News Bits
- Old Crow Medicine Show – New Album & Tour Dates Announced… Its about time boys!!!
- Woody Guthrie Centenial Commemorated with Smithsonain Folkways Release – Book, Poster, 3CD set, Shirt, 6 Never Before Heard Original Songs
- Audio Fidelity Showers April with Phil Collins Gold, Ten Years After Vinyl, and a Genesis Rarity for “Record Store Day”
- Levon Helm 1940 – 2012
- Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” Gets Film Adaptation
- American Cadence Records Set to Release Charlie Abbott’s “Brand New Weather”
- Charleston Trio Heyrocco Prepares for Album Debut, COMFORT
- T-Bone Burnett Produces New Lisa Marie Presley Album, Due Out May 15
- James Taylor’s Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon, Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions ‘Go Gold’ Again in New Audio Fidelity Reissues
- Natalie Merchant’s Acclaimed Final Album with 10,000 Maniacs Gets Special Vinyl Treatment
Country Music Pride
- Stagecoach 2012 Review – Miranda, Blake, Aldean, Paisley, Alabama, Band Perry, Steve Martin & 20,000 Jason Aldean Posers.
- Keith Urban Surprised with Invitation to Join Grand Ole Opry
- CMA Fest Is Packed With Country Music’s Brightest Stars-Win Your Way In!
- Carter’s Chord Releases “Love A Little Bigger” Video and an Invitation to Chat with the Group Live April 17, 2012
- THOMPSON SQUARE WINS “VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR” at the 47th Annual ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS
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Old Crow Medicine Show – New Album & Tour Dates Announced… Its about time boys!!!
May 17, 2012 13:05 -
Woody Guthrie Centenial Commemorated with Smithsonain Folkways Release – Book, Poster, 3CD set, Shirt, 6 Never Before Heard Original Songs
May 14, 2012 16:05 -
Deer Tick at the Yost Theater – Cee Lo and McCauley’s Grill’s! A Show Review
May 11, 2012 11:05 -
The Brothers Comatose – “Respect The Van”
May 6, 2012 17:05 -
Alabama Shakes – “Boys & Girls” – (ATO)
May 4, 2012 23:05
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Colin Hay is a lovely guy, we supported him at a gig in Edinburgh a couple of ye -
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I hadn't heard of Colin Hay since Men at Work...and I got to see him just recent -
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You mentioned Imelda May. I saw her here in Atlanta a couple of years ago. She o -
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Posts Tagged ‘bluegrass’
The Brothers Comatose – “Respect The Van”
String bands are so prevalent these days that if you stand on any street corner in this country and throw a rock you just might hit one. Hailing from San Francisco, the Brothers Comatose are not just any old string band. Their latest and second full-length, Respect The Van, finds this exceptional quintet (brothers Alex [...]
Breaking Down the Fourth Wall with The Vespers’ Phoebe Cryar
Phoebe Cryar on Songwriting, Nashville, and Jam-Session-Campfire-Cookout-Things By Dacey Orr Not many kids get the opportunity to sing background vocals and hanging around studios in Music City, but for sisters Callie and Phoebe Cryar of family folk band The Vespers, it was just a part of growing up. “It’s crazy because when you grow up [...]
Album Review: Jim Lauderdale – “Reason and Rhyme” (Sugar Hill)
Reason and Rhyme is Jim Lauderdale’s latest studio album. This man has put out 19 albums of bluegrass, country, and sometimes pop music. Through his consistently solid song writing, Lauderdale has helped modern country music sound the way it does. Lauderdale is responsible for the country sound of the 90′s; everyone from George Strait to [...]
Album Review: Matt Bauer – “The Jessamine County Book of the Living” (Crossbill)
Matt Bauer, a Kentucky-born recording artist and songwriter, is awaiting the release of his second album, The Jessamine County Book of the Living (Crossbill Records, June 7, 2011). Bauer’s style could be described as neo-industrial folk, and his vocal delivery can best be articulated as a raspy whisper that makes Bill Anderson sound like a [...]
Album Review: Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers – “Rare Bird Alert” (Rounder)
Yes. That Steve Martin. Many of you may have seen Steve play the banjo on Saturday Night Live or have heard it on his comedy albums, although these were novelty performances at best. Rare Bird Alert is not a novelty. After winning a Grammy for best bluegrass album in 2010 for The Crow: New Songs [...]
“So I Want Out” – Booty Shakin’ from Junior League Band
Junior League Band‘s Jelly Roll made our Top 20-Something of 2010 for good reason. We were hit immediately with lead singer Lissy Rosemont’s distinctive and seductive voice, her jammin’ banjo licks and the band’s tight grooves. We love Jelly Roll because it takes some chances and breaks new ground while remaining true to blues, jazz, [...]
(Way More Than) 12 Questions with Larry Keel
By Lindsey Grossman Alt-grass legend and flatpicking guitar genius Larry Keel has been a busy guy this year. Keel launched a new website, Fishin’ and Pickin’, as well as a facelift of LarryKeel.com, complete with new music releases and daily fishing reports. Keel played a full summer schedule, hitting the biggest and best festivals and [...]
Album Review: Railroad Earth – “Railroad Earth” – (One Haven)
By Brian Lightfoot Railroad Earth’s self-titled release is a comfortable and confident layering of Southern rock, country and bluegrass. It is an undeniably American record with very naturally performed and recorded songs. Mixtures of sparkly acoustic instruments and twangy-to-growling telecaster tones matched with driving drum beats, semi-bluegrass bits, and some surprisingly funk- and rock-driven rhythms [...]
Two-Part Documentary: Mumford & Sons
Formed in 2007, this West London quartet has a gutsy, old-time sound choc-a-bloc with passion and a fresh, unbridled energy. They take their music seriously, but not themselves; we certainly appreciate that. The four friends (Marcus Mumford, Country Winston, Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane) were each playing in other bands when they found themselves performing Marcus’ [...]
Album Review: The Moaners – “Nocturnal” – (Holidays for Quince Records)
By Melissa Haklitch Embodying their Southern geography, The Moaners’ third release Nocturnal captures the loveliness that is bluegrass, while adding a certain element of garage rock and whimsy. Nocturnal ranges across the spectrum of many genres within its ten tracks. Having been previously compared to The White Stripes, The Moaners maintain their two-person ensemble of [...]
Album Review: “From The Land of Ice And Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin” (Jealous Butcher)
By Melissa Haklitch Having grown up in a house where Led Zeppelin set the standard for what is Music (with a capital M), I was excited to see Jealous Butcher Records is releasing a compilation covers album with some of the band’s greatest hits. Normally, I have some trepidation about modern bands trying to reproduce [...]
Contest Giveaway: Signed Copies of Marty Stuart’s Ghost Train
Sorry folks, but the winners were announced a while ago. Come back, though, because we always seems to have some wonderful stuff to give away to our loyal readers! – Editors That’s right, we’re giving away TWO copies of Marty Stuart’s critically acclaimed Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions which hit the streets today. (Three [...]
Live Performance Video: Lissy Rosemont of The Junior League Band – Atlanta, GA – 8/13/10
Touring behind the band’s third release, Jellyroll, D.C.-based Lissy Rosemont returned to her hometown of Atlanta with phenomenal guitarist John Lee. The intimate confines of Eddie’s Attic called for a paired-down version of The Junior League Band, but the duo more than made up for it with energy and impressive chops, featuring selections from Jellyroll [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters Fly High
With fingers flying across acoustic strings and a sound blending the finest traditions of American bluegrasss with the aesthetic sensibilities of the contemporary music, the Infamous Stringdusters embody today’s young, hip bluegrass scene. And with the release of their third album, Things That Fly, the Infamous Stringdusters are flying higher than ever. In laying the [...]
