GREENLEAF - “THE HEAD & THE HABIT” With their ninth full-length "The Head & The Habit", Swedish heavy rockers Greenleaf have reached the pinnacle of a long evolution. The musical handwriting and well-honed mastery of guitarist Tommi Holappa, who has been a pioneer and pillar of the European stoner rock scene for more than 25 years, shines clearly through. Apart from world-class vocal lines and massive riffs with electric fuzz-power, Greenleaf have put extra thought into the themes of "The Head & The Habit", which lift it's lyrics far above much of the often cliché-ridden genre. With "The Head & The Habit", Greenleaf combine an awareness of past triumphs with mature craftsmanship, showcasing their confidence in how to rock stronger, harder, and more to the point than ever before. The Swedes melt thunderous riff-magic, enrapturing and soul-heavy vocals, frenetic rhythms and driving attacks into an ear-catching, sparkling alloy of hard rocking anthems! #btrcrotm
Don’t miss the B.T.R.C Flashback ROTM. This Mainstream hit for October is a fun and vibrant record for any listener! Good thing we order it extras! Head to BlindTigerRecordClub.com and grab your copy today.Also- if you are in the Nashville/Franklin area, head to the Blind Tiger Vinyl Lounge @thegreenroomfranklin - 346 Main Street #btrcrotm
South of Here, the fourth full-length studio release from Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, reckons with a lifetime of pain and trauma and transforms it into a stirring and soul-baring rumination on love, loss, hope and resolve. Following Rateliff's 2020 solo album, And It's Still Alright, and The Night Sweats' acclaimed 2021 release, The Future, the new album blends both sides of his immense talent: emotionally potent, vivid storytelling and the rugged, R&B revivalism that has powered the band to world-wide acclaim over the past decade. Tracks include- David and Goliath, Heartless, Remember I Was a Dancer, Get Used to the Night, South of Here, Everybody Wants Something, Center of Me, Cars in the Desert, I Would Like to Heal, Call Me (Whatever You Like), and Time Makes Fools of Us All #btrcrotm
South of Here is the fourth studio album by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, and it is a reflection on love, loss, hope, and resolve. The album is a combination of Rateliff's storytelling and the band's R&B revivalism. Rateliff wrote all the songs on the album, and he says it's a look into his own struggles with anxiety and insecurity. Produced by Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Bon Iver, Kevin Morby) and recorded at Sonic Ranch outside El Paso, Texas, South of Here reckons with a lifetime of pain and trauma and transforms it into a stirring, soul-baring rumination on love, loss, hope and resolve. The B.T.R.C Mainstream ROTM for August! Get your copy today! #btrcrotm
What better was than to spend the weekend listening to the Blind Tiger Record Club Mainstream record for August! #btrcrotm
Live from the Ryman Vol. 2 was produced by Jason Isbell and Cain Hogsed, recorded by Hogsed, mixed by Hogsed and Todd Tidwell, engineered by Hogsed and Jeddidiah Faessler and mastered by Pete Lyman. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (past and present) is Isbell (vocals, guitar), Derry deBorja (keys), Chad Gamble (drums, vocals), Sadler Vaden (guitar, vocals), Anna Butterss (bass, vocals), Will Johnson (guitar, drums, vocals, gong), Jimbo Hart (bass, vocals), Tiffany Morris (bass), Amanda Shires (fiddle, vocals) and Tyler Walker (cowbell, bongos).
When it came to producing his most recent album, 2023’s Weathervanes, Jason Isbell decided to return to the role he’d ceded to Dave Cobb since 2013’s all-timer Southeastern. His goal was to make a record that sounded more like his live shows with his band, the 400 Unit. Mission absolutely accomplished, as Weathervanes is a Southern rock masterpiece, both heavier on guitar solos and wider in dynamic range than most of his recorded catalog. This, in turn, raised the bar for Isbell’s live shows. The band’s bona fides are on full display on Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2. The worthy successor to Isbell’s 2018 first Ryman record assembles songs from his last two studio albums (including 2020’s Reunions), plus a couple of surprises from the wayback machine.
Also- if you are in the Nashville/Franklin area, head to the Blind Tiger Vinyl Lounge @thegreenroomfranklin - 346 Main Street #btrcrotm #btrcspotlight
Don’t miss this special Spotlight album of the month live from Blind Tiger Record Club’s lifestyle post! Live From The Ryman Vol. 2 draws from multi-track recordings by the band’s longtime front-of-house engineer, Cain Hogsed, from four of the last six years of sold-out shows at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium. Hogsed co-produced the album alongside Isbell, and mixed the tracks with Nashville, TN’s Todd Tidwell. The album features 15 live versions of songs from the band’s last two critically acclaimed, award-winning studio albums - Reunions (2020) and Weathervanes, (2023), as well as stunning rendition of “The Last Song I Will Write,” from Isbell’s 2009 self-titled release, and a poignant cover of Tom Petty’s “Room at the Top.” #btrcrotm #btrcrocktober #btrcspotlight
The B.T.R.C Spotlight album for this week is “Live from the Ryman.” Isbell captures the sound of the 400 Unit live, and does so in a venue often called “the mother church of country music,” Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. Having hosted everyone from Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn to Charlie Chaplin and Harry Houdini, the Ryman is believed to be infused with the soul of decades of America’s performing arts. It’s fitting, then, that Isbell, whose music resonates with Southern rock, folk, country, and soul, picked it for recording the live album, a set that possesses a fierceness the 400 Unit doesn’t always show on record. On record, Isbell and his band, the 400 Unit, remain thoughtfully restrained, crafting songs steeped in folk, blues, and soul. While the Alabama native dubbed his 2017 album The Nashville Sound, its songs owe as many debts to Memphis (the Sun Studio sound of Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash) and Alabama’s Muscle Shoals (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Levon Helm, and John Prine) as it does Music City. They’re tunes that feel worn and lived-in, alternately reflecting the battle scars of working-class life as well as the barroom release of a Friday night. #btrcrotm #btrcspotlight
FLASHING back to August with the Blind Tiger Record Club’s Headbanger ROTM! Since their emergence in 2003, Nothing More has earned rock radio chart history with #1 singles with both "This is the Time (Ballast)" and "Go To War" and already has seven Active Rock Radio Top-10 singles in their repertoire. "CARNAL" further proves their expertise in the rock genre and beyond.
Tracks
Carnal
House on Sand (Feat. Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail)
House on Sand (Feat. Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail)
If It Doesn't Hurt
Angel Song (Feat. David Draiman)
Freefall
Blame It on the Drugs
Existential Dread
Head
Down the River
Existential Dread
Sight
Heart
Run for Your Life
Down the River
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Three-time Grammy nominees and San Antonio, Texas-born quartet, NOTHING MORE return with their highly awaited 8th album CARNAL, scheduled for release on June 28th. The album features 15 songs with introspective philosophical lyrics with unapologetically massive anthems. Check out this heavy Headbanger from August! #btrcrotm
The Blind Tiger Record Club wants to wish everyone a Happy Halloween! With our Flashback Motown ROTM “Into the Blue” by Aaron Frazier and our lifestyle post! #btrcrotm #btrclifestyle
Frazer wrote on every track and played several live instruments on the album. The title track, "Into The Blue", is a haunting, resolute anthem, combining cinematic strings and tough-as-nails breakbeats as Frazer heads west. "Here I go, to a place where the broken heart knows," he sings. "It's all I can do. Back into the blue." "Payback" is an explosive dancefloor heater, featuring shimmering tambourines and driving bass lines. Northern soul drums meet snarling fuzz guitar, hurdling towards it's epic conclusion. The album features moments of towering arrangements, recalling David Axelrod and Ennio Merricone, balanced by rawness, incorporating iPhone recordings and one-take vocals. For Into the Blue, Frazer enlisted Grammy-winner Alex Goose as coproducer, known for his crate-digging samples and collaborations with hip-hop artists like Freddie Gibbs, Madlib and Brockhampton. Frazer also experimented with samples for the first time on a record, drawing from unexpected sources like 90s R&B group Hi-Five. Though Into the Blue is born out of heartbreak, Frazer hopes it leaves listeners with a sense of optimism. "You know, you can still laugh on a day when you're grieving," he says, "there's no peaks without valleys," he says, but Into The Blue sees Aaron Frazer at new heights.
Tracks
Thinking of You
Into the Blue
Fly Away
Payback
Dime
Perfect Strangers
Time Will Tell
I Don't Wanna Stay
Play on
Easy to Love
The Fool
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