Preparations for the 2021 Main Line Bike Race and Ardmore Rock N’ Ride Music Festival are officially underway. On August 21st the family-friendly, outdoor, fundraiser event will bring the Ardmore and surrounding community together for a day of cycling, live music, food and more.

Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdale’s 34th album, Hope, is out today on Yep Roc Records; listen/buy here.
 
Co-produced by Lauderdale and his longtime collaborator Jay Weaver, Hope was recorded at the fabled Blackbird Studios In Nashville with many of the tracks engineered by Blackbird Academy students. A joyous musical tribute to the spirit of overcoming and healing, the album features songs of hope, courage, and perseverance.
 

What a return to live music. The atmosphere was electric. The venue, freshly expanded, and the band… they were dead on. This was Phish’s first-time playing Arkansas. Only 4 states remain that have yet to be graced by the greatness.

Acclaimed and Grammy®-nominated acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter TOMMY EMMANUEL—one of five people ever named a CPG (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins—has announced he will release his new EP, ACCOMPLICE SERIES VOL. 2 with Richard Smith, on September 10. Smith is the revered British fingerpicking acoustic guitarist who has performed or recorded along the way with Chet Atkins, Les Paul and Tommy Emmanuel among others.

Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer and musician Billy Strings will release his highly anticipated new album, Renewal, September 24 via Rounder Records (pre-order here). Ahead of the release, new song, “Fire Line,” is debuting today. Listen/share HERE

More than 30 years after its release, OZZY OSBOURNE’s sixth solo album--the Top 10 (#7) and quadruple platinum NO MORE TEARS will be celebrated with an expanded digital audio album due out September 17 (Sony). Two special editions--a 2LP black vinyl version and a special yellow and red 2LP vinyl version with a specially created booklet (exclusively at www.towerrecords.com)--will be released simultaneously. Pre-order the album here.

“Echoes Through The Canyon”—Brandi Carlile’s triumphant return to Washington’s legendary Gorge Amphitheatre—will be simultaneously livestreamed via Veeps on Saturday, August 14 (tickets available here). In addition to Carlile, the historic concert will feature nine-time Grammy Award winning artist, close friend and frequent

On his aptly-titled Provogue Records’ debut, ‘What Happens Next,’ out October 22nd, roots singer-songwriter and guitarist Davy Knowles boldly steps forward with timeless and cohesive songwriting; sleek modern production; and a lyrical, play-for-the-song guitar approach informed from soul, folk, rock, and blues. The 12-song album is just as influenced by The Black Keys, Fantastic Negrito, Gary Clark Jr., as it is Muddy Waters, Junior Kimbrough, and R.L. Burnside.

In his debut solo release coming out via Color Red on August 6, 2021, Danny Mayer (Eric Krasno Band, Alan Evans Trio) concocts a mixture of old-school psychedelic funk blended with a “Go-Go”-style drumbeat in “Basic Goodness.” The song title is inspired by a concept coined by Tibetan spiritual teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

As Johnny Cash prepared to perform his soon-to-be classic "Cocaine Blues" at San Francisco's Carousel Ballroom in April 1968, he offered an introduction that is fascinating in its matter-of-factness: "here's another song from the show we did at Folsom prison.