December 2017
One of the longest running Grateful Dead tribute bands in the world, Shakedown Street, makes its home in and around the Rocky Mountain region of North America. Spawned from jam sessions at the Ancient Mariner bar in Manitou Springs, Colorado in 1987, Shakedown Street quickly grew in popularity, and garnered a legion of loyal fans who refer to themselves as "Shakeheads". In a few short years, throngs of "Shakeheads" could be found on the highways and byways of the Rocky Mountains, making their way to another Shakedown Street show.
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MerleFest, presented by Window World, is proud to announce new artist additions to the lineup for MerleFest 2018, which will be held April 26 - 29, 2018: Elephant Revival, Rhiannon Giddens, Rodney Crowell, and Shinyribs. The annual homecoming of musicians and music fans returns to the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
Fully remixed and remastered with five bonus tracks, Americana singer-songwriter Steve Hartsoe releases a new version of his 2016 album “The Big Fix” on Friday, Dec. 1.
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Country Music Roots and GRAMMY Award-winning Ensemble Old Crow Medicine Show joins recent GRAMMY Award-nominee Kesha for an all-new “CMT Crossroads” collaboration premiering THIS Wednesday, December 6 at 10 PM ET/PT.
Taped in front of a live audience and led by accomplished string band Old Crow Medicine Show the one-hour show features new twists on Old Crow Medicine Show favorites “Wagon Wheel,” “Tell It To Me” and the all-new, never-before-heard song “Flicker & Shine.”
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We’re a Mexican American band, and no word describes America like immigrant. Most of us are children of immigrants, so it’s perhaps natural that the songs we create celebrate America in this way.” So says Louie Perez, the “poet laureate” and primary wordsmith of Los Lobos, when describing the songs on the band’s new album, Gates of Gold.
Nashville-based country pop singer Emily Hackett recorded a cover of John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" just in time for the holidays. "Recording this song has always been on my bucket list and the timing of it just seemed so appropriate with everything going on in the world this year."
