North Carolina duo Mandolin Orange (Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz) have released Such Jubilee on Yep Roc Records. The new album follows the duo’s well-regarded 2013 release This Side of Jordan, which was named one of NPR’s Top 10 Folk and Americana […]
Australian Blues guitarist and singer, Fiona Boyes, has been variously described by reviewers as a ‘musical anomaly’, ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’, or simply as ‘scaring the hell out of me’. Boyes became the first woman and non-American to win the […]
The Ninth Annual Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 25-27 2015 at the beautiful Stephens Lake Park in Columbia, Missouri. First Launched in 2007, the festival features over thirty artists representing the […]
The Birthplace of Country Music organisation has announced the release on May 12 2015 of Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited. This album celebrates the impact that the 1927 Bristol Sessions in Bristol (Virginia/Tennessee) had on the country music […]
Originally hailing from rural Nebraska, Josh Rouse has carved out a distinguished career (ten albums since 1998) as a quality musician and songwriter. His new LP The Embers of Time was released this April via Yep Roc Records. “It’s my […]
Originally hailing from rural Nebraska, Josh Rouse has carved out a distinguished career (ten albums since 1998) as a quality musician and songwriter. His new LP The Embers of Time was released this April via Yep Roc Records. “It’s my […]
Velvet-voiced songwriter Eilen Jewell has been prolific. By my count, six original releases from 2005 to 2011’s critically-acclaimed Queen Of The Minor Key, then a double CD Live At The Narrows out in 2014. It’s been a four-year hiatus since […]
First of all, who is The Sky Colony? Well, it’s not that simple a question to answer, actually. The band has been around since 2012 but has transformed a few times since then. First, it was a three-piece with a […]
Beth Hart’s new album, Better Than Home (out April 10 on Mascot/Provogue), is a worthy follow-up to 2014’s Bang Bang Boom Boom. There’s a good deal of introspection and bravery in the eleven songs featured here, all of them written and composed by […]
Raised By Eagles is a four-piece outfit based in Melbourne Australia. The band’s eponymous debut album was a refreshing and thoroughly engaging entry into the alt. country/Americana scene, not just in Australia but anywhere, such was its quiet power, finesse and […]
