On March 23, Craft Recordings will release The Thousand Incarnations Of The Rose: American Primitive Guitar and Banjo (1963-1974) on 2LP, CD, and digital. This new compilation celebrates the groundbreaking, inventive approach to traditional instrumentation brought forward by an impressive group of maverick artists whose interpretations of folk, blues, and traditional song gave rise to… Continue reading 'The Thousand Incarnations of The Rose: American Primitive Guitar and Banjo (1963-1974)'
Hot off the heels of a sold-out 2017 – the annual ARISE Music Festival will return to beautiful Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado on August 3-5. The 2018 festival will feature live performances with Slightly Stoopid, Thievery Corporation, Trevor Hall, Pepper, Living Legends, Ott, Quixotic, Everyone Orchestra, The Lil Smokies and Dumpstaphunk along with over… Continue reading ARISE Music Festival Announces 2018 Lineup
Ghost Light is a true musical collaboration; five personalities, five perspectives, and five unique approaches towards one common sound. Foregoing current traditions, rather than initially focusing on live shows, the band played together for the first time in a recording studio in Philadelphia. This decision gave the band’s members – Holly Bowling, Tom Hamilton, Steve… Continue reading Just Announced: Ghost Light @ Fox Theatre | 5/11/18
It is nearly a month out from their San Rafael, CA play and Spafford have sold-out their single night at Terrapin Crossroads. Due to the overwhelming demand, the band now adds a second night at Phil Lesh’s famed venue. Spafford will now play a 2-night run over Saturday, March 3rd (sold out) and Sunday, March… Continue reading Due To Popular Demand, Spafford Announces 2nd Night At Terrapin Crossroads
Laura Benitez‘s new album, With All Its Thorns is an autobiographical collection of loving, open, vulnerable and ultimately heartbreaking songs. With her delicately distinctive voice, Benitez pulls from traditional country music and brings the sound to the present-day. Benitez tours and records with her band The Heartache, which includes Bob Spector on acoustic and electric… Continue reading Laura Benitez and The Heartache’s new record, "With All Its Thorns" Out Now
In 2017, she received an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award. This year, she will be inducted into the Alabama Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. With such accolades, it would be understandable if Louisa Branscomb chose to rest on her laurels at the comfort of her Alabama farm. Instead, the multi-award-winning artist and songwriter has been busy… Continue reading New Music coming from award-winning songwriter, Louisa Branscomb
Severn Records announces a March 9 release date for They Call Me Mud, the new CD from singer Mud Morganfield, son of the legendary blues icon, Muddy Waters. Produced by Mud Morganfield and Rick Kreher (who also plays guitar on the CD), They Call Me Mud was recorded at Joyride Studios in in Mud’s Chicago… Continue reading "They Call Me Mud" CD Coming from Mud Morganfield on March 9
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, January 25,26,27, the three soldout Tedeschi Trucks Band Chicago concerts marks a triumphant return to the windy city very the same week that Chicago’s WXRT radio announced TTB in the top ten list of best 2017 concerts. TTB was ranked at number 5 by the listener’s poll for their three sold out… Continue reading Tedeschi Trucks Band | Chicago, IL | January 2018
Whether traveling to gigs on horseback or by tour bus, Americana mavens The Brothers Comatose forge their own path with raucous West Coast renderings of traditional bluegrass, country and rock ‘n’ roll music. The five-piece string band is anything but a traditional acoustic outfit with their fierce musicianship and rowdy live shows reminiscent of stadium… Continue reading Just Announced: Brothers Comatose @ Fox Theatre | 4/26/18
Bozeman, MT-based bluegrass quartet Kitchen Dwellers are riding the wave of their sophomore release, Ghost in the Bottle, an album produced by Leftover Salmon’s Andy Thorn. The album also features Twiddle’s Mihali Savoulidis, who joined the band in the studio to record the album’s first single “Vision of More.” The band continues to relentlessly tour… Continue reading Just Announced: Kitchen Dwellers @ Fox Theatre | 4/18/18
