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Amanda Cook - Narrowing the Gap

Mountain Fever Records releases the third studio album Narrowing the Gap from rising star Amanda Cook and her band, today! The album title points to Amanda Cook's keen ability to keep her eye on track with the goals of her music career. Two…
Jeremy Garrett, fiddle, guitar, folk, Coldplay, Organic Records, Syntax Creative - image

Jeremy Garrett - "Magic"

Crossing genres may be more popular than ever these days, but even so, it takes a confident, creative musician to go deeper than a superficial mash-up, especially when it comes to blending traits from fundamentally different realms like acoustic…
The Alex Leach Band, bluegrass, Mountain Home Music Company, Syntax Creative - image

The Alex Leach Band - I'm the Happiest When I'm Moving

With the release of their first full-length album for Mountain Home Music Company, The Alex Leach Band and its youthful leader have made a bold statement that their fresh take on bluegrass—one that draws on a wide-ranging set of historical…
Jaelee Roberts, Mountain Home Music Company, bluegrass, gospel, Syntax Creative - image

Jaelee Roberts - "Still Waters"

Following the racing, contemporary feel of her debut single, “Something You Didn’t Count On,” Mountain Home Music Company’s Jaelee Roberts returns with a thoroughly traditional-sounding gospel entry, “Still Waters.” The single, produced…
Kenna Turner West, Christian music, southern gospel, Sonlite Records, Syntax Creative - image

Kenna Turner West - "I'm Not Who I Was"

Though she’s best-known as a songwriter with a bookcase full of awards, including eight BMI awards; three Dove Awards; twenty-five “Song of the Year” titles, and a growing list of #1s, insiders and those with long memories have known for…
Jerome Ferrell, Lighthouse Intercontinental Choir, Douglas Miller, black gospel, Christian Music, Syntax Creative - image

Jerome L. Ferrell & The Lighthouse Choir feat. Douglas Miller - "Tell of His Goodness"

This uplifting clap-along track features Billboard charting black gospel veterans in Jerome L. Ferrell, The Lighthouse Interdenominational Choir and the late Douglas Miller (who recently passed in Feb. 2021). "Tell of His Goodness" is a song…
Magnolia Drive, bluegrass, Mountain Fever Records, Syntax Creative - image

Magnolia Drive - "I Won't Call You"

Perhaps a response to a late night "drunk-dial," the debut Mountain Fever single from Magnolia Drive is a "polite diss" and a declaration of newfound love. "I've found another/Please don't call me, and I won't call you" sings the song's subject…
Lonesome River Band, bluegrass, banjo, Mountain Home Music Company, Syntax Creative - image

Lonesome River Band - "Little at a Time"

In the wake of “Love Songs,” their most recent bluegrass single, the iconic Lonesome River Band offers an energetic reminder that it is not only one of the best interpreters of secular bluegrass, but of bluegrass gospel, too. “Little at…
Andy Leftwich, fiddle, bluegrass, Mountain Home Music Company, Syntax Creative - image

Andy Leftwich - "Through the East Gate"

With his first release for Mountain Home Music Company, multi-instrumentalist Andy Leftwich lays down a marker that exhibits not just his virtuosity on fiddle and mandolin, but his musical range as a composer, too. “Through the East Gate”…
Aaron Burdett, folk, Americana, acoustic, Organic Records, Syntax Creative - image

Aaron Burdett - "Arlo"

If Aaron Burdett’s last single, “Loser’s Bracket,” was a bluegrass-friendly slice of wry wit, his new Organic Records release serves notice that the western North Carolina singer-songwriter has as fine a touch with a more sombre portrait,…
Steve Gulley, Tim Stafford, bluegrass, Mountain Home Music Company, acoustic, Syntax Creative - image

Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford - Still Here

In 2008, Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford earned their first songwriting award for Blue Highway’s “Through The Window Of A Train”—an early acknowledgement of the songwriting prowess that scored them dozens of cuts over the years. Now, this…
Anya Hinkle, acoustic, folk, fiddle, cello, Organic Records, Syntax Creative - image

Anya Hinkle - "Meditation: Beyond the Shores of Darkness"

Celebrating the arrival of springtime has long been a favored pastime of poets and songwriters, and especially in this year, as we emerge not just from winter, but also from deeply trying times, the theme of renewal, whether in the natural or…