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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – The Bros. Landreth

The Bros. Landreth
Let It Be

Release Date:
8 June 2015

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“Leave it to a group of Canadians to dish up some of the best Southern-style blues we wolfed down all weekend. … a quiet storm of slide guitar solos, blue notes, three-part harmonies …”. 
Rolling Stone: 20 Best Things We Saw at Americana Music Fest 2014

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Anchored by the bluesy wail of electric guitars, the swell of B3 organ, and the har- monized swoon of two voices that were born to mesh. At first listen, you might call it Americana. Dig deeper, though, and you’ll hear the nuances that separate The Bros. Landreth — whose members didn’t grow up in the American south, but rather the iso- lated prairie city of Winnipeg, Manitoba — from their folksy friends in the Lower 48.

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Bhi Bhiman

Bhi Bhiman

Rhythm & Reason

Release Date:
01 June 2015

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Hailed by Robert Christgau for NPR All Things Considered as a “penetrating melodist, accomplished guitarist and striking singer,” Bhiman uses his own upbringing as the son of immigrants as a central theme for the album’s 10 original songs. With production by Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter), Bhiman deploys bold language and sonic sparks – from richly arranged strings and woodwinds to a literal gunshot – on Rhythm & Reason, all anchored by his most powerful instrument, his unmistakeable tenor hailed as “full-bodied and brawny but delicate” by the New York Times.

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Bhiman balances the subversive with the sensitive on Rhythm & Reason, drawing inspiration in equal measure from Richard Pryor and Curtis Mayfield for their keen observations, their biting commentary and their humanity. Opener “Moving to Brussels” sets the tone for the album in the form of an immigrant’s Dear John letter to his former dictator; “Waterboarded in Love” details an interrogation by a jealous love; and “Up In Arms” recounts Black Panther Huey Newton’s fall from prominence

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Van Hunt

 

Van Hunt
The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets 

Release Date:
18 May 2015

This album is intimate, raw, and funky. It is the history of black American music filtered through modern technology. Full of African rhythms, blues, and funk, it also has contem- porary components often found in the music of St. Vincent, James Blake, Dev Hynes, and FKA Twigs.

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“The Fun Rises” represents the gritty side of the album, and “The Fun Sets” is the softer side of things. Headroom and If I Wanna Dance With You, both heavy piano ballads, have a vocal urgency reminiscent of modern hip-hop and R&B, while the orchestrations are pure early 70‘s Philadelphia soul. There are also French For Cloud (cstbu), a pure funk and soul track, and Vega (stripes on), which features the jangly guitars from Howlin’ Wolf records and closes with a short rhyme reminiscent of early Rae Kwon (Wu Tang Klan).

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Turbo Fruit

Turbo Fruit
No Control

Release Date:
20 April 2015

Emerging from a cloud of pot smoke as teenagers in 2007, Turbo Fruits have made their name with notoriously wild live shows and frenetic rock songs about girls, drugs and frying their brains. Their 4th and most self-aware album, No Control, still covers familiar themes but with a notably different perspective and remarkably strong songwriting. No Control arrives April 21st, 2015 as a co- release between their own label, Turbo Time, and Melvin Records/Thirty Tigers.
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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – St Paul & The Broken bones

 

St Paul & The Broken Bones
Live From The Alabama Theater

Release Date:
18 April 2015

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“A promising Muscle Shoals made debut. Blue eyed soul with a gritty bite.”
MOJO

“Old school soul with a perfect pedigree”
The Guardian

“A fusion of pulsating soul music and honest to goodness song writing, delivered with a passionate near religious fervour.”
Clash

“Best Soul Band”
Rolling Stones

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Scott Matthews

 

Scott Matthews
Mona (Birthday Mix)

Release Date:
30th March 2015

“Raw, beautiful and unrelenting” Wonderland

“A classy and original performer” Guardian

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Second single from the amazing 4th Album from Scott Matthews Home Part 1.

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Home part 1’, Scott Matthews’s fourth record, features eleven beautiful and personal tracks, following  the wonderful radio favourite ‘Sunlight’ Now comes the captivating new track ‘Mona’, which Scott remixed on his Birthday hence the title.  The Album was recorded at home in his custom made studio, the album was called a “gem” by the Daily Mail and “a beautifully produced acoustic melancholic collection” by the Sun, who both awarded it four stars.

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield

 

Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield
Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield sings Elliott Smith

Release Date:
16 March 2015

This record is an overall truth between two friends and, as is true with any covers-based album of quality, comes from a place of true admiration.  The album, produced by Seth Avett and recorded over the last three years at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC as well as at Avett’s and Mayfield’s homes, covers twelve Elliott Smith songs;
Both artists are currently known for their contributions to the indie folk rock landscape. The recordings are, in many cases, defined by bare instrumentation, driven by a simple yet bold vocal delivery, the depth of feeling complimenting that of the subject matter. This album is an obvious labour of love; a comment based on the genuine reverence which Avett and Mayfield clearly hold for Smith. At times, the songs feel light as a feather, while in others, thematically leaden with heartache, they are given a deep breath, a different dimension, a new colour. In modern fashion, melodies intensely whispered by Elliott Smith are sung in a harmonious way, akin to the folk aesthetic of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.
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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – The McCrary Sisters

 

 

The McCrary Sisters
Let’s Go

Release Date:
09 March 2015

The McCrary Sisters (Ann, Deborah, Regina and Alfreda) are the daughters of the late Rev. Samuel McCrary—one of the original members of the legendary gospel quartet The Fairfield Four. The daughters were raised in harmony, singing at home and at their father’s church, but word soon spread of their individual accomplished voices and each began sharing the family vocal legacy as solo artists with a wide range of performers to include Bob Dylan, Elvis, Isaac Hayes and Stevie Wonder.
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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – The Fairfiled Four

 

The Fairfield Four
Still Rockin’ My Soul

Release Date:
09 March 2015

Started in 1921 in the basement of The Fairfield Baptist Church in Nashville, TN, the group won a promotional contest that gave them a daily appearance on a national radio show for a decade. When radio died out, the fortunes of the group waned, but in a comeback in the 90’s, The Fairfield Four received numerous honors including two Grammy awards, a National Heritage Award, and an introduction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. This resurgence of support and recognition led to an appearance in the major motion picture and the corresponding soundtrack, “O Brother Where Art Thou”, awarding the group Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002.
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Garland Jeffreys Tour 2015

Garland Jeffreys returning to UK in Febuary 2015

Garland Jeffreys returns to the UK following his amazing, lively London show in 2014, for a run of dates in February 2015 including West Kensington, London’s venue Nell’s Jazz & Blues.  Jeffrey’s will be performing tunes from his acclaimed most recent album Truth Serum. Whilst in the UK,  he will also be recording the Johnnie Walker show on 22nd February

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truth Serum

Fifty years into his storied career, Garland Jeffreys is enjoying the kind of creative second wind most artists can only hope for the first time around, earning a swarm of critical accolades and experiencing his most prolific stretch in decades. ‘Truth Serum,’ his second album in two years, is a cri de cœur, a stripped-down tone poem from an artist taking his rightful and hard-earned place in the musical pantheon.

More than a dozen years had passed without an American album from Jeffreys when he came roaring back into the spotlight with 2011’s ‘The King of In Between.’ Hailed by NPR as “as good a classic roots rock record as you’re going to hear from anybody,” the record—which featured an appearance by old pal Lou Reed—earned raves from The New Yorker to USA Today and led to a performance on Letterman, as well as appearances onstage with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Levon Helm.

Written on guitar and demoed into a portable cassette player, working with the same core of musicians from ‘The King of In Between’—including Steve Jordan and Larry Campbell, along with Zev Katz, Duke Levine and Brian Mitchell.

The result is an album that stands among Jeffreys’ very finest. The record is a call to arms, a reflection on the world we live in and a vision of the world we owe it to ourselves to pursue. It’s the unvarnished declaration of a man whose time has come.

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