Hey Americana Music Club

Tomorrow night at Valentine's: Blackwell Sinners and Michael Eck.

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The Blackwell Sinners are gnarly family harmony wailing.

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Michael Eck's latest album, In My Shoes, is a collection of folk songs about things like people and places. The album was recorded in one take at the WEXT studios. Pretty lo-fi, but laudable. You can see why that would be an attractive avenue for a songwriter on a budget. Or a guy who just didn't want to mess with mixing a bunch of textures. Or maybe just a guy who wanted to confront the silence. 

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Merry Xmas

Ramsay Midwood posted this one by Mike Nicolai. In spite of the cheeky title this one's a hit.

Christmas is for Losers

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Rusty Belle

Rusty Belle is a band from Western MA. They got mad flavor. And they'll be at Americana Tuesdays this January.

See also their alterincarnation The Vanity Pack. Wowza double boo-ya.

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NEWS FLASH

Dan Johnson and his Expert Sidemen to Begin Recording

This weekend the boys are going into Bender Studios in Delmar to start tracking an album of original songs with engineer Sten Isachsen. We're all pretty excited to get this one together. If you'd like to help us out with this project, send an email to americana.music.club.com or come down to Americana Tuesdays and let us know what you might be able to do to help us get this album off the ground.

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I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that.

-Woody Guthrie