Between all of the ears that make up Music Savage, we listen to a LOT of music each week that we like but simply don’t have the time to put words around. So we’re starting a new kind of post that lets us put up songs that we think you should hear without all the pomp and circumstance. Add these tunes to your listening list and thank us later. Silk Flowers // Andrew Combs Same // Matthew Logan Vasquez Without You // Winstons Hop The Fence // Blood and Glass Punk Shadows by Blood and Glass America // The New…
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Welp… I don’t think it would be at all possible to put this off any longer than I have. The yearly tradition of picking a favorite kid once again has me denying that I actually need to do it (they’re all special in their own way!) Someone much smarter than me once told me that limitations create value, and since time is also short, I’m going to adopt the style of the #50WordReview for each of the albums below. (For the record, they are in an order determined by the total number of track plays for all tracks on the…
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It’s that time of year again for those of us in the music blogosphere world…the list of favorite albums of the year! There were SO many great records in 2015 and, as always, I found it extremely hard to keep to my regular listing of the ten best. These albums listed below are simply highlights in a standout crowd of bands and musicians that really made ’15 stellar! They may be in order for the sake of the almighty list…but I love them all equally. I hope you enjoy. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eo84jDIMKI[/youtube] 10. Chvrches – Every Open Eye The Scottish 3-piece have…
3 CommentsPhotos by Boston Concert Photography On Tuesday, June 16th the music loving folks of the greater Boston area who gathered at the fantastic Atwood’s Tavern were treated to a night of genuine country charm and twang from Tennessee troubadour Andrew Combs and his terrific band. The Texas-born singer-songwriter currently calls Nashville home and his love of his adopted city was clear on stage that night, as each song made everyone in attendance feel like true southerners for a spell. With two stellar albums, an EP, and a number of singles to select from, the setlist hit all the right notes.…
9 CommentsPOP QUIZ: What’s the name for the album that, each time you listen to it, you have a new favorite song? Normally, I would call it album of the year, but because it’s only February March, I’ll call it Andrew Combs’ All These Dreams. In the follow-up to his beloved 2012 debut effort Worried Man, Combs has hit a new high with Dreams that should land him on a bevy of 2015 “Best Of” lists. While early works drew warranted comparisons to the likes of Dylan, Mickey Newbury, and Guy Clark, this drop finds Combs drawing from other sources. The…
11 CommentsA new tune just hit us from our pal Andrew Combs, off his upcoming new record, All These Dreams, and we fell pretty hard for it pretty damn quickly. “Foolin’,” is a social commentary on the state of people’s online lives, how we’ve come to project something very different from who we are. What you get is this killer, Orbison-like tune that shimmers, a country-tinged song with a modern setpiece. Pals Jeremy Fetzer and Spencer Cullum Jr. from Steelism lend a hand as the band on “Foolin’,” and the rest of the Combs’ upcoming record, which drops March 3rd.
4 CommentsCaitlin Rose – I Was Cruel [T]uesday night may have been uncomfortably cold for an April night in New England but the temperature inside TT The Bear’s Place was perfectly warm, thanks in part to the Nashville jet stream that brought Caitlin Rose and Andrew Combs through our fair city. Both musicians have been crisscrossing the country, promoting their latest releases separately, but we were lucky enough the Rose/Combs touring schedule allowed for the both of them to be here together. That would naturally mean they would take the stage to play a rousing number together… and they did not…
14 CommentsPhotos by Boston Concert Photography [F]riday night was as good of a night as any for music fans here in Boston. Newly announced to the Newport Folk Festival, South Carolina folk rock duo Shovels & Rope in town with friend Andrew Combs warming up the room for them. Shovels & Rope is fresh off a fantastic release late last year, an album in O’ Be Joyful, that has garned major critical acclaim which has helped snowball the band into a headlining tour that landed the duo here in town. So we all packed into the newly opened Sinclair in Harvard…
7 CommentsHey all, it’s finally time to top the list. I had originally intended for this to land yesterday, but due to your awesomeness we ran out of bandwidth…so here we are, atop the mountain of music, these are what I thought was best of the year. 10. Spirit Family Reunion – No Separation Spirit Family Reunion – I Am Following The Sound [S]pirit Family Reunion released their first full LP this year, and as if they didn’t already hold a special place with me after playing out first brunch session, they hit the road touring No Separation delighting us all…
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