The fall crowdfunding market has been robust enough for the past couple of months that it has allowed me to “theme” these columns, pulling together projects from similar artists or styles. This week, I’m going back and picking up some […]
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There’s plenty abloom in this week’s new releases. David Crosby is back with a strong solo(ish) record, and Town Mountain is staking its claim as a new kind of bluegrass band. We’ve got a postcard from outlaw country from Whitey […]
Gestures & Sounds are one of the hottest bands tearing up the West Coast right now, and their infectious sound is starting to take them into new territory. Today the band debuts their glorious video for “Bum Scotch Loser,” which […]
The original title for this week’s column was “Fish and Music I’ve Caught in the Stream,” and while it was pretty easy to collect some great music from playlists and recommendations on the various digitized platforms that I jump around […]
Jackie Greene & The Modern Lives Band World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA 10/4/2018 Wow, what a great show. I had shot Jackie Greene previously a few times with Trigger Hippy and I fully realize what an incredible musician and […]
He was the voice of the swamp people, his folksy, humorous accounts of the antics of his downhome neighbors in rural Louisiana providing him with a songwriting career that persuaded Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Brook Benton, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles, […]
A few months ago we met a concert promoter in Prosser, Washington. He’s a small-town minister for a church in the eastern part of the state, and an all-around great guy. After the show we sat around his house drinking […]
Houston Caldwell was a talented young musician who lived in Galax, Virginia, a hotbed of traditional old-time and bluegrass music, where the annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention has been held each year since 1935. Houston had recently graduated from high […]
Born in St. Louis and currently living in Seattle, folk artist Lizzie Weber has released a video for “You,” a beautiful and hauting tale of heartbreak from her recent EP of the same name. The video features the singer songwriter […]
With so much happening in the festival and concert world of late, I’m finally playing catch-up on some intriguing new releases that might otherwise get lost in the big-name autumn shuffle. As the title of this week’s column indicates, all […]
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