Ann Savoy is known for her work with the Savoy Family Band and the Savoy-Ducet Band, two of the the best modern-day practitioners of Cajun music. But on Black Coffee, to be released by Memphis International Records July 6, Savoy […]
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Listening to Small Cities’ debut full-length, Jackson Purchase, the impression I get is one of a completely American band (won’t my face be red if I find out their drummer is from Toronto or something). It’s the sort of music […]
With a voice slightly reminiscent of a young Steve Earle, solid songwriting, and musicians that include a member of Son Volt and veterans of the backing bands of Patty Griffin and John Mellencamp, Kevin Sekhani’s Sumner Street is one of […]
Beatles auteur and solo provocateur John Lennon would have been 70 on October 9, so naturally that provides some great marketing opps: eight of Lennon’s classic solo albums and other standout recordings have been digitally remastered, and while this is […]
My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel will release a solo album this summer. All Birds Say Available will arrive on August 31 via ATO Records. The guitarist, who joined MMJ in 2004, regularly played under his own name around Nashville while […]
Are you kidding me??? Planet Bluegrass ROCKS!!!! I just got back from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival for the first time and WOW! is all I can say. What fun!!! This was my first vacation in over 8 years since before […]
The twenty sides Ruby Johnson recorded for Stax/Volt in 1966-68 were finally released in something like album format in 1993, assembled under the title of the first track, I’ll Run Your Hurt Away. It appears to have been reissued subsequently […]
(Originally posted on Troubadour Blues: A Music Documentary) Mary Gauthier is on tour right now, doing about the most courageous thing I’ve ever seen an artist do. She gets up on stage in front of a roomful of strangers night […]
I am often amazed by the number of Texas musicians that attain notoriety in European countries before getting any attention here at home… Case in point – Houston based Richard Cagle and the Voodoo Choir spent some time recently in […]
Greg’s Grab Bag Various Artists – Smoke That Cigarette: Pleasure To Burn The reissue masters at Germany’s Bear Family Records have done it again with a new compilation dedicated entirely to cigarettes and smoking. Although smoking is not as prevalent […]
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