j ramey, folk, Local Nashville, magnolia street heartbreaker, michael ford jr, michael ford jr and the apache relay, the hollywood ten on 28 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Ford, Jr. & The Apache Relay “1988” September 2009; Independent By Emily J Ramey Click Here to See the Published Version on American Music Channel Sometimes it’s difficult to begin listening to a new artist, especially if that artist is new on the scene as opposed to just new to you, and sometimes side [...]
Moon Taxi Article
Posted in Favorites, Feature Articles, Local Nashville, tagged 12th and porter, 12th south records, American Music Channel, belmont, common ground, emily j ramey, gimme a light, govt mule, lightning 100, live album, local nashville band, melodica, moon taxi, morningtime, mustang, nashville, the new mastersounds on 13 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Onward and Upward and to the Moon” with Moon Taxi By Emily J Ramey Click Here to See the Published Version on American Music Channel With the word “songwriter,” a lot of people will conjure images of a guy in a collared shirt strumming an acoustic guitar and crooning melancholy ballads, or scribbling lyrics on [...]
