Lisa and John McLaggan — better known as Tomato Tomato from New Brunswick, Canada — will be releasing their new album Canary In A Coal Mine in February 2019, but are offering a preview with the first single “Take It […]
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I spent this past weekend at the Blackpot Festival and Cook-Off, which takes place in Lafayette, Louisiana. This year marked the festival’s 13th year of celebrating and preserving South Louisiana’s traditional culture of gathering around the cast-iron pot for music, […]
ODE TO BOBBIE GENTRY: CELEBRATING A LIVING LEGEND TRIBUTE SHOW FOR COUNTRY MUSIC CULT HEROINE OCTOBER 30TH AT THE BELLHOUSE IN BROOKLYN In 1967, Bobbie Gentry released the Billboard chart topping and Grammy-winning single, “Ode to Billie Joe,” and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Features Bill Kirchen – Tale of the Tele Carlene Carter – Back in the fold David Bromberg – Picking and choosing Dolly Varden – Love will keep us together James Brown – I got you Joe Ely – Still running […]
Whereas saccharine hooks and indelible riffs lay at the forefront of much of the modern “folk” scene, Geoff Gibbons’ newest effort lives and breathes contemporary folk songwriting for all that it is worth. Throughout the EP, the Vancouver singer-songwriter weaves […]
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