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Concord Music Group will release Albert King's I’ll Play the Blues for You as part of its Stax Remasters series on May 22, 2012.
Singer/songwriter Darryl Holter announces an April release date for his latest CD, Crooked Hearts, on 213 Music.
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Wintersleep has spent the last decade establishing, developing, and re-inventing their sound to share with audiences around the world. After winning a Juno Award for 2007’s Welcome To The Night Sky, touring extensively in support of 2010’s New Inheritors and performing on The Late Show With David Letterman last year, the band settled down during the summer of 2011 to focus on their next endeavor.
With some of the festivals already announced, it's time to tell you about Dark Star Orchestra's Meet Me At The Jubilee Summer Tour 2012, an over two-month trek that guarantees you'll want to hit the road and won't be back til the fall.
Kathy Mattea, the beloved Grammy-winning singer of such classics as “18 Wheels and A Dozen Roses” and “Where’ve You Been,” has signed with Sugar Hill Records. The label has plans to release Calling Me Home, what Mattea describes as a love letter to her home state of West Virginia, later this year. “Signing at Sugar Hill is like coming home.
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The big announcement is two special Hairball Willie reunion shows in the Chicago area. It has been 17 years since the last performance of the "classic lineup" of
Sonny Landreth’s 11th album, bearing the fittingly evocative title Elemental Journey, is something very different from the Louisiana slide wizard. Released on his own Landfall label on May 22, 2012, the new CD is Landreth’s first all-instrumental effort and his most adventurous work to date.“From day one on the guitar, many genres of music have had an impact on me” says Landreth. “For these recordings, I drew from some of those influences that I hadn’t gone to on previous albums with my vocals.
Martin Sexton is a powerhouse of sound. He can easily fill a room, and every heart therein, and he don’t need no stinking band. His songwriting ability and vocal abilities come through solid on his records, but live on stage is the proper way to experience Sexton.
