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Singer-songwriter Luke LeBlanc carefully explored those personal-to-universal intersections on his last two albums, 2021’s Only Human and 2022’s Fugue State. With Places, his fifth studio album to be released October 27 as his debut recording for Minneapolis-based Real-Phonic Records, LeBlanc crafts a thoroughly thematic collection of 10 songs focused on accepting and embracing the physical and emotional places that shape us.
Erik is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. Stylistically he is on his own. Influenced by roots music of the Americas and the world, the rhythmic integrity and musical tone is as important as the lyrical content and the artistic intent. Koskinen explains. “I like old music. I like old sounds, and I play old instruments through old amps. But I'm not trying to sound like a Chuck Berry record or a Waylon Jennings record.” No, Koskinen is not trying to sound like anyone else at all. He’s one of a kind. An American original.
Molly has traveled the roads of the American music tradition and returned to sing about it with an authentic and sage voice. To see her perform live is an unforgettable experience. Blending simmering guitars and cutting lyrics. An incomparable singer and songwriter with compelling depth and soul and cutting lyrics draws from the deep roots of Americana music. Writing songs that ring true, her singing is a fine balance of deep and soulful, somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Bonnie Raitt. Twangy and lament-filled spirit, guitar driven country-folk-jam with a blues swagger.
Ani Mari is an Americana folk singer-songwriter from the northwoods of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Her lyrics and music are old on soul, sharp and full of whimsy—weaving chord progressions with heart-wrenching stories and melodies. A current junior at the University of Michigan, Ani lives in Ann Arbor and performs around Michigan and the Midwest, Ani & Kora, with whom she has released two full albums and one EP of her original songs and has been touring with since she was 12 years old. Ani & Kora’s most recent album, Good Fighter, was recorded in 2021 in the Twin Cities with Americana artist and producer, Erik Koskinen.
A highway-kind traveler combining a touch of the high and lonesome hollers of the Appalachian hill people with the low-down, dusty grooves of the cosmic cowboys, Dandy has created a unique songwriter banquet sure to satisfy the hunger of any weary passerby.