Nicole Atkins - Radio Sessions 2017 + 2018

WFUV Live Session

Electric Lady Studios 

New York, N.Y.

Sept. 6, 2017

webstream (sound quality: Ex-; extraordinary sound for a webstream source)

SAMPLE: "Brokedown Luck" (live NYC 2017)

01 A Little Crazy

02 Darkness Falls So Quiet

03 Brokedown Luck

04 Colors

05 A Night of Serious Drinking 

06 Goodnight Rhonda Lee

07 Listen Up

08 thanks + intro last song

09 A Dream Without Pain

10 N.A. interview with 
      WFUV DJ Carmel Holt

WFMU Live Session

Jersey City, N.J.

January 2018 

(broadcast Feb. 2, 2018)

webstream (sound 
quality: VG+) 

01 Darkness Falls So Quiet

02 Goodnight Rhonda Lee

03 A Little Crazy

04 A Night of Serious Drinking

05 A Dream Without Pain

06 N.A. interview with 
      Sheila B of WFMU

ROB SEZ: Last Friday's post didn't do justice to this extraordinary artist. Pardon me for the caps lock, but YOU JUST HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE SAMPLE RIGHT NOW ... if not sooner. Go ahead; I'll wait. [...this is me, waiting...] OK, see what I mean? NICOLE ATKINS DESERVES TO BE A STAR. Her latest album, Goodnight Rhonda Lee is already a classic in my book (AllMusic's rating = 4 & 1/2 stars). I'm challenging all open-minded music fans to go stream it right now. I promise you'll thank me. So what's her sound? Take some Chris Isaac, Roy Orbison, Peggy

Fab photos of Nicole Atkins courtesy of WFUV, NYC

Lee, Nancy Sinatra, Patsy Cline and throw it in a blender. Add judicious quantities of the Muscle Shoals R & B sound, classic country and some rock, pour it over ice, and you have a musical cocktail that tastes amazing and will knock you out in the best possible way. Haven't heard a rant from me like this in a while, have you?!? There's a reason for that: no one's knocked my socks off like Nicole Atkins in a very long time. MEGA THANKS to WFUV & WFMU for sharing the good stuff. Enjoy photos and video from the WFUV live session here.

 

MP3@320 (interviews = 224kbps)

 

Learn more about Nicole Atkins' music at her 

official site, FB page, and at AllMusic