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Back with a brand new album, he’s OK (which is apropos for a Americana, Blues and Roots music with a side order of boogie woogie and jazz fellow from Oklahoma), doing fine and making great music. lightly sprinkled in. The Beautiful Bones is her sixth album overall in a career that has garnered her acclaim throughout the country. David Vest has been playing piano for over sixty years from his Alabama youth to his years on the road with a decade in Portland and now settled on Vancouver With Raven Hotel, Matt Harlan has made a damn fine Texas record. Rich Island in British Columbia where he has been nominated for Canada’s Maple Brotherton, longtime Robert Earl Keen stalwart (and a man who knows a little Blues Awards on several occasions. His latest features some folks from the bit about Texas Music), produced this effort and has help from Texans like Bukka venerable institution known as Downchild. It’s a good ‘un. 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(503) 231-0876 / www.bdcdistribution.com 3 STREET DATE: May 20, 2014 (5% discount through May 27) BDCAMERICANA New Releases Maeve Gilchrist, 20 Chandler Street Thanks to a few centuries of stereotyping, most people think the harp is an ethereal instrument best strummed by winged angels atop fluffy clouds. But, in the hands of Maeve Gilchrist, the harp is anything but delicate background Cat: AMA 1085 2 music. With 20 Chandler Street, she proves just what a driving force the harp can be in its own right and within Label: Adventure Music a band. Produced by guitarist Roger Tallroth (of Swedish acoustic trio, Väsen), Gilchrist cut nearly the entire album America live with a core band that included Tallroth, fiddler Duncan Wickel, and bass player Aidan O’Donnell along with fid- UPC: 823421108526 dle virtuoso Darol Anger who guests on several tunes. This album draws listeners into vibrant new landscapes and Price: $10.40 soundscapes, using melody, harmony, and texture to create their own narratives as vividly as any storyteller. Home Base: Boston xiCDECBy10852qz Top Markets: National 8 2342-11085-2 6 Jeffrey Halford and the Healers, Rainmaker Jeffrey Halford delivers a uniquely American melting pot of roots, blues, rock, and kick-ass pop – take some Southern soul, add a heap of Texas storytelling, a dash of Bay Area’s freewheeling liberal spirit/literary Cat: 2445 leanings/seedier side, throw in some desert sunshine and dirt, then stir together with an architect’s eye for detail Label: Shoeless Records and durability and you’ve got yourself an idea why Paste magazine once named him to their “Ten Most Influential UPC: 888295059183 Artists of the Decade.” Halford, with the Healers, makes some of the best records today---A beautiful and dark jour- Price: $9.40 ney through America---Like a great vinyl record. Rainmaker is a perfect example of this. Home Base: SF Bay Area xiIICJFy05918nz Top Markets: West Coast, Texas 8 8829-50591-8 3 Matt Harlan, Raven Hotel Raven Hotel, the third CD from Matt Harlan, hangs together like a mural illustrating the urban images of daily life with pastoral reverence. Recorded in Austin, TX this collection marks a return to the sonic landscape Harlan Cat: BRK-10018 introduced with his debut album with Rich Brotherton (Robert Earl Keen) back in the producer’s chair. The literary Label: Berkalin Records threads that tied Harlan’s debut to his sophomore release, Bow and Be Simple, continue to twist throughout UPC: 845121072662 Raven Hotel, with stories that travel just as straight to the heart of matters via his characteristic observations and Price: $9.90 poetic minimalism. Home Base: Houston xiEFBCBy07266mz Top Markets: National 8 4512-10726-6 2 Libby Koch, Tennessee Colony Houston based, seventh generation Texan Libby Koch (pronounced “coke”) is a classic Texas Troubadour blend of Americana, country, folk, and rock, with influences from great artists such as Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Cat: BRK-10020 Williams, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch, and Dolly Parton. Libby’s previous project, The Grievous Angels, with fellow Label: Berkalin Records songwriters Lainey Balagia and Debbie Forrest won a Houston Press Music Award for Best Folk/Americana release. UPC: 700261400693 “Too country for country radio, Koch these days would get filed under folk, the same place you find too country for Price: $9.90 country folks such as Lucinda Williams. That’s country’s loss” - Houston Chronicle xhAACGBy40069nz Home Base: Houston Top Markets: Texas, NorthEast, South 7 0026-14006-9 3 BLUES Kelley Hunt, The Beautiful Bones Acclaimed Roots/R&B/Americana singer-songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist Kelley Hunt releases her most ambitious effort to date with The Beautiful Bones; a collection of 12 new songs written or co-written by Hunt. The album stylistically pays respectful reverence to the traditional influences of her artistic identity - the “beautiful bones” of her music while thematically urging a return of core truths and values in general. Backed by an all-star supporting cast including drummer Bryan Owings, guitarist John Jackson and the wondrous McCrary Sisters on Cat: EER1406 background vocals Hunt commands the effort with pyrotechnic vocals and her usual keyboard domination. Label: 88 Records UPC: 789577727328 Price: $9.90 Home Base: Kansas City/Lawrence Top Markets: National xhIJFHHy72732sz 7 8957-77273-2 8 (503) 231-0876 / www.bdcdistribution.com 4 STREET DATE: May 20, 2014 (5% discount through May 27) BDCBLUES New CONTINUED Releases Omar and the Howlers, Essential Collection The Essential Collection is a double CD release with one disc of 15 songs considered the best of Omar and the Howlers and a second disc of 15 of Omar’s personal favorites. This album was previously released worldwide by Ruf Records but is now available directly from Omar Dykes’ Big Guitar Records with a new UPC #. As Omar Cat: BGM #1301 himself writes, “The Omar & the Howlers Essential Collection includes songs that are considered my biggest hits Label: Big Guitar Music combined with songs that I believe to be some of my best work. The collection compiles my entire life’s career in UPC: 614511823227 the music industry: writing, recording, touring, and making the Blues rock for over five decades.” Price: $10.40 Home Base: Austin xgBEFBBy82322rz Top Markets: National 6 1451-18232-2 7 David Vest, Roadhouse Revelation David Vest is a fabulous foot-stompin’, house-rockin’ boogie-woogie piano player who can just as effortlessly play beautiful jazz and country blues ballads. Now a resident of Canada, Vest was born in Alabama in 1943, and grew up in Birmingham, not far from Tuxedo Junction. He played his first paying gig in 1957, and by the time he Cat: CBR-1182 opened for Roy Orbison on New Year’s Day 1962, he was a seasoned veteran of Gulf Coast roadhouses and honky Label: Cordova Bay Records tonks. These are the authentic, Southern-bred experiences that have inspired this album…and he has the stories UPC: 624481011821 to prove it. His nicely weathered, unpretentious voice perfectly complements his playing. Vest is backed by a top- Price: $10.40 notch band featuring the great Teddy Leonard (Fathead) on guitar, Gary Kendall (Downchild) on bass and Mike Fitzpatrick (Downchild) on drums.