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Old Crow Medicine Show – New Album & Tour Dates Announced… Its about time boys!!!
Old Crow Medicine Show announces the release of their newest album, Carry Me Back, on July 17 through ATO Records! Carry Me Back is the band’s fourth studio album and first since 2008′s Tennessee Pusher, and features 12 brand new tracks that sonically span the band’s career while still pushing them forward in new directions [...]
Woody Guthrie Centenial Commemorated with Smithsonain Folkways Release – Book, Poster, 3CD set, Shirt, 6 Never Before Heard Original Songs
Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie (1912–1967), who would have turned 100 on July 14, 2012, wrote songs that became the soundtrack of an era and permanent fixtures of American identity. His early Dust Bowl ballads, along with more than 3,000 work songs, union and labor songs, political and philosophical songs, anti-war songs, anti-Nazi songs, love songs [...]
Audio Fidelity Showers April with Phil Collins Gold, Ten Years After Vinyl, and a Genesis Rarity for “Record Store Day”
Audiophile Reissues of Collins’ But Seriously, Ten Years After’s A Space in Time Due April 24th Dual-Speed Genesis EP Spot the Pigeon Arrives April 21 for “Record Store Day” Marshall Blonstein, president of Audio Fidelity, has announced April 24 as the release date for the reissue of two classic rock albums. Phil Collins’ chart-topping 1989 [...]
Levon Helm 1940 – 2012
Levon Helm passed peacefully the afternoon of April 19, 2012. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul. In a statement on his official website, Bob Dylan has posted the following message: “He was my bosom buddy friend [...]
Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” Gets Film Adaptation
From Variety magazine we just learned that the rights to one of Bob Dylan’s finest albums, Blood on the Tracks, has been acquired by a Brazilian film company to be adapted into an English-language feature film. Coincidentally (or not), Dylan is currently on tour in Brazil. For our South American readers (or Norte Americanos heading [...]
American Cadence Records Set to Release Charlie Abbott’s “Brand New Weather”
In the wake of the undeniable success that is Kiernan McMullan’s sophomore album, Two Years, American Cadence Records is preparing to bring something a little grittier to the table. Charlie Abbott embraces the indie scene and takes pride in stepping on the cracks, and this is evident in his forthcoming record. Charlie’s no stranger [...]
Charleston Trio Heyrocco Prepares for Album Debut, COMFORT
My regard for the unheard music of the world is widely known, and as a result I get emails from friends all over the place, telling me I should check out this band or that one. Most of the time, I have an enjoyable experience, but I move back to the favorites in my playlists [...]
T-Bone Burnett Produces New Lisa Marie Presley Album, Due Out May 15
On May 15, Lisa Marie Presley will release Storm and Grace, her first album in five years and her Universal Republic/XIX Recordings debut. The album was produced by 12-time GRAMMY® winner T-Bone Burnett and recorded at The Village in Los Angeles. (See below for track listing.) Storm and Grace is a marked departure from the [...]
James Taylor’s Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon, Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions ‘Go Gold’ Again in New Audio Fidelity Reissues
Gold CD Limited Editions of Two Landmark Albums of the Seventies to Be Released March 13 Marshall Blonstein, president of Audio Fidelity, has announced March 13 for the release of 24-Karat Gold CD reissues of James Taylor’s 1971 album MUD SLIDE SLIM AND THE BLUE HORIZON and Stevie Wonder’s 1973 INNERVISIONS. Both recordings will be [...]
Natalie Merchant’s Acclaimed Final Album with 10,000 Maniacs Gets Special Vinyl Treatment
10,000 MANIACS’ OUR TIME IN EDEN CELEBRATED IN 20th ANNIVERSARY REISSUE ON AUDIO FIDELITY’S TARGET IMPRINT Natalie Merchant’s Acclaimed Final Album with the Band Gets Special Vinyl Treatment on March 13th Marshall Blonstein, president of Audio Fidelity, has set March 13 for the release of 10,000 Maniacs’ 1992 album OUR TIME IN EDEN as a deluxe vinyl [...]
Johnny Cash Birthday Bash, Feb. 24-25 – Brooklyn
As reported in No Depression back in 2005: “One February night, along the half-abandoned Brooklyn waterfront, Johnny Cash had a birthday party. A couple hundred people had packed a former longeshoreman’s bar to hear the songs of Cash and his in-laws, the Carter Family. Outside, a steady stream of yellow cabs pulled up, delivering locals [...]
LONG-AWAITED SOPHOMORE ALBUM FROM KIERNAN MCMULLAN TO RELEASE MARCH 6
Two Years is like a musical diary of life on the road Kiernan McMullan, the talented singer/songwriter and musician, will release his latest album, Two Years, on March 6, 2012 with American Cadence Records here in the United States and on Love Gum Records in the United Kingdom in May and June of 2012. McMullan [...]
Ireland’s Cathy Jordan Goes All the Way Home with First Solo Album from Blix Street Records
Longtime Lead Singer of International Band Dervish to Tour U.S. in March To Coincide With Solo Project Blix Street Records will release Irish singer Cathy Jordan’s debut solo album, ALL THE WAY HOME, on March 13, 2012. A driving force in the internationally renowned Irish traditional band Dervish, Jordan is a singer, musician and composer whose [...]
Famed Singer Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon Releases Autobiography “Where The Action Is!”
FAMED SINGER FREDDY “BOOM BOOM” CANNON RELEASES AUTOBIOGRAPHY “WHERE THE ACTION IS!” Bio Written with Best-Selling Author Mark Bego for Publish America Contains Introduction by Dick Clark Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon, the talented singer of timeless hits of the ’50′s and ’60′s such as “Palisades Park,” “Tallahassee Lassie,” “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” and [...]


