Western Addiction - Tremulous - VINYL LP

There is a fearless quality to the music of new ANTI- signing Christopher Paul Stelling. A voice that sounds both old and young, an effortless yet intricate finger-picking guitar style, and lyrics that are dramatic and intensely confessional. It's a sound that channels the restless spirit of a young man who left home to travel the country, writing haunting and impassioned songs formed by endless nights alone on stage with a guitar, playing to packed houses, other times to nearly empty rooms. Stelling estimates that he's played over four hundred shows in just the past three years. It places him within a longstanding tradition that serves to build both character and vision. Labor Against Waste features Stelling's astonishing guitar work, a melodic finger-picking style influenced in large part by blues legends such as Skip James and Mississippi John, masters like John Fahey, and banjo greats Dock Boggs and Roscoe Holcomb. On top of this soars Stelling's voice, a resonant baritone that calls to mind classic troubadours from Tim Hardin to Steve Earle. Accompanied by an ensemble of stomps, claps, French horn, flugelhorn, kettle drums, string quartet, and a chorus comprised of members from the Low Anthem, in whose studio Stelling recorded the album, Labor Against Waste is the opening statement in what should be a long and storied career. Album Tracks 1. Warm Enemy 2. Revenge 3. Scarecrow 4. Castle 5. Horse 6. Death of Influence 7. Dear Beast 8. Hard Work 9. Burial Shroud 10. Too Far North

Album Tracks 1. The Leopard and the Juniper 2. They Burned Our Paintings 3. Frail Bray 4. Lurchers 5. Rose's Hammer I 6. Rose's Hammer II 7. Laurette 8. Utter Despair 9. Wildflowers of Italy 10. We Lived in Ultraviolet 11. Deranged By Grief

Bluegrass band Big Richard makes music for the 21st century's twisted cultural unease. Their Signature Sounds debut Pet, is a fierce, provocative, rejoinder to what troubles them and the world right now, and was recorded live to tape in order to capture the fervor of their live shows.InchBig Richard is so much about our energetic delivery, and so I think it's been really important for us as a group to figure out how to do that for a record,Inch says mandolin and guitar player Bonnie Sims. And figure it out they did. Pet delivers, successfully translating the supergroup's live kinetic harmonies and string virtuosity. Unapologetically outrageous and provocative, the band's name is a wink to the 'big dick' energy Big Richard is reclaiming from male bluegrass bands. Since exploding onto the Colorado scene in 2021, the four women have been on a wild ride, slapping as hard as possible on the festival circuit, working up their stamina on nationwide headlining tours, and leaving a wake of die-hard Big Richard Heads across the country swooning for their honest songwriting, chilling vocals, and fiddle-driven barn-burners.InchOur live performances are so raw and so gritty, and I think that our sound never really flourished in that digital landscape.Inch GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning cellist Joy Adams says. Inch[Recording live to tape] we were all in the same room together, very close together, with a lot of mic bleed, etc. And the energy was insane. It felt so good to record this way. Even on the first day, we were like 'wow, this sounds like our band.' And to do something that's very real and gritty and has little mistakes in it just feels alive and human.Inch Album Tracks 1. It's Gonna Fall - Old Daingerfield 2. The One I Love Is Gone 3. Millionaire 4. K's March 5. Pet 6. Alaska 7. Holy Holy 8. Circus Jerk 9. Red Fox Run 10. Make the World Go Away