Music Mix With Joe Kendrick

4 days ago | wncw.org | Martin Anderson

Alabama singer/songwriter/troubadour Grayson Capps is coming back through Western North Carolina for a show at the Grey Eagle in Asheville Thursday, and we have a feeling he’s pretty excited about it. As he says in his own bio: “I grew up with music, whether hearing Fred Stokes, Bobby Long and my dad, Ronnie Capps, singing around the house on Fridays and Saturdays, or listening to vinyl records in the den, my youth seemed to always be surrounded with music.

4 days ago | wncw.org | Martin Anderson

Ten years (and 13 albums!) into his career, Charley Crockett has shared a lot about his life through his songs, not to mention his frank interviews. His life experiences are rather frank and direct in this straightforward release, too, and it’s bound to be another one of his to rank high in our Top 100 at year’s end.

4 days ago | wncw.org | Martin Anderson

Following his 2023 breakout full-length album Family Ties, comes this 7-song EP. It’s a bit more subdued and stripped down, though it’s not short on great production, or collaboration with the likes of Scott Avett on the Jason Molina song “Hammer Down”. A more prominent collaborator here is producer Al Torrence, who also contributed drums, bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, piano, Hammond B3 organ, synthesizers, Mellotron, and background vocals.

4 days ago | wncw.org | Martin Anderson

The four members of the Animal Liberation Orchestra – Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz on guitar, Steve Adams on bass, Zach Gill on keys, and Ezra Lipp on drums -- each take turns in the songwriting and lead-vocals spotlight with this latest fusion of rock, electronic, alt-pop, R&B, folk, dance, and funk. As the band’s website describes it, “The theme running throughout Frames is a reaction to the rapid pace in which we live our lives.

4 days ago | wncw.org | Martin Anderson

It’s been a while since we heard from singer/songwriter Grey DeLisle – she needed to take a break from live performance and perhaps the music business in general. But she’s back, and making up for lost time with this double-album of 20 songs she’s written. Aside from the physical and voluminous homage to The Beatles’ “White Album”, DeLisle pays tribute to that wonderful convergence of Nashville country, Bakersfield honky-tonk, and British blues/pop of the ‘60s.