Live Music with June Star

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June Star' is an American roots rock group from Baltimore, Maryland on the American east coast. The founder, band leader, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter is Andrew Grimm who has gathered the other group members Katie Feild (acoustic guitar and vocals), Ryan Finnerin (bass guitar), Kurt Celtknieks (drums) and Dave Hadley (pedal steel). to record his songs on record and play them live.

This formation was initiated by Andrew Grimm in 1998 and no less than sixteen albums were released in the following 22 years. “The Late Spring” is the most recent release that we would like to take a closer look at for you here. Ten new songs were recorded for this album and the music genre used by 'June Star' can best be defined as alt.country.

That Andrew Grimm is a fan of established artists such as Tom Waits, Tom Petty or Bob Dylan is shown several times when listening to the songs on “The Late Spring”. The song “Heaven Only Knows” can be heard on the video as an example, but this comparison becomes even clearer with subsequent tracks such as the ballads “Waiting On You”, the pedal steel dominated “Used To You” and the cleverly instrumented “Who's Wrong Now?”.

The harmonious vocal contribution of Katie Feild colors these songs into beautiful musical landscapes, just like the following songs “Boys In Trouble” and “New Moon”. With the songs “LLSK” and the rocking “I Might Fall”, however, we should rather think of Lou Reed and his friends from 'Velvet Underground'. The closing act of this album is formed by the melodic song “Heaven, Please” performed with guest musician-organist Brian Simms, sung in its entirety by Katie Feild. It is a beautiful song that certainly does not look out of place on this excellent new album by 'June Star'; a real must for all fans of the alt.country and Americana sound that we have all known from bands like 'Son Volt' or 'Drive-By Truckers'.

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