Caleb Caudle's upcoming album, Carolina Ghost, is his first that's been fully created since he got sober.  The Country Fried Rock alum was previously featured on this program following Paint Another Layer on My Heart.  After extensive touring both solo and with a band, Caudle feels like he's starting to get it right.

Caleb Caudle:  Country Fried Rock Podcast #1602

Jeffrey Foucault's (pronounced Folk-alt) latest album, Salt As Wolves, brings the #CFRalum (previously featured here) back to his rock and blues roots.  The title references Shakespeare's character, Iago, from Othello, but the songs reflect Foucault's personal life more than any of his other albums.  As he prepares for the European leg of his tour supporting the record, his long-time band slips into his groove without missing a beat.

Jeffrey Foucault:  Country Fried Rock Podcast #1603

Kevin Gordon‘s latest album, Long Gone Time, continues his thoughtful, critical examination of reconciling your love for family with deeply held incompatible beliefs. Country Fried Rock previously featured Gordon following his album, Gloryland. Gordon again recorded with his friend and frequent guitar player, Joe V. McMahan, and funded the album with a personal twist on crowdfunding, detailed in our conversation. We recorded this program in our AirBnB in East Nashville during AmericanaFest 2015.  

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Kevin Gordon:  Podcast #1604 Country Fried Rock

Golden Eels popped onto my feed because of our mutual music preferences on Bandcamp.  Their songwriter, Neil Golden, has played on records for several Athens, Georgia, bands, ranging from the Elephant 6 legends,Elf Power, to The Glands and #CFRalumni, Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy.  Periscopes in the Air leans toward the psychedelic pop sounds of Golden's earlier collaborations, yielding a completely DIY record that suits long commutes and pleasant workday distractions.

***Sorry for the cell phone audio.

Golden Eels:  Country Fried Rock #1605

A silly outtake with uncorrected audio levels from Country Fried Rock's upcoming podcast featuring #CFRalumni, Town Mountain.

I told my child that we'll have to do DNA tests if he wants to marry anyone from South Carolina, because we are all related to each other.  We briefly chat about Wofford College and the Lesesne family.

My Whole State Is Cousins (Town Mountain Outtake)

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Town Mountain's new album, Southern Crescent, is out on April Fools' Day 2016.  The #CFRalumni embrace their diverse acoustic roots, breaking out from being "just a bluegrass band," while keeping the fun of their live shows in the songs.  Recorded in Louisiana, the boogie got into their souls.

Originally posted on http://countryfriedrock.org/town-mountain-1606/

Town Mountain Podcast:  Country Fried Rock

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James Hunter was notably "discovered" by Van Morrison while performing in gritty pubs in England, but the songwriter and singer is more than a protege.  The James Hunter Six perform across the world, primarily for blues audiences, although they have been embraced by Americana and rock clubs, as well.  Their dynamic shows, fronted by the charismatic British-soul singer, highlight their rhythm and horn sections.  The band often works up those parts separately before a whirlwind set of rehearsals when they are recording a new album, such as their latest on Dap Tone Records, Hold On.

James Hunter 6 Interview

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Allen Thompson Band‘s new album, Brace Yourself, is still kept under top-secret guard, but the stories leading to the title seem surreal. Thompson and band mate, Clint Maine, both broke their backs in separate accidents within a month of each other. The following year helped them expand their sound and get weirder, as they describe. Thompson called on a slew of music friends to contribute to the record, including the first single, a duet with Elizabeth Cook, “Long Time Thinkin’,” out now.


Brace Yourself

Allen Thompson Interview (Podcast 1608)

Sadler Vaden released his debut full length solo album in August 2016.  His DIY effort morphed and was scrapped then re-imagined and recorded over a few years.  What ultimately became this upbeat, pop influenced rock record demonstrates Vaden's expertise gleaned from fronting his own band in the early 2000s for 8 years, playing for Drivin N Cryin, and most recently for Jason Isbell.  Even his cover of John Moreland's song, "Nobody Cares About Songs Anymore," becomes Vaden's own, filtered through Big Star and Vaden's own sensibilities.

Sadler Vaden

Sadler Vaden Podcast

Podcast interview by Sloane Spencer with Boo Ray regarding the vinyl release of Sea of Lights.  Vinyl manufactured in Athens, GA, by Kindercore, the first vinyl release from their brand new, state of the art, record manufacturing and pressing plant.

Sea of Lights

Boo Ray:  Interview 1702

Sally Jaye launched Cafe Rooster Records with a legendary guerrilla party at AmericanaFest 2016 in Nashville, TN.  The cooperative record label began with friend and co-founder, Darrin Bradbury's album, Elmwood Park, quickly adding a vinyl release of Jaye's band, Ladies Gun Club, a vinyl re-issue of her solo album, Amarillo, and a digital release of fellow co-founder Brian Wright's album, The Sneak Ups.  Within the first year, Cafe Rooster also released their first two albums "outside" the family, Jon Latham's acclaimed Lifers and a collaborative record, Strange Freedom: Songs of Love and Protest, to benefit Planned Parenthood.  Keeping with the DIY ethos of the artists, the label promotes limited edition, hand-made art, rather than typical merch.  With a revived touring schedule of her own (playing in Ojai, CA, and Los Angeles this week), Jaye may be the busiest record label executive in the business.

Essential production support for this program provided by Sloan Simpson.  Photo credit Cowtownchad (Chad Cochran).

Cafe Rooster Records

Sally Jaye (Podcast Interview)

This podcast originally appeared on https://countryfriedrock.org/chris-porter-andrea-juarez-1704/
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Andrea Juarez never planned to release an album, but it seemed like the best way to honor her fiance, Chris Porter, who passed away on tour October 2016, when their van was rear-ended on the interstate. Mitchell Vandenburg also was killed, and Adam Nurre miraculously survived the horrific wreck. Porter was mostly finished with tracking his album, Don’t Go Baby It’s Gonna Get Weird Without You, which he had recorded in marathon sessions with Will Johnson (Centro-Matic) producing, and Shonna Tucker (Pegi Young, Drive By Truckers) and John Calvin Abney (Solo, John Moreland) with whom he had toured. Bonnie Whitmore hosted a memorial concert to raise the rest of the funds to finish the record, which will be released on the anniversary.

Don't Go Baby It's Gonna Get Weird Without You

In Memory of Chris Porter:  Andrea Juarez #1704

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