Extraordinary collection of Southern black gospel 1951-1983 Ernest L. Young’s Excello and Nashboro labels have a creation story that would be tough to duplicated today. Young started as a successful jukebox operator in Nashville before adding a retail store that […]
If you don’t already know about the Hard Working Americans, they are: Dave Schools (bass guitar – from Wide Spread Panic), Neal Casal (guitar and vocals – from the Cardinals…-as in Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- and Chris Robinson Brotherhood), […]
John and Sylvia Embry were purveyors of wild and wooly, screamin’ gospel-soaked blues in 1970s Chicago. Delmark Records has resurrected the only album they recorded together, originally called After Work and long out of print, recorded in ’79, now retitled […]
There are some artists who continually push and pull themselves into new artistic terrain with each release. And there are some artists who stay within their creative comfort zone and try to make it the best it can be with […]
(first published at Down at the Crossroads) Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is a very important movie that depicts the brutal horror of slavery in the Southern states of the US before the Civil War. It tells the true story of Solomon […]
A group of Oklahoma musicians are headed to Kansas City this month to showcase their talents at the 26th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference. Representatives from all aspects of the music industry will attend the event, which is one of […]
Susan Tedeschi says when she and Derek Trucks talked about uniting in a band after a decade of marriage they knew there were risks. Tedeschi was a perennial Grammy nominee, both for rock and blues. Trucks had played with Buddy […]
