(Jambase.com) There isn’t a Dobro player alive who doesn’t owe Tut Taylor. Taylor is a towering figure in the world of acoustic music, championed for his flat-picking mastery by generations of fellow musicians and connoisseurs of rural American music. One […]
Video: Eddie Vedder – Better Days (warning – Julia Roberts content): http://tinyurl.com/2e8xxxe …and Eddie and others join in on Ron Wood’s solo disc: http://www.spinner.com/2010/08/23/ron-wood-solo-album-i-feel-like-playing/ God Bless America Part 3 – Burger King’s NY Pizza Burger: http://eater.com/archives/2010/08/18/behold-the-bk-whopper-bar.php Free d/l of the […]
Chain Live Chain (Aztec Music) Aztec Music in Australia are continuing their wonderful program of re-releasing lost Australian classics from the early seventies. The sound quality is amazing considering the primitive state of most Australian recording of the time. I […]
I’m proud to announce that Episode 14 of the Taproot Radio Podcast has just been released. This episode features and interview with Caleb Klauder and three songs from his recent Western Country CD.
My piece on the music of Patty Griffin and Robert Randolph at Faith and Leadership, a website hosted by Duke University Divinity School, in which I explore the spiritual themes and their uses of our religious past in the present: […]
In no especial order… (1) I finally put the Courtyard Hounds album in the CD player in the little red truck, though it wasn’t what I was listening to when I backed into the football player this afternoon. It leaves […]
(Jambase.com) Rounder Records has announced the release of Louisiana Cajun and Creole Music: The Newport Field Recordings. Due September 28, this CD release encompasses 27 tracks on one disc, and is comprised of recordings made over the years 1964-67 by […]
Thrift Store Cowboys Light-Fighter October 12 Produced by Craig Schumacher Thrift Store Cowboys fourth studio album Light-Fighter (out October 12) could be called their post-arson period, as Daniel Fluitt and band wrote the record after a stranger torched their gear […]
Originally posted at Me, Myself, Music and Mysteries So last week I wrote that after listening to Colin Spring‘s 2005 release How I Came To Cry These Tears Of Cool I went to CDBABY and bought his new album Highballs […]
Yes I finally have a solo publication as a poet. Not bad after 25 years of writing. It is due to be released soon according to Amazon and you can pre-order from there and Asda (links below). My thanks to […]
