Gem Andrews Scatter Self-Release/website **** AH Deep, dark and beautiful Americana love songs for the lonely and broken hearted For once, you really can judge a CD by the cover, as the superb photograph […]
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Marty Stuart’s music is everything country should be. The minute I put his just-released album “Tear the Woodpile Down” into my player, I felt as if I had come home. There’s something about the instrumentation — especially the lush steel […]
I’ve just returned from Northern Italy where I’ve been working on the debut solo release by the violinist, singer and songwriter Chiara Giacobbe. Formerly of the roots-rock band Lowlands, Chiara’s recently been guesting with local heroes, The Mandolin Brothers, and […]
Here’s a few new Americana and roots-type music releases for the week of April 24th, 2012. Click the artist or album links to find out more. The artist’s names link to their websites and the CD title links go either […]
The From Out Of Nowhere Podcast – Episode 54 – Dan Baird This week over at the From Out Of Nowhere Podcast we sit down with former Georgia Satellites and current Homemade Sin frontman Dan Baird and discuss his new […]
I have been fascinated recently The Speech Project, the brainchild of musician Gerry Diver. It is a really different take on old-time Irish music. The first track I heard gives the flavour. If you click on it now, give it […]
I’d like to tell you a story which came to mind while watching the above video. The first bit of long fiction I ever seriously attempted became a novel called Life and Death. I wrote it over the course of a […]
Suburban Dirts – Suburban Dirts (Old Jank, 2012) Suburban Dirts are a British electric folk blues band that’s heavily influenced by Dylan’s mid-60s classics, Bringing it All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Their original “Lost in Transcription” riffs closely […]
Nate Burrell has once again generously allowed us to feature his great photography on Now This Sound Is Brave. This Record Store Day found JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound in St. Louis where they made an in-store appearance at […]
The older kid and I have been immersed of late in the music gathered by John and Alan Lomax, Harry Smith, assorted other academics and folklorists, and the painstaking process of keeping old music alive with the help of government agencies […]
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