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MORE GREAT VIDEO TO COME: All footage shot for the Outlaw Roadshow are the work of Ehud Lazin of SBG. It has been a joy to work with someone as passionate about new music and historic performances as we are. We want you to share Ehud’s videos to the world! Check out the SBG YouTube channel
Growing up in the heart of a music loving state like Texas, it would have been hard for acoustic singer songwriter Ryan Hamilton to avoid being exposed and eventually fall in love with music. Even as young as eight years old, whilst traveling in his Dad’s truck listening to John Cougar Mellencamp, the music bug had already bitten. Once he discovered The Eagles, with their unbelievable musicianship and vocal harmonies, the young Hamilton realized that music was a journey he wanted to take. There are so many remarkable things going on in these little pop songs. What is most inspiring about Ryan Hamilton’s music, really though – is the intangible. It’s this ability he has to convert a room of strangers into both fans and as friends, I’ve seen it happen, ” said Outlaw Roadshow creator Ryan Spaulding. “The Outlaw Roadshow is the perfect place for someone like Ryan. He’s steeped in his passion for music and so are our crowds.”
On his solo debut, Hell Of A Day (a Best of 2015 album selection), Hamilton steps out from his past and really prevails for it. “We tracked everything old school and live. No auto tune, or copying and pasting,” says Hamilton. “Real sounds and live performances. I can’t wait for people to hear these new songs!” The album is a new folk pop masterpiece steeped with story-telling lyrics that describe a landscape set from Hamilton’s cinematic mind. What you are about to see is Hamilton’s private session video recorded in our Garden set in Manhattan. He is surrounded by the artwork of painter Felipe Molina and plays a fiery, focused set of songs that will stay with you for a very long time. This is what it’s all about.
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Somewhere on the outskirts of reality, the denizens of that edge world need music. Soft and full of light, this place deserves someone like Buffalo Rodeo to play for them. Ethereal sounds echoing of early Pink Floyd stirred with the modern, rock quirk of Tame Impala – there is a perfect balance here. (Think Brian Jonestown Massacre without all that heaviness, a modern Moody Blues.) Their songs feel like rays of sunshine and the effects of listening can sustain long after the last note has sounded. About once or twice a year, I unexpectedly climb up on stage after a band’s set to publicly invite them to our next event (in whatever city it may be) based upon the power of their performance. That’s what happened with Buffalo Rodeo in Nashville. And returned to New York they did. The band played a huge set on stage at the Bowery Electric in New York City, captivating our audiences. This video performance was recorded the very same day. Feel the energy unfolding in these notes? We do. “A totally mesmerizing set; Buffalo Rodeo are set to explode!” says Outlaw founder Ryan Spaulding. “They are one of the best young bands in America today.”
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Andrews stopped time in Nashville this July in her first ever Outlaw Roadshow appearance. There in the country’s music capital for the better part of an hour, you could have heard a pin drop between the notes. In New York City last month the results were much the same but in many ways the “road win” was even more telling of her abilities and charm. Andrews has become one of contemporary music’s great treasures, something you’re all going to find out in New York City as Andrews fires off fresh songs from her unbelievable new album, The War Inside. “She did it again. We’re in NY during her performance. I finally broke out of my trance and looked around the room. And just like in Nashville, Jill had people’s jaws on the floor and their hearts on their sleeve. Absolute silence and pure affection for music!” said Outlaw Roadshow founder Ryan Spaulding. “Jill Andrews is gifted at music and so talented at reaching people in a human way. You need to see it and hear it for yourself to truly understand. She’s brilliant.” In the last few years Andrews’ work has reached international audiences via soldout live shows and an infusion of her songs in popular television. Chances are, you’ve heard Jill Andrews’ music and never even knew it. The songs on the new record are more than just a solid progression, this is total breakout material. Predicting you’re not going to want to miss this. On her latest,The War Inside, Jill Andrews shines a light on her own struggles and successes, tying the songs together with a new sound that mixes her folk background with a wider set of influences. The three songs in this Garden Session are all from the new record and are perhaps the best thing we’ve heard all year long..
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POETRY ROUSED TO LIFE – Alan Semerdjian’s work always seems to find its way to those who want a little more out of the music they let into their lives. Perhaps its his insistence on doing things his own way and staying true to his vision of the world, one informed by years of creating art, writing essays and poems, and teaching high school English in and around New York City.
Semergdjian’s latest, Quiet Songs for Loud Times is mixed by longtime friend and frequent collaborator Mike Bloom (The Elected, Rilo Kiley, Julian Casablancas), who has worked with Semerdjian on his previous two releases (2005‘s When There Was Something Wrong With You and 2009’s The Big Beauty), and features appearances by Aram Bajakian (Lou Reed, Diana Krall) on electric guitar, Chris Kuffner (Ingrid Michaelson) on bass, Dave Diamond (Assembly of Dust) on drums and percussion and Matt Iselin on piano and organ. The team succeeds at constructing a mature and artful intimacy that is consistent with Semerdjian’s distinct aesthetic while striking notes familiar in modern folk music, indie and art rock, and Americana traditions. The result is a stunningly beautiful album in both sound and sentiment, positioning Alan Semerdjian alongside some of the most ambitious and inventive songwriters working today.
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Although multi-instrumentalist songwriter Brandy Zdan calls her new, self-titled album her full-length “debut,” there’s no mistaking this seasoned performer for any kind of rookie. For the better part of the last decade, the native Canadian — now living in Nashville, TN— has garnered acclaim as half of the gothic folk/roots duo Twilight Hotel, with two albums, 2008’s Highway Prayer and 2011’s When the Wolves Go Blind, nominated for prestigious Juno Awards (Canada’s Grammy), as a formidable multi-instrumentalist (touring and recording with the Americana all-girl band the Trishas), and even as a solo artist (with LoneStarMusic hailing her 2013 Lone Hunter EP as “a one-woman tour de force.”) But according to the artist herself, all of that was merely a prelude to the aptly-titled Brandy Zdan, the most focused expression of her musical identity to date. “Ladies and Gentlemen, consider this video to be a primer in this extraordinary artist. She completely blew us away in New York City,” said Outlaw founder Ryan Spaulding. “And just you wait until you hear her full-length debut, possibly the best thing I’ve heard all year long. Remember the name Brandy Zdan!”
When Julie Rhodes lets her voice loose, she digs deep into a pocket of soul that persuades audiences to follow her lead. Just a year ago, Rhodes began work on her debut album, Bound to Meet the Devil. The songs speak to a year of travel, passion, and sacrifice, as she matured quickly from playing her first shows to a performer who owns the stage. Rhodes always set her resolve on music and the road. The day she was able, she charged out of her hometown, searching for live performances that tugged on her heart strings. But it wasn’t until she attended the Newport Folk Festival—witnessing a lineup with an infectious spirit for collaboration and a genuine optimism for the vitality of community—that her desire to travel shifted from pursuing other’s voices to discovering her own. Produced by Jonah Tolchin and infused with the sounds that inspired her to roam, Bound to Meet the Devil was recorded in New England and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, capturing the spirit found in dive bars, barns, and the throng of outdoor festivals by the sea. Her songs explore the mounting struggles of a working class woman with few riches beyond a determination to dream. In this session, recorded in New York City in the Fall, Julie Rhodes is accompanied by Scott Thompson (Tallahassee / INFJ.)
* Art featured in the session by painter Felipe Molina.
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