“Close to Home,” his fourth album under his own name, is due out in June on Plowboy Records. A prime mover in the upsurge of alt-country with his band BR5-49 in the 1990s, Mead has continued to be a major force in the Nashville roots/country/Americana community. In his mid-20s, the hot Nashville picker plays bluegrass but colors well outside the lines, bringing elements of psychedelia and a punk-rock onstage energy into music that’s breathing new life into the music’s traditions. March 15, Mohawk outdoor ACL Radio Live at W Hotel, time/date TBA)īilly Strings. March 12, Cactus Cafe March 13, SX San Jose at San Jose Hotel 9 p.m. His past work hinted at his talent as an aspiring songwriter, but this new album breaks it wide open. “Texas Piano Man” recasts Ellis as a sort of southwestern Elton John - a tall order, but Ellis fully lives up to it, with melodically ambitious songs that soar well beyond basic-chord templates and a voice that carries it all with passion and flair. Originally from the Houston area but now calling Austin home, Ellis found a way to break out dramatically from the crowded roots-troubadour field with his latest New West Records release. Here's a handful of our favorites in a field that, not surprisingly, includes quite a few hometown representatives. Tunesmith continues to provide service in the wide array of musical areas: traditional performance score and parts, video game scores, new arrangements of old, orchestration, and original commissions.A broad-umbrella genre by definition, Americana music means a lot of different things at South by Southwest, from countrified rock to punk-edged folk to soulful traditionalism to old-school bluegrass. Everyone’s music is precious and deserves to be treated with the utmost care and respect! We take great pride in our attention to detail while applying our knowledge and experience to every client’s work, both large and small. A new and exciting development in recent years has been our involvement in the preparation of video game scores for recording and demo. We provide the preparation for well-known composer Gwyneth Walker and the musical figures for the ACDA Choral Journal. In recent years we have been involved in quite a few exciting projects: Kareem Roustom’s Violin Concerto #2 for Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic, Autumn Lute-Song and Piccolo Concerto by Su Lian Tan both of which also involved Tunesmith created piano arrangements that are featured on a soon to be released recording! Tunesmith has recently completed A Requiem for George Floyd for composer Henry Mollicone as well as numerous choral and chamber works from large to small. Our experience is deep and wide, with noteworthy expertise in the music processing platforms Finale and Sibelius. Tunesmith has been providing award-winning music preparation, editing, enhancement and consulting services for more than 25 years. It is owned and operated by noted composer, arranger, and performer A. Tunesmith Music is located in Fern Creek, Kentucky, just south of Louisville.
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