New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Hill Country Live - NYC's go-to destination for Americana, alt-country, and roots music - has packed this fall with their strongest season to date. On October 24, Mark Seliger's Rusty Truck returns to Hill Country Live with special guest Rhett Miller. Plus, Hill Country Live hosts
Grace Askew of
Blake Shelton's team on The Voice (Season 4), Whiskey Myers, whose new album Early Morning Shakes' is due out early next year, as well as Americana Gem (Chicago Tribune) Diana Jones and
Buddy Guy's protégé, Frank Bang.
10/17 - Freedy Johnston With a reputation for creating fascinating characters and telling their stories through his music, Freedy's songs are often praised for their literary quality - which earned him Rolling Stone's "Songwriter of the Year". Johnston has a new album, tentatively titled 'Neon Repairman'.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/347621-freedy-johnston-new-york/
10/23 -
Grace Askew w/ Leland Sundries
Grace was on team
Blake Shelton of The Voice (season 4). Her talents have afforded her the opportunity to open and tour with some of her musical heroes such as Marty Stuart, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and
James McMurtry. She will join forces with Leland Sundries, who The New York Times says, is dedicated to storytelling in a way that recalls Woody Guthrie and his Folkways brethren.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/388609-grace-askew-leland-sundries-new-york/
10/24 - Rusty Truck w/ Rhett Miller Mark Seliger formed Rusty Truck after
Jakob Dylan and
Sheryl Crow encouraged him to make the music thing real. American Songwriter called Rusty Truck's latest release a sweet, unassuming gem of an album The band will perform with special guest Rhett Miller, frontman of the Old 97s.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/389699-rusty-truck-rhett-miller-new-york/
10/28 - Lincoln Durham - Lincoln plays guitar like a grown man, legendary songwriter (and ace guitarist)
James McMurtry says. Like the howl of the wind and rumble of a thunderstorm, echoes songwriter Hayes Carll, Lincoln Durham's music is raw and real, the way it should be. https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/375571-lincoln-durham-new-york/
11/2 - Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen - A five-time International Bluegrass
Music Association award nominee, this jack-of-all-trades mountain man who went to school in Alaska and once played in the Navy's bluegrass band brings raw grit to atypical mandolin playing by uniting with Dirty Kitchen. https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/387609-frank-solivan-dirty-kitchen-new-york/
11/4 - Diana Jones Diana Jones's recording, My Remembrance of You', earned her a nomination as Best Emerging Artist at the Folk Alliance Awards, leading to tours with Steve Earle, Richard Thompson and Mary Gauthier, appearances at folk festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, and covers of her songs by Gretchen Peters and Joan Baez.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/388643-diana-jones-new-york/
11/16 - Frank Bang & The Secret
Stash Frank Bang learned from the best through a five-year apprenticeship as guitar foil for blues legend
Buddy Guy. He describes the new album,
Double Dare, as driving music something to get you from point A to point B.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/375039-frank-bang-jake-labotz-new-york/
11/18 -
Whiskey Myers - Whiskey Myers' new album 'Early Morning Shakes' (out Feb 4 on Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers) is the culmination of years of dedication, experimentation, and refinement for the Tyler, TX-based quintet. Produced by Dave Cobb - whose credits include Jason Isbell's recent album 'Southeastern,' Jamey Johnson, and both
Waylon and Shooter Jennings - the result is hard-driving and immediate, steeped in the rich legacy of southern rock that inspires the band while also drawing from R&B, psychedelic rock, and string band traditions.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/379345-whiskey-myers-new-york/
11/20 - Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman has released thirteen critically acclaimed albums to date, including her most recent, BLAZE OF GLORY (released May 28, 2013), which is One of the year's finest singer-songwriter albums (American Songwriter). Her songs have been recorded by everyone from
Emmylou Harris and
Joe Cocker to Irma
Thomas and Jimmy Buffett.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/382229-marshall-chapman-new-york/
11/21 - Radney Foster & Darden Smith - Foster also has numerous songs made popular by other stars including
Keith Urban (I'm In, Raining on a Sunday),
Sara Evans (A Real Fine Place to Start), the Dixie
Chicks (Godspeed, Never Say Die), and
Gary Allan (Half of My Mistakes'). No Depression hails Darden Smith - Blessed with a seemingly effortless melodic gift and one of the warmest, most penetrating vocal deliveries in American music.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/316073-evening-radney-foster-new-york/
11/30 - Owen Temple The Austin Chronicle says, "Owen Temple takes on the job of
Texas troubadour with grave intent.
Lonestar Music Magazine praised Temple's
September release With Stories They Tell' this man has just made the best record of his career.
https://music.hillcountryny.com/event/369041-owen-temple-new-york/
Hill Country Live is located at 30 W. 26th St. New York, NY 10010.
