Cole Deggs, Sarah Buxton, Bobby Osborne, Kim Richey top new releases`
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 – Cole Deggs & The Lonesome and Sarah Buxton make their major label recording debuts today, while veterans Bobby Osborne and Kim Richey offer new CDs as well.
Cole Deggs and the Lonesome consists of lead singer Deggs on acoustic guitar and brother and bassist Shade, both of Lake Jackson, Texas, Jimmy and David Wallace of Shreveport, La. on keyboards and lead guitar respectively and drummer Brian Hayes of Clearwater, Fla., with a Southern rock bent to the music. The disc, put out by SonyBMG. contains 11 tracks, 4 co-written by either Cole Deggs or Jimmy Wallace. Mark Wright and Rivers Rutherford produced the disc. The first single is "I Got More."
Sarah Buxton releases a five-song digital-only EP, Almost My Record " (Lyric Street),
as a prelude to a full-length CD. Included is "Stupid Boy," the song that Keith Urban recorded and released after hearing her version. Urban released it as a single from his latest CD.
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press - Fresh on the heels of his label debut from March, "Try a Little Kindness," Bobby Osborne and his Rocky Top X-Press quickly return with 12 new tracks, "Bluegrass Melodies" (Rounder). Among them are John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and Vince Gill's "Go Rest High on That Mountain" with Rhonda Vincent.
Kim Richey releases her first disc in five years, "Chinese Boxes" (Vanguard). The 10 songs were produced by Giles Martin. The Ohio native released several albums on Mercury and later Lost Highway. Richey maintains a Mary Chapin Carpenter type vibe, meaning it's more rootsy and pop than country.
Eilen (pronounced "ee-lin") Jewell makes her national debut, recalling Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams vocally, on "Letters from Sinners and Strangers" (Signature Sounds) . Jewell, an Idaho native, self-released her debut "Boundary Country" CD in 2005. After busking at college in Santa Fe, N.M., she spent a summer busking in Venice Beach, Cal. She then followed the burgeoning neo-trad revival to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, where she made her stage debut at open mikes and folk clubs, before heading to Boston where she current lives.
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