#nicole atkins

[nofatclips]

Live version of St. Dymphna by Nicole Atkins from the album Memphis Ice

#music #live #live music #nicole atkins #dan chen #laura epling #maggie chaffee #daniel chen #ryan mchugh #christopher colbert #chris colbert #scott mcewen #zach hundley #video #live session #Youtube

[doppleganger-rental]

This has been in heavy rotation. Tops all the way.

#nicole atkins #me #vinyl

[jwood718]

I wind up thinking of these as a pair:

"...so tell me what I want anyhow..."

"...but you seem cool enough..."

#music! #nicole atkins #aimee mann #hometown dreams hometown fears #Youtube

[a-h-87769877]

#mind eraser #nicole atkins #Italian ice #2020 #this content is made for kids 🫠 #music #video #music video #groovy #Youtube

[kickdrumheart68]

The Mavericks - Live Close By (Visit Often) [with Nicole Atkins] - Offic...

#the mavericks #live close by #visit often #nicole atkins #lyric video #music video #you tube #Youtube

[manitat]

Nicole Atkins - Under The Milky Way

#nicole atkins #under the milky way #the church

[tresmassif]

New music love.

#nicole atkins #girls rock #female rockers

[dinosaursr66]

Another beautiful song by another New Jersey born singer. I enjoyed her live as well.

SONG OF THE DAY - January 5, 2023

#song of the day #nicole atkins #jersey girl #Youtube

[1000creepyeyes]

#music #spotify #nicole atkins

[nofatclips]

In The Splinters by Nicole Atkins, live at Langosta Lounge for WFUV Public Radio

#music #live music #live #nicole atkins #wfuv public radio #wfuv #ryan mchugh #hamilton leithauser #james hamilton leithauser #video #live session #marquee live at home #marquee live #Youtube

[sinceileftyoublog]

Out Of Space 2022: 8/5-8/6, Canal Shores Golf Course, Evanston

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Second to good weather (unlike last year), the impeccable curation of Friday and Saturday at Out of Space was the festival’s ultimate draw and highlight. Friday, you had Elvis Costello (with The Imposters) and Nick Lowe (with Los Straitjackets), the two forever intertwined in song and in scene. Opening for them was Nicole Atkins, who appears on Costello’s latest album with The Imposters, The Boy Named If (Capitol/EMI), and whose music toes the same line as does Costello, one between romanticism and realism. Saturday, you had two of the finest Americana singer-songwriters around: the legendary Lucinda Williams, and Waxahatchee, the ever-evolving project of Katie Crutchfield that takes influence from Williams more than it does from any other songwriter. Throughout the weekend, tributes abound, to artists there and not there, to the point I kept forgetting who idolized who.

Costello’s venerable band can do no wrong, even if they play tunes whose studio versions were billed to a different backing band. Sure, it helps that, for instance, The Imposters and The Attractions share a couple members (keyboardist Steve Nieve and drummer Pete Thomas), but each musician offers their own limber backing to Costello’s crooning, ranting, and raving. Friday, Charlie Sexton’s swirling riffs built up “Green Shirt” beside Nieve’s arpeggiated keys, while Thomas’ and bassist Davey Faragher steadied the distorted barroom jaunt “Hetty O’Hara Confidential”, a standout from Costello’s underrated 2020 record Hey Clockface. “A song about scandal and shame”, it almost has a murder ballad, circus feel. 

While The Boy Named If also sports some truly weird tunes, like “The Man You Love To Hate” and the slinky “Trick Out The Truth”, it’s a purely earnest record. Its best songs are about growing up and learning what matters. A song like “Paint the Red Rose Blue” imagines people who wallow in sadness, a sort of fetish of morose theatricality, but then ultimately realize--well--it feels good to feel good. “My Most Beautiful Mistake”, which features Atkins and saw her join the band on Friday (the first of a few songs she sang alongside The Imposters), is about a screenwriter who wants to write about working people in Hollywood but instead becomes obsessed with a waitress. “It’s not your reputation I’m trying to besmirch / I’m here undercover, writing this screenplay / You might be my inspiration, it’s beyond my control,” Costello sings. But it’s Atkins who gets the last laugh. As the two sing, “I’ve seen your kind before,” Atkins alone completes the sentence: “in courtroom sketches.” It’s a rail against self-importance, the type of “I can’t help it” toxic masculinity that Costello embodies in the song. 

The songs The Imposters chose to play from The Boy Named If on Friday embodied the same ethos as “My Most Beautiful Mistake”. “Penelope Halfpenny”, a boyhood fascination with a teacher with a past life in espionage, played off of “The Death Of Magic Thinking”, with its childlike “I Want Candy” drum thump. And “What If I Can’t Give You Anything But Love?” and “Magnificent Hurt” represented the more mature side of the record. The Imposters’ performance of the former all but ditched the raw blues of the studio version in favor of letting Costello’s words shine through. The latter proved itself to be an instant classic, quintessential Costello in title, exaggerated delivery, and the queasy keyboard line it’s built around. It was sandwiched between “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea” and “Pump It Up”, and I got the sense some casual fans assumed “Magnificent Hurt” was not a new song but canon heartbreak fodder.

Nick Lowe is of course connected to Costello through his writing of “(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding”, but his set mirrored the ebbs and flows of Costello’s very well, from the wistful “Lately I’ve Let Things Slide” (from 2001′s terrific The Convincer) to the jangly “Tokyo Bay”. And it’s easy to see where Atkins’ latest records fit with The Boy Named If. 2018′s Goodnight Rhonda Lee saw Atkins turn towards old styles of music like soul in order to help conquer parts of her past. 2020′s Italian Ice (Single Lock) expanded outward, trying to recreate the magic of the Jersey Shore with a murderer’s row of a backing band. Between self-evaluation and imagination, Atkins’ previous two albums capture the spirit of The Boy Named If, and she and her band burned through selections from the two records. The funk of “Domino” contrasted the languid “A Little Crazy”, while Atkins’ soulful vocals carried the weight no matter what the song was about, whether the nostalgia of “AM Gold” or the powerful reflection of “Goodnight Rhonda Lee”.

Saturday night, Lucinda Williams was just happy to be there. The masterful vocalist and guitar player suffered a stroke in November 2020, mere months after releasing the great Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers). While she’s unfortunately still unable to play guitar, she sang her heart out, her quintessentially lackadaisical drawl dominating “Steal Your Love”, “Can’t Let Go”, and two songs written about “dead misfits,” “Drunken Angel” and “Lake Charles”. Her band, Buick 6--guitarist Stuart Mathis, bassist David Sutton, and drummer Butch Norton--perfectly backed her up, whether the bluesy vamps of “Can’t Let Go” or the country crunch of “Changed The Locks”. The set was full of stories, how Williams sang her own song “Righteously” at a karaoke bar, how “Stolen Moments” was written after Tom Petty passed away, how her version of Memphis Minnie’s perennially relevant “You Can’t Rule Me” was, this time around, a direct shot at SCOTUS. By the time she and her band finished a ripping version of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World”--wonderfully, facetiously dedicated to corporate America--Williams didn’t want to leave the stage, opting to bask in the cheers.

As for Waxahatchee, well, they had to do something a little different this time: not cover a Lucinda Williams song, because they were opening for the real thing. “I consider tonight one of the great honors of my life,” Crutchfield said; the billing was an acknowledgement that she should carry the torch from Williams when the time comes. Songs from 2020′s Saint Cloud (Merge) shimmered like a hazy fire, including slow opener “Oxbow”, the rolling “War”, and the forlorn-sounding, yet determined “Can’t Do Much”. Crutchfield dedicated what might be her best song to date, “Lilacs”, an ode to self-sufficiency, to Williams. Hearing her sing, “I’ll fill myself back up like I used to do,” I couldn’t help but think that all of the weekend’s songwriters follow Crutchfield’s lead, creatively finding ways to explore new territories within themselves.

#live music #out of space #canal shores golf course #elvis costello & the imposters #nick lowe #los straitjackets #nicole atkins #lucinda williams #waxahatchee #steve nieve #charlie sexton #eddie angel #single lock #merge records #the boy named if #elvis costello #the imposters #capitol records #emi #katie crutchfield #the attractions #pete thomas #davey faragher #hey clockface #the convincer #goodnight rhonda lee #italian ice #single lock records #good souls better angels #highway 20

[olaskoolkitchen]

Ola's Kool Kitchen podcast 471 with sublime sounds from AKINE, Toro y Moi, La Luz, Panic Shack, The Lovely Basement, Ibibio Sound Machine, Confidence Man & @Nicole Atkins

#ola's kool kitchen #Akine #toro y moi #La Luz #panic shack #The Lovely Basement #Ibibibo Sound Machine #Confidence Man #Nicole Atkins

[andhowfm]

Ola's Kool Kitchen 471

Ola’s Kool Kitchen 471

Ola’s Kool Kitchen NOW on AndHow FM a show for those who just can’t get enough of good music with AKINE , Toro y Moi , La Luz , Panic Shack , The Lovely Basement , Ibibio Sound Machine , Confidence Man & Nicole Atkins.

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#Akine #andhow.fm #Confidence Man #Ibibio Sound Machine #la luz #nicole atkins #Ola&039;s Kool Kitchen #Panic Shack #The Lovely Basement #Toro Y Moi

[bilbao-song]

i did an extremely awful job taking photos at this concert + we were sitting far away at the top of a mountain but just for the sake of it, some photos from the other day :^)

#stevie nicks #thanks to my friend who did a better job than i did djdkdkskd #for some reason my lens kept fogging up and i was like #a little paranoid about running my battery down bc our transportation home depended on my phone lmao #but it was such a good concert!!!!! a nicole atkins was the opening act and i’ve wanted to see her since i was like…..idk a smallish child #if ur not familiar with her i would recommend checking her out. her voice is beautiful and she sounds perfect live #anyway! the tom petty appreciation!!!! my heart……………. #nonsense rambling

[helllamb]

“Tammy Faye” 

Nicole Dollanganger

#Nicole Dollanganger #Tammy Faye #Susan Atkins #Sadie Mae #text #words

[note-a-bear]

Me: I'm not gonna go to any shows for a while

Spotify: okay, but Nicole Atkins is playing a small venue at the end of the month.

Me:

#gif #moving image #imma go to the show believe that #ive wanted to see nicole Atkins live for a couple years now