SB Olson Shares No More Trouble

As of late, my tastes have been bouncing all over the place, and that’s kind of where this SB Olson tune hit me. It’s got this little underhanded blues boogie to it; it’s that sort of crunchy barroom scoot that all my red dirt friends were super into during our college years. Plus, with Olson’s heavily warm vocals, you kind of get that sort of classic Americana feel, like one would get when listening to an M. Ward album. The North Dakota songwriter just seems to be writing hit after hit at the moment, so if you’re so inclined, you might want to stop in and give his catalog a little look-see. This tune comes from his latest, Sweet Creatures.

New Music From Smoker

n3sv_SPS1Last year we shared a new tune with you by a band called Smoker (then known as Stephen Paul Smoker) and today we’ve got some new music from the guys.  This track “Strange Ways” appears on an album of same name that was released earlier this summer.  It has the same sort of bluesy/psych-rock type soulful feel to it that we got with the last song they shared with us.  It’s definitely something worth your time.

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Nice New Track from Little Hurricane

Sometimes you get some information on a band, and you’re tempted to look the other way, panning them as just another run of the mill bluesy duo. But, along the way to my dismissal, I just couldn’t escape this track getting stuck in my head. Little Hurricane might have a hell of a lot of swagger in the live setting, but I’m really enjoying the sound on the first single from their album Homewrecker; the album hits on May 1st via Unknown Behavior. There’s something about Tone’s (singer/guitarist) vocals that definitely raise the bar on blues-rock; it’s not that typical country whine.  With Jack White rocking solo, a song like this propels Little Hurricane to the top of the pack.

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Download:Little Hurricane – Haunted Heart [MP3]