Just Released - 2014 [Ep.08, S.4]

“Now I’ve opened the lines,

There’s gonna be a transmission …”

                                           “Offer It Up” – Kate Miller-Heidke  [2014]

Trading security for uncertainty is a brave option for anyone. For a musician, it might be seen as risky. But that’s what Kate did. Kate Miller-Heidke has made a bold return to the world of Independent music with her just released 4th solo album, ‘O Vertigo!’ on which her extraordinary voice is at its operatic and acrobatic best. You’ll hear it in this week’s edition of JR.  

And there’s more Australian talent on offer this week with a new single from emerging Brisbane  band Sheppard and an impressive debut from Morgan Bain, a young singer recently named Western Australia’s ‘2013 Blues and Roots Act of the Year’.

Also in this edition we have the understated but grand statement from Mancunian band, Elbow and a feisty new single from Ireland’s Imelda May, ahead of her next album due out in June.

And we have great sense of history in this edition with a new album from Carlene Carter, reconnecting with her illustrious heritage as a member of America’s first family of Country music. As well, there’s a newly discovered “lost” album from Carlene’s late step-father, Johnny Cash, recorded in the 1980s but left languishing on the shelf until now.

We continue our look back with the 40^th Anniversary edition of Elton John’s masterwork, ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’. The original double LP has been freshly remastered and expanded to include an Elton John live performance from late 1973 and a tribute disc featuring recordings of 8 of the album’s key songs, interpreted by contemporary artists as diverse as Ed Sheeran and Fall Out Boy.

  

      

Imelda May: “It’s Good To Be Alive” (new single)

Sheppard: “Geronimo” (new single)

Morgan Bain: “In The Middle” (new single)

Kate Miller-Heidke: “Offer It Up”/”Share Your Air (featuring Passenger)” (from the album, ‘O Vertigo!’)

Elbow: “Colourfields”/”New York Morning” (from the album, ‘The Take-Off & Landing Of Everything’)

Carlene Carter: “Little Black Train” (preview from the album, ‘Carter Girl’)

Johnny Cash: “She Used To Love Me A Lot (Elvis Costello Remix)” (preview from the album, ‘Out Among The Stars’)

Ed Sheeran: “Candle In The Wind” (preview from the album, ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: 40^th Anniversary Edition’)

Elton John: “Bennie & The Jets” (preview from the album, ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: 40^th Anniversary Edition’)

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Just Released:  Heard Saturdays at 9:05pm on ABC Local Radio & repeated Sundays at 4:05pm (AEDST or AEST) on ABC Digital Radio through Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and streaming on demand at the Gold Coast, Newcastle, Hobart and Darwin web pages. JR can also be heard on Radio Australia throughout Asia & the Pacific.

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