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BREAKING THRU
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Lone Piñon (from the album Hot Carne Seca available on Jalopy Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Celebrating cultural roots, Lone Piñon presents themselves as an orquesta tipida…a Mexican string band. Based in New Mexico, Lone Piñon covers the Southwest with music guaranteed as a balm to sooth spirits, and a bounce to step away from worldwide troubles. Their recent release, Hot Carne Seca, gathers regional music from the border and beyond, Lone Piñon curating a rich heritage of sounds. “Los Ojos de Pancha” sways side to side on a wriggling rhythm as a desert breeze blows across the seductive cantina strains of “No Era Para Mi”.
Giving a shout out for homeground, Hot Carne Seca twists and turns in “Viva Albequerque”, continuing to kick up sawdust on the dance floor with the “Pecos Polka”, and slowly turning on the Gypsy touches of sound that glide over the swaying groove in “Sunset Waltz”. Lone Piñon open the album brightly stepping to the sound of the fiddle that guides first cut, “Polka Prolematica”, exiting the album with sweet harmony rising from “Nochetia”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Lone Piñon on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on Lone Piñon website
Jess Klein (from the album Dreaming Aloud available on Motherlode Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
The finely-tuned blade that Jess Klein waves to cut through dark shadows and deep valleys is forged in words and music on her recent release, Dreaming Aloud. She promises to “Never Stop” on a beat that matches the commitment to moving while the sharp scratch of guitar chords and rhythm support the truths that Jess Klein preaches to the Rock’n’Roll faithful in “All It’ll Take”.
More than just a song, Jess Klein believes in the power of her music and herself. That complete immersion into intention can be heard in the roller coaster rhythms of Dreaming Aloud. Over a full moon night soundtrack Jess Klein conjures a mantra stitched in the story as she asks questions in “What If”. Strutting with a Country Rock attitude, “I Wanna Be Love” becomes a demand of self rather than pondering possibilities as the revolving melodies in “The Questions” flow on a groove that travels like a fast current, bouncing over rocks posed as direct questioning in the words. A quiet reverie is met with the echoed sounds of a church basement piano when Jess Klein seeks to “Delay the Sunrise” and coming out the other end of the telescope hammering out bar band glory for “Old Rock’n’Roller”. Jess Klein joins the “Angel Choir” with an agenda, sinking deep in the dreamscape sway of “Charm of Finches”, explaining her reasons in her rhymes with the Dreaming Aloud title track. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Jess Klein on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Jess Klein website
Andy Hedges (from the album The Westerner available on Cowboy Songster Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Cowboy poetry threads the magic of Western tales in the recent release from Andy Hedges. He talks of the “Death of the Last Cowboy” against the starlight flicker of strings plucked and strummed as The Westerner spins a reel as it tells the somber story of “The Cowboy’s Hard Times”. Andy Hedges introduces “The Maiden and Her Fiddle”, hears a voice from the shadows whisper “I’d Like to Be in Texas”, and matches the beat of hooves with the beat in “The Round Corral”.
Growing up in a small community outside of Lubbock, Texas, Andy Hedges fell in love with the cowboy songs on his father’s cassette collection. He guides The Westerner along the many dirt roads that cross the American West with a Honky Tonk tale that slowly spins to the count of “Eight Bucks & Change” as Texas history wanders the open range of The Lone Star state with “Cattle”. The album juggles memories of Southwest towns with “Names” as The Westerner sings family pride into the story of its title track as Andy Hedges exits the album on desert strums that back the legend of “Driftin’ Cowboy”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Andy Hedges on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on Andy Hedges website
AJDeiboldt (from Demolition EP available on Adam Deiboldt Music) (by Danny McCloskey)
Supporting his commitment to recording real music by flesh and blood musicians, AJDeiboldt debuted the songs of his recent release, Demolition EP, on a Substack livestream. The performances became the soundtrack for Demolition EP. The songs are stripped to essence, shining like the gems in opening track “Diamonds in the Dust”. A quiet reverie is echoed in the hushed tones and textures of “Steal Away” while a world view that is guided by the deep meditations of “Someday Gonna Come Someday”.
As an intention, AJDeiboldt tears down the belief that funhouse mirror illusions create in the Musical Industrial Complex and its use of AI as a band member. The album contains no autotuning, no edits, and no sleight-of-hand outside of spark-setting guitar chord chops. A slide guitar spins and swirls around the story in “Pretty Days” as AJDeiboldt takes slow determined strides on the guitar notes supporting the lessons of “The Old Ways”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to AJDeiboldt on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the AJDeiboldt website
Lester Winchester McKee (from the album They Got It All available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
The mighty groove is an undertow, seducing with its rhythms in the They Got It All title track. The recent release from Lester Winchester McKendree is a spinning wheel of loosely delivered, finely-tuned Roots grooves from the Rock ’n’ Rhythm era. The ambient sounds of nature back the wandering electric guitar notes that lead the path across “Along with the Sunshine” as “Down the Same Street” cruises the same path in the Streetwalkin’ Cheetah driving the story. Lester Winchester McKendree come together as a jukebox that plays slowly unraveling tales of love (“The Right Pose”) as it casts a spell on the gnarly groove of “Bad Mantras” while the band in the motel bar sings “I’m No Amateur”. Highway signs and white lines are flashes of light when “Baby’s Carburetor” tears up the asphalt as Lester Winchester McKendree tell the tale of a worldwide musical traveling circus community in “Dylan Ain’t Spillin’”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Lester Winchester McKendree on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Jeff Rymes (from the album The Highway Call available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
The recent release from Jeff Rymes, The Highway Call, gives an apt description from the musician about the songs, stating ‘it’s similar to The Wizard of Oz except for the characters and the situations and other stuff’. The story in “A Song of Love” is told over dark clouds that pound out ancient desert beats as hints of border drama offer a dark sparkle to light the path of “Children in the Night”. A campfire weary guitar partners with a campfire harmonica to tell the tale of “Lefty’s Last Ride” as soul-baring honesty becomes the raw realities in the story of “I Feel Lonesome All the Time”.
The rhythms rise and fall. The stories walk a similar path as the narrator in The Highway Call title track takes the podium to offer salvation. A dreamscape melody drifts like river fog as “Jacksonville” materializes on a swamp groove. Jeff Rymes is the ringmaster for the stories gathered on the album. He offers a welcome to the album with opening cut “Long Before the Aftermath” while The Highway Call rolls down the window, the breeze blowing in on a Hunter S. Thomson-esque tale that introduces “The Fireman’s Daughter”. Rock’n’Roll glory walks beside Jeff Rymes when he struts down the “Street of San Lorenzo” as the hum of asphalt supports the life-on-the-edge opinions in “Trucks & Guns” while The Highway Call sways on the soft breeze of island rhythms that question integrity with finger-pointing accuracy. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Jeff Rymes on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Jeff Rymes website
Celebrating cultural roots, Lone Piñon presents themselves as an orquesta tipida…a Mexican string band. Based in New Mexico, Lone Piñon covers the Southwest with music guaranteed as a balm to sooth spirits, and a bounce to step away from worldwide troubles. Their recent release, Hot Carne Seca, gathers regional music from the border and beyond, Lone Piñon curating a rich heritage of sounds. “Los Ojos de Pancha” sways side to side on a wriggling rhythm as a desert breeze blows across the seductive cantina strains of “No Era Para Mi”.
Giving a shout out for homeground, Hot Carne Seca twists and turns in “Viva Albequerque”, continuing to kick up sawdust on the dance floor with the “Pecos Polka”, and slowly turning on the Gypsy touches of sound that glide over the swaying groove in “Sunset Waltz”. Lone Piñon open the album brightly stepping to the sound of the fiddle that guides first cut, “Polka Prolematica”, exiting the album with sweet harmony rising from “Nochetia”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Lone Piñon on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on Lone Piñon website
Jess Klein (from the album Dreaming Aloud available on Motherlode Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
The finely-tuned blade that Jess Klein waves to cut through dark shadows and deep valleys is forged in words and music on her recent release, Dreaming Aloud. She promises to “Never Stop” on a beat that matches the commitment to moving while the sharp scratch of guitar chords and rhythm support the truths that Jess Klein preaches to the Rock’n’Roll faithful in “All It’ll Take”.
More than just a song, Jess Klein believes in the power of her music and herself. That complete immersion into intention can be heard in the roller coaster rhythms of Dreaming Aloud. Over a full moon night soundtrack Jess Klein conjures a mantra stitched in the story as she asks questions in “What If”. Strutting with a Country Rock attitude, “I Wanna Be Love” becomes a demand of self rather than pondering possibilities as the revolving melodies in “The Questions” flow on a groove that travels like a fast current, bouncing over rocks posed as direct questioning in the words. A quiet reverie is met with the echoed sounds of a church basement piano when Jess Klein seeks to “Delay the Sunrise” and coming out the other end of the telescope hammering out bar band glory for “Old Rock’n’Roller”. Jess Klein joins the “Angel Choir” with an agenda, sinking deep in the dreamscape sway of “Charm of Finches”, explaining her reasons in her rhymes with the Dreaming Aloud title track. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Jess Klein on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Jess Klein website
Andy Hedges (from the album The Westerner available on Cowboy Songster Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Cowboy poetry threads the magic of Western tales in the recent release from Andy Hedges. He talks of the “Death of the Last Cowboy” against the starlight flicker of strings plucked and strummed as The Westerner spins a reel as it tells the somber story of “The Cowboy’s Hard Times”. Andy Hedges introduces “The Maiden and Her Fiddle”, hears a voice from the shadows whisper “I’d Like to Be in Texas”, and matches the beat of hooves with the beat in “The Round Corral”.
Growing up in a small community outside of Lubbock, Texas, Andy Hedges fell in love with the cowboy songs on his father’s cassette collection. He guides The Westerner along the many dirt roads that cross the American West with a Honky Tonk tale that slowly spins to the count of “Eight Bucks & Change” as Texas history wanders the open range of The Lone Star state with “Cattle”. The album juggles memories of Southwest towns with “Names” as The Westerner sings family pride into the story of its title track as Andy Hedges exits the album on desert strums that back the legend of “Driftin’ Cowboy”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Andy Hedges on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on Andy Hedges website
AJDeiboldt (from Demolition EP available on Adam Deiboldt Music) (by Danny McCloskey)
Supporting his commitment to recording real music by flesh and blood musicians, AJDeiboldt debuted the songs of his recent release, Demolition EP, on a Substack livestream. The performances became the soundtrack for Demolition EP. The songs are stripped to essence, shining like the gems in opening track “Diamonds in the Dust”. A quiet reverie is echoed in the hushed tones and textures of “Steal Away” while a world view that is guided by the deep meditations of “Someday Gonna Come Someday”.
As an intention, AJDeiboldt tears down the belief that funhouse mirror illusions create in the Musical Industrial Complex and its use of AI as a band member. The album contains no autotuning, no edits, and no sleight-of-hand outside of spark-setting guitar chord chops. A slide guitar spins and swirls around the story in “Pretty Days” as AJDeiboldt takes slow determined strides on the guitar notes supporting the lessons of “The Old Ways”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to AJDeiboldt on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the AJDeiboldt website
Lester Winchester McKee (from the album They Got It All available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
The mighty groove is an undertow, seducing with its rhythms in the They Got It All title track. The recent release from Lester Winchester McKendree is a spinning wheel of loosely delivered, finely-tuned Roots grooves from the Rock ’n’ Rhythm era. The ambient sounds of nature back the wandering electric guitar notes that lead the path across “Along with the Sunshine” as “Down the Same Street” cruises the same path in the Streetwalkin’ Cheetah driving the story. Lester Winchester McKendree come together as a jukebox that plays slowly unraveling tales of love (“The Right Pose”) as it casts a spell on the gnarly groove of “Bad Mantras” while the band in the motel bar sings “I’m No Amateur”. Highway signs and white lines are flashes of light when “Baby’s Carburetor” tears up the asphalt as Lester Winchester McKendree tell the tale of a worldwide musical traveling circus community in “Dylan Ain’t Spillin’”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Lester Winchester McKendree on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Jeff Rymes (from the album The Highway Call available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
The recent release from Jeff Rymes, The Highway Call, gives an apt description from the musician about the songs, stating ‘it’s similar to The Wizard of Oz except for the characters and the situations and other stuff’. The story in “A Song of Love” is told over dark clouds that pound out ancient desert beats as hints of border drama offer a dark sparkle to light the path of “Children in the Night”. A campfire weary guitar partners with a campfire harmonica to tell the tale of “Lefty’s Last Ride” as soul-baring honesty becomes the raw realities in the story of “I Feel Lonesome All the Time”.
The rhythms rise and fall. The stories walk a similar path as the narrator in The Highway Call title track takes the podium to offer salvation. A dreamscape melody drifts like river fog as “Jacksonville” materializes on a swamp groove. Jeff Rymes is the ringmaster for the stories gathered on the album. He offers a welcome to the album with opening cut “Long Before the Aftermath” while The Highway Call rolls down the window, the breeze blowing in on a Hunter S. Thomson-esque tale that introduces “The Fireman’s Daughter”. Rock’n’Roll glory walks beside Jeff Rymes when he struts down the “Street of San Lorenzo” as the hum of asphalt supports the life-on-the-edge opinions in “Trucks & Guns” while The Highway Call sways on the soft breeze of island rhythms that question integrity with finger-pointing accuracy. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Jeff Rymes on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Jeff Rymes website
