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Salmon Mountain | Everything Is Free | Rayback Collective | 4/27/23

“I want my work to be seen as subtle by definition,” says three-time Juno Award nominee Del Barber. “I want my statements to come across as questions rather than decrees or opinions.” Barber’s way of seeing the world and his place within it takes center stage on his brand new album, Almanac. If Barber’s previous release, Stray Dogs: Collected B-Sides Vol. 1 felt like the end of one of life’s seasons, Almanac doggedly led him into the next.

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Today, Reckless Son—the moniker of New York-based musician Matt Butler—shares “St. Christopher’s Inn” from his forthcoming debut album, alongside an accompanying lyric video. Listen/share the song and watch/share the video HERE.

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The Mimi Fishman Foundation is once again hosting a WaterWheel Foundation on-line charity auction.  The auction features tickets for Phish’s 2023 Summer Tour.   The auction is now available for bidding and comes to a conclusion May 1, 2023

The auction can be found at https://www.mimifishman.org/auction/category/waterwheel-foundation

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Davy Knowles and his previous band ‘Back Door Slam’ have garnered rave reviews, national television appearances (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America), extensive triple-A radio airplay, and four top 5 Billboard Blues charting albums. As an in-demand blues man, he has appeared with The Who, Jeff Beck, Gov’t Mule, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Bonamassa, Sonny Landreth, and Joe Satriani among many others.

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Sierra Ferrell | In Dreams | Boulder Theater | 4/22/23
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Salmon Mountain | Traffic Jam | Rayback Collective | 4/27/23

Boundary-breaking and genre-defying are handy terms to use in describing musical artists, but while they can lend a certain cachet to a project, music that really eludes easy description is actually pretty rare. Still, if such terms can be applied to any group at all, the Jon Stickley Trio is at the head of the line for such treatment.

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After 49 years on the shelf, Drink Plenty Water, a long lost jazz recording from the late tenor sax master Clifford Jordan has been issued. Originally recorded for the Strata-East label in 1974, it is the only release in the Chicago native’s catalog that is primarily a vocal recording, with inventive arrangements courtesy of bassist Bill Lee.

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