Song-specific news or information or songwriting-related
Together, McPeake and May have collaborated to present their versions of songs and arrangements they both love, … recorded … just two months before McPeake’s 90th birthday. (Well done fellows!) Aubrey Haynie adds fiddle work and Tim Dishman is on bass and harmony vocals. As the CD jacket indicates: “Heckuva good time!”
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Americana and Country Music radio stations across the nation are continuing to play Room for Roots as we head into 2017. “Woman in the Wings” spent 2 weeks at #2 and 8 weeks in the top 10 on Roots Music Report’s Americana Country Song Chart and reached #16 on their overall Country Song Chart. Another original song, “Life’s a Gig,” reached #24 on the IndieWorld Country Chart. ⇨ Read more
I love [Room for Roots]! Well written. Well sung. Solid heartfelt songs. Well played and well produced! ⇨ Read more
There are plenty of fine songs on 2016’s “Room for Roots,” and “Haggard and the Queen” feels like a natural for our Sokol Heroes radio show on WRSI, focusing on artists with roots and connections to Western MA. It’s catchy, heartfelt, and tells an engaging true story…. ⇨ Read more
I’ve been waiting a long time for this album, it was worth the wait. …[T]here are few other songwriters who get small town and real American life than Andy May. “Room for Roots” is one of his best examples of that skill. …You can feel the salt of life in his songs. The album has the great acoustic simplicity for most of the songs that just lets Andy’s soul shine through.
Andy seems to write of only real life; if not life lived by himself, then life that is carefully observed and empathized with until a true story emerges. ⇨ Read more
Room For Roots immediately strikes for Andy’s gripping vocal performances: his voice sounds wise and seasoned, yet youthful and energetic, creating a beautiful dualism. I immediately feel like I am sitting in a room listening to the amazing stories of an old friend who jut came back to town after traveling the world and collecting incredible tales of people, places, songs and ideas – and he tells the stories so well you almost feel as if you were there.
The production by Andy May is perfect for the material presented, very clean and uncluttered. The emphasis seems to be on the lyrical content, so the vocals are clear and right up front, with the backing musicians’ individual instruments very well defined and spread across the entire soundstage. ⇨ Read more