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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I've never heard of them, thanks for the review Jennifer, Just got them playing -
Ashton Lane:
Colin Hay is a lovely guy, we supported him at a gig in Edinburgh a couple of ye -
Kim:
I hadn't heard of Colin Hay since Men at Work...and I got to see him just recent -
ATF:
You mentioned Imelda May. I saw her here in Atlanta a couple of years ago. She o -
Jennwith2ns:
Thanks for this great review of my Uncle Phil's album. I've heard the demos and
Posts Tagged ‘music’
The New Standard by Which All Other Albums Will Be Judged – Maple Ridge by Swear and Shake
I’d heard a few sneak peek tracks of Maple Ridge and knew that something special was coming. With the release of These White Walls, the first single from the record, I could already tell that Swear and Shake had upped their game considerably. I thought I was adequately prepared for the remaining songs, but I [...]
Album Review: Comfort by Heyrocco
Charleston-based trio Heyrocco has really gone above and beyond expectation with their first LP, Comfort. After setting their first EP on repeat, I thought I knew what this band was all about. The Friends Mixtape put forth catchy, upbeat tunes with some clever lyrics and prodigious musicianship. I say prodigious because one or two of [...]
Jim Avett Talks About Family, Nashville, New CD "Tribes"
When asked about his plans for Father’s Day, Jim Avett simply said, “Not a thing. There’s nothing special about Father’s Day as far as I’m concerned. I get the gift of being a daddy every day.” If you’re ever lucky enough to spend an hour talking with this man, you’ll realize that every day really [...]
Win Free Copies of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s New CD!
We love Mary Chapin Carpenter’s new CD, The Age of Miracles. Judging by the emails we’ve gotten here and the many comments over at our No Depression page, fans are also excited. In case you missed it, people are saying wonderful things about her music: …a mostly quiet album, yet luckily free from melancholy navel-gazing. [...]
NBC News Anchor Brian Williams A Big Deer Tick Fan
BREAKING NEWS! This just in, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is a huge Deer Tick fan — he considers them to be “a great band.” (OK, so this isn’t “breaking news” — we just couldn’t resist.) Back in April, Williams interviewed Deer Tick on MSNBC’s “BriTunes”, Williams’ own music video channel. He’s saluted iTunes [...]
Q&A: Blackberry Smoke
The faint aroma of incense eased through the air of Nashville’s Mercy Lounge as the five longhaired, Skynyrd-esque rockers of Blackberry Smoke took the stage. Often cited as “Too Country for Rock, Too Rock for Country”, Blackberry Smoke delivered a foot stompin’, lighter-wavin’, ‘hell yeah’ of a good time that fully lived up to the [...]
Truth & Salvage Co.
Every so often you come across a band whose music sort of reaches out and shakes hands with your soul. That’s just what the music of LA’s own Truth & Salvage Co. did to me. It’s a nice feeling, too, considering the vastly diluted pool of modern Americana rock bands fending for a spot on [...]
Jason Boland: What's going on in the sticks these days?
It began with Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family in the 1920s, but country music has come a long way since the days of “Blue Yodel No. 1″ and “Wildwood Flower.” In the early 1940s it was Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs, and later honky tonk was born with Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams. [...]
Haggard brings back old-school country in "I Am What I Am"
What would you have if the past 25 years of country music history had never occurred? You would Merle Haggard’s new album, I Am What I Am. Released on his Hag Records label, this is old-school country gold from the era of AM radio and 8-track tapes played on long 55-mph road trips. It is [...]
So The Tallest Man on Earth isn’t super tall.
How many times a day do you think he hears that? But it’s cool…some jokes are overused because they’re funny every time (this actually might NOT be one of those times, but I’m going to stick with it). I spend last evening at UCSD’s The Loft, checking out The Tallest Man on Earth. I showed [...]
Shelby Lynne's Tears, Lies and Alibis CD GIVEAWAY!
“Shelby Lynne sings in quick, blunt bursts, suggesting the kind of jabs you don’t see coming but which can drive you to your knees …” — The NY Daily News “Lynne’s music explores a diverse range of genres and sounds. In a business that prefers its artists be a ready fit for categorization … Lynne [...]
Jim Lauderdale – Patchwork River – (Thirty Tigers)
Jim Lauderdale is a musician’s musician, an artist’s artist, a songwriter’s songwriter. In short, he’s not a household name. That is unless your household contains music by Elvis Costello (Lauderdale sang all of the harmony vocals on Costello’s superb Secret, Profane and Sugarcane from 2009), Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Shelby Lynne, John Mayall, George Strait, [...]
The Jayhawks' "Bunkhouse Album" Finally Available on CD
Legendary alt-country pioneers The Jayhawks will reissue their 1986 self-titled debut (aka The Bunkhouse Album) for the first time ever on CD. Originally released by Bunkhouse Records with a pressing of 2000 vinyl copies, the CDs (and more vinyl) will be available from Lost Highway Records on May 18th. The reissue will include an eight-page [...]
Chely Wright Acknowledges Her Homosexuality
Her announcement to People Magazine coincides with the release of her new album and memoir
