Adam Klein Album Release and Russell Cook & the Sweet Teeth

Adam Klein is a versatile and prolific Atlanta-based and Athens, Georgia-bred singer/songwriter and troubadour playing folk, folk rock, Americana, and West African Mande-influenced music with nine records under his belt. His latest album, Live at Leesta Vall Sound Recordings (released April 3rd), features acoustic duo performances of both released and unreleased material recorded direct to lathe-cut vinyl in New York City in 2019 with Athens' ace violinist Adam Poulin.

Klein’s songwriting and active years of touring have earned accolades from Americana and folks press, multiple albums on the Euro Americana chart, an official performance at Folk Alliance, and shared stages with a long list of revered songwriters and bands including James McMurtry, Josh Ritter, Steep Canyon Rangers, Shovels & Rope, Larkin Poe, Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet featuring Bela Fleck.

Klein’s records have featured a who’s-who of talented musicians from Athens and beyond, including longtime producer, engineer, drummer, and vocalist Bronson Tew, singer/songwriter and activist Kyshona, producer David Barbe, David Blackmon (Widespread Panic, Jerry Reed), Randall Bramblett, Jay Gonzalez and Matt Patton (Drive-By Truckers), Bryan Howard and Carlton Owens (Cracker), Lera Lynn, and pedal steel maestro John Neff.

Klein’s music has been lauded for its “poetic penmanship” (Lonesome Highway), described as “moving folk rock” (Creative Loafing), and he’s been called “the next great American songwriter that delivers an orchestrated sound where picturesque words and musical landscapes make a song more than just a ‘tune’.” (Glide Magazine) In Live at Leesta Vall, the intrinsic qualities of Klein and his songs take center stage. The landscapes, if muted, remain powerful and perhaps wondrous. Beyond a set of tunes, these are cinematic, worn and lived-in worlds unto themselves, brought forth in a heightened yet loose moment of channeled inspiration. They are expressions which have been earned, inhabiting, as Gordon Lamb wrote of Klein’s work in Flagpole Magazine, a “still hopeful but learned repose of deep adulthood.”

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Russell Cook & the Sweet Teeth use sharp-edged songwriting to open up an airtight groove of electrified Americana. What started as a singer-songwriter project gradually morphed into an exploratory group with a focus on improvisation. Propelled by ace drummer Jeremy Clark, the Teeth play original music mixed with elements of traditional blues, country, and old-time. They try to push the music to see where it will go, using songs as the structure while staying open to spontaneity and playing in the moment. Russell Cook & the Sweet Teeth mine a vein of Americana that veers from electrified country blues and opens up into wide-open cosmic rock.

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