March 2021

New Orleans funk powerhouse Dumpstaphunk has just unleashed a rendition of Buddy Miles’s 1973 acid-fueled blues anthem “United Nations Stomp," the third single from ‘Where Do We Go From Here,’ their first full-length album in seven years.

Charley Pride: I'm Just Me, a documentary about the life and career of legendary Country music superstar Charley Pride, will air on CBC's documentary Channel on Friday, March 12 at 9:00 pm E

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Today, Louisville, CO - raised soulful folk-rock singer-songwriter Robin Lewis proudly releases her latest single ‘Slow Fade’. As the story goes, Lewis was sitting on the dock of Lake Santeelah in North Carolina. The sun was setting and she was strumming her old Alverez guitar. She felt the noises of the world melt away and felt herself return to her body. “The words ‘slow fade, slow down, find yourself here again’ came to me and the song was created while sitting there watching the sun set,” said Lewis.

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Great news from Deadhead Stories: Since it first launched in 2019, Deadhead Stories–a now-legendary compendium of crowdsourced Grateful Dead lore, culture, miracles, and inspiration with the motto "a simple act of kindness goes a long way"–has sold out three printings. Deadhead Stories has been making regular contributions to the Rex Foundation ever since--$7,750 to date! --and we’ve been able to support quite a bit of good work as a result.

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After four decades out of the music limelight, singer-songwriter-guitarist James Holvay makes his return with a vital five-song slab of authentic Chicago-style soul music, Sweet Soul Song on his Mob Town Records imprint and set for release on April 16, 2021.

When released in 1970, “Mother,” the stark and startling album opener of John Lennon’s first post-Beatles solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, signaled a change in John’s songwriting, away from third person narratives and towards a more autobiographical, confessional style. Inspired by the primal scream psychotherapy he and wife Yoko Ono had been practicing with Dr.