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Category: Alt-Country

  • The Gunshy – I Gave Too Much Time To The Wine

    and other collected eps. So received my shiny new CD from The Gunshy last week.  Didn’t you?  If you didn’t, do you have a worthy excuse?  Go on, explain yourself. The Gunshy’s “I Gave Too Much Time To The Wine and other collected eps” is the most recent release from the good folks over at…

  • Deer Tick – War Elephant (re-issue)

    So just a quick one today as I am just on the go (or something along those lines) and I apologize for not giving this release the full attention and praise it should get.  The Album is “War Elephant” from Deer Tick, a great release from last year that was just re-released 2 days ago…

  • A Western Vinyl Playlist

    Sorry for no post yesterday, but I have a big one today (and inspired by yesterday and no posting…). Well yesterday I received an advance copy of the new J. Tillman – Vacilando Territory Blues from an online friend.  This led me to immediately start an all encompassing listening fest of my own.  So, I…

  • Auld Lang Syne

    Auld Lang Syne can be a bit of a raucous band for the Slowcoustic regulars, but sometimes some of the best toned down music comes from more up tempo artists, simply at 3/4 speed.  If you think of the classic Auld Lang Syne (the New Year’s eve song after which they are named), they would…

  • Frontier Ruckus – The Orion Songbook (2008)

    I have been trying to hold back on this post for a couple of weeks until it was closer to the album’s release (I don’t know why), but I have to post already!  So here we have Frontier Ruckus’ first full length album and it has been well worth the wait.  Spectacular down home traditional…

  • Blackbird Harmony Revisited – with interview

    Well this is a bit of a treat this week on Slowcoustic – the interview post!  I was lucky enough to get some questions in with John Statz below and now I actually have a follow up to my Blackbird Harmony post (and sister post here) with, you guessed it – some interview questions!  Even…

  • John Statz

    John Statz

    I find myself in a bit of bounty of good music lately – I know, there are worse things, but it can be overwhelming.  You end up listening to soo much that it is hard to actually listen, I mean really listen.  This is why I am posting on John Statz – I had a…

  • Jeff Zentner – Hymns to the Darkness, and upcoming album alert.

    So we all know I can appreciate down-tempo music – whether it be indie, songwriter, Americana and yes even electronic.  When I get my hands on something good, whether it be by an suggestion from a friend, artist submission or found on another blog I will most likely latch on for keeps and try to…

  • Del Barber – “Where the City Ends”

    Okay I am not going to lie to you here…I am partial to Del Barber.  I have never met Del, or even spoken to him face to face, but alas I got this guys back.  Why you ask?  He is a good old ‘pegger! For those of you who are unaware of the term “pegger”,…

  • Chriss Sutherland – Who is this guy, no really?

    So I admit I am a bit late on this one….2007 release from Chriss Sutherland “Me in a ‘field’”.  I found it via a commenter on this blog (Time Fades Away Blog) and a post they had from this past January – they had posted “La Familia” from this album.  I, of course, immediately went…

  • Blackwood Hymnal has left us too soon…

    So I am sure you can figure out from the title of this post that this group had perished in a fiery tour bus crash in 2001…okay not really, they just have moved on to other things and are no longer recording.  Seriously though, was that last line not a start for an incredible blog…

  • If You Haven’t Heard – Blackbird Harmony

    So I am going to try and start a new feature here on the ol’ website/blog space, and I am thinking of calling it “If you haven’t heard”.  The title of the weekly installment will be followed by a band or artist name of the featured talent — not unlike the title of this post.…