New Music Off New Albums You Should Buy

Canadian Singer-Songwriter Lindi Ortega just released Tin Star, her fifth full length album this month. She has a voice that mirrors the women pioneers of country music and songs so good that it would make those Nashville office songwriters hang their heads in shame. The title track tells the life of a struggling independent musician trying to survive in the treacherous depths of music row.“Like an old tin star, I’m beat up and rusting lost in the shining stars of Nashville, Tennessee.” This song broke my heart, I hate how it has to be this way. When indie artists write songs like this, the point isn't to make you feel bad for them. Their songs about their struggles trying to find a place to fit all come from the fact that they are slowly accepting the unfortunate truth of the life they are trying to lead. Success should be based on talent and passion for your work, it's just not, but no matter what the world tells you, you just got to keep going. “If the music wasn’t running through the blood in my veins, I might just walk away, but the music keeps on running through the blood in my veins, and it just makes me stay" Talk about passion. 



I'm sure you've heard the song in the Chevy Silverado commercial sometime this year. "Strong" was sung and written by Will Hoge. After the nationwide publicity of that song he is finally getting the recognition he deserves. His most recent album Never Give In was released this month. He is nine studio albums in and just got his first number one hit ("Even If It Breaks Your Heart" recorded by The Eli Young Band) after 15 years in the business. It just goes to show that if you're determined and you stick with it, you never know what can happen. What happened here is great music that is starting to turn some heads around.




After writing for credible country artists today like Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert, Brandy Clark just released her first album 12 Stories last week. If you like Kacey you will love Brandy Clark. Stylistically, their songwriting is quite similar. The topics tend to lean on the darker side, middle class life, small town lies, addiction, and a whole lot of truth. We need powerful women like her to teach a thing or two to these guys who rule the country charts. 







Punk rock country folk americana, whatever, Austin Lucas defies 
genre lines and does so greatly. This album Stay Reckless is not your typical americana album, even though he is often put into there. It's sad when you need it to be, happy when you want it to be, it's heartbreaking and uplifting, it's country and rock and roll. It's a lot of things and that's why I like it.