October 29, 2015
Americana stars line up for Celtic Connections
Some of the most exciting New Americana talent will light up Glasgow's Celtic Connections in 2016, artists for who country, bluegrass and folk are a stepping stone for music that is blazingly original and individual.
Artists include Jason Isbell, whose most recent album Something More Than Free, debuted at number one on Billboard's country, rock and folk charts this summer. He brings his honest reflections about southern identity and working-class life to the festival on Sunday 24 January at the O2 ABC. Alabama-born Isbell’s songwriting has been described as being its most poetic when its most plainspoken.
Sturgill Simpson creates murky, multi‐textured soundscapes that incorporate elements of classic country, bluegrass, rock, and even a bit of Electronica. His second album, 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, was cut live to tape in four consecutive days with a budget of $4,000, with inspirations ranging from religious texts both ancient and modern, recent studies about discoveries in quantum physics and string theory, and publications by Carl Sagan and Terence McKenna. A very different Friday night out, on 15 January at the O2 ABC.
An artist whose award winning commercial and critical success has been hard fought will electrify audiences at the Main Auditorium of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 26 January. John Grant, a native of Buchanan, Michigan, later raised in Parker, Colorado, has been based in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik since 2013. His latest album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, is a veritable tour de force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop song.
Artists include Jason Isbell, whose most recent album Something More Than Free, debuted at number one on Billboard's country, rock and folk charts this summer. He brings his honest reflections about southern identity and working-class life to the festival on Sunday 24 January at the O2 ABC. Alabama-born Isbell’s songwriting has been described as being its most poetic when its most plainspoken.
Sturgill Simpson creates murky, multi‐textured soundscapes that incorporate elements of classic country, bluegrass, rock, and even a bit of Electronica. His second album, 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, was cut live to tape in four consecutive days with a budget of $4,000, with inspirations ranging from religious texts both ancient and modern, recent studies about discoveries in quantum physics and string theory, and publications by Carl Sagan and Terence McKenna. A very different Friday night out, on 15 January at the O2 ABC.
An artist whose award winning commercial and critical success has been hard fought will electrify audiences at the Main Auditorium of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 26 January. John Grant, a native of Buchanan, Michigan, later raised in Parker, Colorado, has been based in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik since 2013. His latest album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, is a veritable tour de force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop song.
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