Monday, July 21, 2008

Wild Sweet Orange: We Have Cause to Be Uneasy

Wild Sweet Orange
photo: David McClister

Wild Sweet Orange showed a lot of promise with their The Whale EP in 2007. Their full length We Have Cause to Be Uneasy lives up to the expectations. The band have drifted into Americana without losing their college rock attitude. It took them a couple of years with a busy touring schedule to get them were they are today: a solid band with a singer who is not afraid to get personal in his lyrics. Listen closely when you are playing this for your friends, sharing a nice supply of six-packs.

Wild Sweet Orange:
Preston Lovinggood: vocals, guitar
Chip Kilpatrick: drums
Taylor Shaw: guitar
Garret Kelly: bass

Wild Sweet Orange: We Have Cause to Be Uneasy

We Have Cause to Be Uneasy is released on Canvasback Music. Release date: July 29th.

Tracks:
  1. Ten Dead Dogs
  2. Tilt Seeing And Believing
  3. Either / Or
  4. Sour Milk
  5. An Atlas To Follow
  6. House Of Regret
  7. Crickets
  8. Aretha's Gold
  9. Night Terrors
  10. Land Of No Return
Live dates:
  • 07/26 Workplay, Birmingham, AL
  • 07/31 Ear Ecstasy (In-Store) - Louisville, KY
  • 08/01Crofoot, Pontiac, MI
  • 08/03 Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL
  • 08/04 Slowdown, Omaha, NE

MP3: Wild Sweet Orange - Ten Dead Dogs

» wildsweetmusic.com
» myspace.com/wildsweetorange

HCTF review of The Whale EP.

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Sonya Kitchell: This Storm

Sonya Kitchell: This Storm

When you get rave reviews in mainstream magazines such as Marie Claire and People who focus on music solely as a commodity playing unobtrusively in the background, you will have a hard time to gain entrance to the music geek world. American singer Sonya Kitchell was only 15 at the time that she was being slapped with tags as "the smokiness of Norah Jones" and "the soulfulness of Joss Stone". O, and Herbie Hancock took her under his wing soon after.

Her new album is called This Storm and that is a weird name for an album full of middle-of-the-road songs that go exactly nowhere. She might be a bit older now, and her voice has grown up with her, but her technique is so smooth that the words and notes fail to leave any lasting impression whatsoever. Incurable insomniacs only.

This Storm is released as a joint effort of Velour Music and Decca. Release date: September 2.

» sonyakitchell.com

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Words about music (185): Ron Wood

Ron Wood
It wasn't so much a question of being a wizard on the guitar. You also had to be a magician to be able to live with the Stones.

Ron Wood

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