Last Summer, we teamed up with the fine folks at the Red Wing Music Festival to film the Hot Can Sessions with some of our favorite bands. Look for other performances from Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, the Wood Brothers, I Draw Slow, the Steel Wheels, and many more.
Third up to bat from Red Wing, we have Cahalen Morrison & Eli West. The Seattle duo marries old-time and right now in their music, including these renderings of "Down in the Lonesome Draw" and "James Is Out."
Live from the Red Wing Roots Festival in Mt. Solon, Virginia. This year's festival takes place on July 8-10 with a line-up that includes Dawes, Shovels & Rope, the Lone Bellow, Aoife O'Donovan, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, among others.
Directed and edited by Brent Finnegan. Live sound recorded by Blue Sprocket Sound
Last Summer, we teamed up with the fine folks at the Red Wing Music Festival to film the Hot Can Sessions with some of our favorite bands. Look for other performances from Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, the Wood Brothers, and many more.
In the second video, I Draw Slow takes to both the peaks and the valleys with their renderings of "Goldmine" and "Carolina," the latter of which finds the band stepping back to make space for Louise and Dave Holden to really lean into it.
Live from the Red Wing Roots Festival in Mt. Solon, Virginia. This year's festival takes place on July 8-10 with a line-up that includes Dawes, Shovels & Rope, the Lone Bellow, Aoife O'Donovan, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, among others.
Directed and edited by Brent Finnegan. Live sound recorded by Blue Sprocket Sound
Last Summer, we teamed up with the fine folks at the Red Wing Music Festival to film the Hot Can Sessions with some of our favorite bands. Look for upcoming performances from I Draw Slow, the Wood Brothers, and many more.
In the first installment, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen don't waste any time getting down to business with "Betrayal" and "Cold Spell." Solivan's soulful vocals and the band's deft picking make these two videos a delight to watch.
Live from the Red Wing Roots Festival in Mt. Solon, Virginia. This year's festival takes place on July 8-10 with a line-up that includes Dawes, Shovels & Rope, the Lone Bellow, Aoife O'Donovan, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, among others.
Directed and edited by Brent Finnegan. Live sound recorded by Blue Sprocket Sound
In this Sitch Session, guitarist Tom Rodwell highlights his love for calypso and soca music which originates in the Caribbean with a cover of Lord Kitchener's "Sugar Bum Bum." Though the original rendition features the lively percussion and horns normally associated with Caribbean music, Rodwell honors the tradition with a certain reverence befitting its heritage.
For more insight into Rodwell's musical history, check out this BGS interview:
Produced by Small Medium Large Productions.
When it comes to pickin' and fiddlin', few string bands do it better than Town Mountain … even in the Southern California heat! For their Sitch Session, the Carolina boys chose "Comin' Back to You," a tune from their upcoming album, Southern Crescent, which recently premiered on the BGS.
Front man Robert Greer says the song is "about traveling and being away from the one you love." But rather than make it a typical woe-is-me weaper, "I thought it appropriate to arrange mine more upbeat boogie woogie, because I love being on the road,” Greer confesses.
Shot and produced by Small Medium Large Productions in Los Angeles, CA
BGS has partnered with American-made microphone company Ear Trumpet Labs (ETL) for the Portland Series which features ETL’s handcrafted microphones alongside some of Americana’s most acclaimed artists. ETL’s microphones are the brainchild of Philip Graham, who strived to create a unique product that was both visually and aurally stunning, delivering studio quality sound in a live setting, which is exemplified in the video series.
Though she’s released three records since, Portland-based singer/songwriter Laura Veirs looks back to the title track of her 2010 album for this performance. The imagery is a perfect pairing for the scenic setting. “July flame — ashes of a secret heart falling in my lemonade,” she sings. “Unslakable thirsting in the backyard … Can I call you mine?”
Looking forward, Veirs has teamed up with k.d. lang and Neko Case for the case/lang/veirs album which is slated for release in June.
Be sure to catch all of the Portland Series videos and vote on your favorite for a chance to win an ETL microphone.
Filmed in Portland, Oregon, in association with EAR TRUMPET LABS
BGS has partnered with American-made microphone company Ear Trumpet Labs (ETL) for the Portland Series which features ETL’s handcrafted microphones alongside some of Americana’s most acclaimed artists. ETL’s microphones are the brainchild of Philip Graham, who strived to create a unique product that was both visually and aurally stunning, delivering studio quality sound in a live setting, which is exemplified in the video series.
American songster Dom Flemons takes to a “treehouse” for his feisty rendition of “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad.” Brian Farrow accompanies Flemons on fiddle, and the two really lay into the old traditional that has been done up by everyone from Woody Guthrie to Elizabeth Cotten to Bill Monroe to the Grateful Dead. Flemons and Farrow don’t do all of the tune’s verses, leaving room for them to swap runs on the harmonica and fiddle.
Be sure to catch all of the Portland Series videos and vote on your favorite for a chance to win an ETL microphone.
Filmed in Portland, Oregon, in association with EAR TRUMPET LABS
Long-time BGS fave Langhorne Slim has been riding high for the past year or so thanks to a couple of his songs finding their way into commercials and films. But he'll never be too big to hang out on a downtown L.A. rooftop and sing for us, though. Sporting one of his trademark lids, Slim offered up "Lion Like You," a brand new (and as-yet-unreleased) tune. "I'll take it slow, but it's hard to do when you're a lion like me hunting a lion like you," Slim confesses in the song. "You got the hands that I want to hold. You light the rooms to the house of my soul."
Live from the Los Angeles Flower District. Directed and edited by Richard Downie.
BGS has partnered with American-made microphone company Ear Trumpet Labs (ETL) for the Portland Series which features ETL’s handcrafted microphones alongside some of Americana’s most acclaimed artists. ETL’s microphones are the brainchild of Philip Graham, who strived to create a unique product that was both visually and aurally stunning, delivering studio quality sound in a live setting, which is exemplified in the video series.
Reflecting the tender lilt of her melody, a gentle smile makes its way across Annalisa Tornfelt's face as the sun streams down on her Portland Series Sitch Session. The brightness of the day — and the smile — stands in contrast to the sentiment of the song. "One is the day I begin counting. Two is for two eyes — I know how they say goodbye. Three is a sad thought I will never tell you," she sings, ticking off the numbers of her heartbreak, one at a time, in "Riddle Me This," off her latest album, The Number 8.
Be sure to catch all of the Portland Series videos and vote on your favorite for a chance to win an ETL microphone.
Filmed in Portland, Oregon, in association with EAR TRUMPET LABS.
The Steel Wheels recently popped into McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California, for a resonator-driven performance of "Heaven Don't Come by Here" surrounded by walls full of guitars. "Born with a name, but no name to say, 'cause heaven don't come by here," they sing to lay out the case, before defiantly insisting, "Don't bring your flowers; nothing here grows. Don't bring your flowers like you didn't know. Don't bring your flowers anymore." It's a potent plea, passionately delivered and worthy of inclusion among the classics of the form.
Shot and edited by Angela Wood for Small Medium Large Productions.
