Rufus Thomas’s Do the Funky Chicken, Shirley Brown’s Woman to Woman, and the Dramatics’ Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get are fortified with bonus tracks LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In 1968, on the heels of the label’s severance from Atlantic Records, […]
Festavarians hate making decisions…especially the difficult ones. I’ve done some of the heavy lifting for you. Here’s a recommended minute-by-minute plan for Saturday at the Newport Folk Festival. Note that this was VERY hard to do and I would pay damn good money […]
Italian by birth but now resident in London Trent Miller has honed his skills playing local gigs in London and touring in his homeland, Welcome to the Inferno is his second album and is set for release on the Bucketfull […]
I’ve entered 20 photographs from my book, Nashville’s Lower Broad: The Street That Music Made, In a competition and need your vote. Please go to: http://lowerbroad.see.me/onelife2011 to see the images and please vote. The dead line for voting is Friday […]
BoDeans lead singer’s new solo album due October 25 MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Sam Llanas (pronounced yanas), lead singer-guitarist for the acclaimed Milwaukee band the BoDeans, takes listeners deep into the night on his new release, 4 A.M., arriving Oct. 25 […]
By Ross Altman In memory of Joel Okida, fellow FolkWorks writer (courtesy of FolkWorks) Driving through Carmageddon to get to Bob Dylan’s sold-out opening night concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa at the Orange County […]
Smithfield Music’s Aiken and Friends Fest is excited to announce the lineup for this year’s festival. This 6th annual Americana/roots festival will take place in Smithfield, Virginia from September 30th to October 1st. Artists for the songwriters in-the-round concert on […]
with Douglas Heselgrave Calgary Folk Festival – July 23, 2011 In a perfect world, Ernest Ranglin would need no introduction. The 79 year old Jamaican guitarist has made inestimable contributions to the development of ska and reggae music – having played […]
From The Fields is the new album from South Devon duo The Carrivick Sisters, a heady combination of traditional bluegrass instrumentation with a splash of pedal steel and a folk sensibility taking inspiration from the sites and sounds of the […]
Good morning boys and girls. Today’s question comes from a No Depression community member from the great state of Illinois. They wrote in to ask this: “Is it me or has there been a bit more frequent edge to the […]
