Red Clay Suzie

Emily Barker's talent is perfectly complimented by her band The Red Clay Halo, whose rootsy ensemble playing underpins Barker's agile vocal blend of strength and fragility. "Dear River" is the much-anticipated fourth studio album from Bafta and Ivor Novello award winning Emily Barker and her band The Red Clay Halo. It is a compelling song cycle and an unmistakable watershed in Emily's rapidly burgeoning career. The Deluxe version includes "The Dog House Sessions" Bonus album, an intimate acoustic recording of "Dear River", recorded live in one day.

"Almanac" is the third studio album by Anglo-Australian quartet Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo. It includes the song 'Pause', the theme tune from the award-winning soundtrack of BBC TV drama The Shadow Line.

The spirit of Lynyrd Skynyrd—especially their affection for Southern soul music—lives on in the Red Clay Strays. The Mobile, Alabama, band's 2022 debut, Moment of Truth displayed enough potential to bring on in-demand producer Dave Cobb for its follow-up, Made by These Moments; tracked in Cobb's Savannah, Georgia studio, the sound is carefully balanced and clear. The band's music is anchored by the soul-shouting vocals of Brandon Coleman, whose tight vibrato can take on a crying quality that adds pathos to these songs of pain, doubt and hope for redemption. In a power ballad like "No One Else Like Me," he describes himself and his mission: "I'm a broken writer, I'm a restless fighter, and I'm looking for a little hope/ I'm a shadowed thinker, I'm a one-eyed blinker at the end of his rope/ I'm a dead man walking, I'm a preacher talking about love and how to be free." Of course, this being Southern rock there's a bit of the devil in these boys.

The spirit of Lynyrd Skynyrd—especially their affection for Southern soul music—lives on in the Red Clay Strays. The Mobile, Alabama, band's 2022 debut, Moment of Truth displayed enough potential to bring on in-demand producer Dave Cobb for its follow-up, Made by These Moments; tracked in Cobb's Savannah, Georgia studio, the sound is carefully balanced and clear. The band's music is anchored by the soul-shouting vocals of Brandon Coleman, whose tight vibrato can take on a crying quality that adds pathos to these songs of pain, doubt and hope for redemption. In a power ballad like "No One Else Like Me," he describes himself and his mission: "I'm a broken writer, I'm a restless fighter, and I'm looking for a little hope/ I'm a shadowed thinker, I'm a one-eyed blinker at the end of his rope/ I'm a dead man walking, I'm a preacher talking about love and how to be free." Of course, this being Southern rock there's a bit of the devil in these boys. In "Ramblin'" a story that goes the whole way back to Robert Johnson's blues, Coleman, Drew Nix (guitar and vocals), Zach Rishel (guitar), Andrew Bishop (bass), and John W. Hall (drums) crank up the tempos and fuzzy guitar effects and rock out. There are also moments when the moody shadows of the Allman Brothers cross a tune, like in "Devil in My Ear," where Coleman concludes, "Depression and anxiety/ I can't shake the grip that they got on me/ I know the devil's gotten in my brain." Near the end of the album, Red Clay Strays unexpectedly cross over into Contemporary Christian Music as in the hand clap and slide guitar rave up, "On My Knees," where they repeatedly emphasize that they, "Praise The Lord, for bringing me peace." And on closer "God Does," Coleman fervently sings, "Wherever I'm lacking/ It's he who makes me whole/ Shining through the darkness/ Cleaning out my soul," mixing CCM and Southern rock into an original sound.

"Almanac" is the third studio album by Anglo-Australian quartet Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo. It includes the song 'Pause', the theme tune from the award-winning soundtrack of BBC TV drama The Shadow Line.

The spirit of Lynyrd Skynyrd—especially their affection for Southern soul music—lives on in the Red Clay Strays. The Mobile, Alabama, band's 2022 debut, Moment of Truth displayed enough potential to bring on in-demand producer Dave Cobb for its follow-up, Made by These Moments; tracked in Cobb's Savannah, Georgia studio, the sound is carefully balanced and clear. The band's music is anchored by the soul-shouting vocals of Brandon Coleman, whose tight vibrato can take on a crying quality that adds pathos to these songs of pain, doubt and hope for redemption. In a power ballad like "No One Else Like Me," he describes himself and his mission: "I'm a broken writer, I'm a restless fighter, and I'm looking for a little hope/ I'm a shadowed thinker, I'm a one-eyed blinker at the end of his rope/ I'm a dead man walking, I'm a preacher talking about love and how to be free." Of course, this being Southern rock there's a bit of the devil in these boys.

Red Clay is a soul/funk-influenced hard bop album recorded in 1970 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his first album on Creed Taylor's CTI label and marked a shift toward the soul-jazz fusion sounds that would dominate his recordings in the later part of the decade. It is Hubbard's seventeenth album.