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Dar Williams Signs To Bread & Butter

Featuring collaborations with Jill Sobule, Richard Thompson, Jim Lauderdale, the Milk Carton Kids, the Hooters, Lucy Wainwright Roche 

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Dar Williams to release her brand new album “EMERALD” on Bread and Butter Music May 18th 2015 and tour with dates in UK, Ireland and Germany

 

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Dar Williams’s growth as an individual over her two-decade career has gone hand-in-hand with her evolution as an artist. This is perhaps best typified by the release of “Emerald,” a timely and brilliant album of new songs and collaborations with friends such as Jill Sobule, Richard Thompson, Jim Lauderdale, the Milk Carton Kids, the Hooters, Lucy Wainwright Roche and her mother Suzzy Roche and others. It marks her debut with the UK label, Bread and Butter (Essential) and is a sparkling collection of new original material, inspired collaborations and some surprising covers such as B.A.D.’s “Johnny Appleseed” making this album one of her best yet.

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Raised in Chappaqua, N.Y., Williams spent 10 years living in the thriving artistic community of Northampton, Mass., where she began to make the rounds on the coffeehouse circuit. Joan Baez, an early fan of her music, took Williams out on the road and recorded several of her songs. The rest is history. Williams most recently released a live recording celebrating the 20th Anniversary of her legendary album, “The Honesty Room.”

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In addition to being a touring artist, Williams is an author, teaches a course at Wesleyan University, and conducts annual song writing seminars. Williams devotes much of her time to environmental issues and causes, and has created “Give Bees A Camp” which combines concerts and the planting of bee-friendly gardens for young campers.

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Tracklisting

1. Something to Get Through
2. FM Radio
3. Empty Plane
4. Emerald
5. Slippery Slope
6. Here Tonight
7. Girl of the World
8. Mad River
9. Weight of the World
10. Johnny Appleseed
11. New York is a Harbor

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Something to Get Through    
Dar Williams – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Josh Kaler – Drums, Bass, Guitars, Lap Steel, Keys
Courtney Jaye – Harmony Vocal
Tom Whall – Harmony Vocal

FM Radio       
Dar Williams- acoustic guitar, vocals
Aaron Sterling- drums
Jonny Polonsky- electric guitars
Jill Sobule- vocals, electric guitar
Olivia Wood- backing vocals
Vanessa Wood- backing vocals

Empty Plane      
Trevor Gordon Hall (guitars)
Stance Mason (Bass)
Jeff Haynes(Wave Drum,Percussion)
Rob Scheps Sax

Emerald 
Richard Thompson (Guitar)
Stance Mason (Bass)

Slippery Slope
ROB HYMAN – WURLITZER PIANO
Dave Jacques (bass)
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Here Tonight     
Dar Williams – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Josh Kaler – Drums, Bass, Guitars, Keys
Angel Snow – Harmony Vocal
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Girl of the World 
Heidi Breyer (Piano)
Eugene Freisen (Cello)
Stance Mason (Acoustic Bass Guitar)
Jeff Haynes (Frame Drum)
Will Ackeman Guitar
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 Mad River     
Dar Williams- acoustic guitar, vocals
Aaron Sterling- drums
Jonny Polonsky- electric guitars
Kenneth Pattengale- backing vocals
Joey Ryan- backing vocals
Chick Wolverton- percussion
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Weight of the World     
Dar Williams Lead vocal
Suzzy Roche vocals
Lucy Wainwright Roche vocals
David Mansfield guitar/violin/viola
Marry Wooten cello

Johnny Appleseed         
ERIC BAZILIAN – ELECTRIC GUITAR, HURDY-GURDY, BACKING VOCALS
ROB HYMAN – WURLITZER PIANO, BACKING VOCALS, ADDITIONAL DRUMS
JOHN LILLEY – DOBRO
FRAN SMITH, JR. – BASS
DAVID UOSIKKINEN – DRUMS    

New York is a Harbor     
Dar Williams Lead Vocal
Bryn Roberts Piano

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 Listen “Emerald” here:

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UK Tour  
with Lucy Wainwright Roche

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21st May – Birmingham The Glee Club

www.glee.co.uk/birmingham

b/o 0871 472 0400

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23rd May – Belfast Errigle Inn

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24th May – Dublin The Workmans Club

http://theworkmansclub.com
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26th May – London The Jazz Cafe

http://thejazzcafelondon.com

b/o 0844 847 2514
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28th May – Liverpool Arts Club

https://artsclubliverpool.com
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29th May – Otley Korks

www.korks.co.uk

b/o 0113 245 5570
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30th May – Germany, Krefeld Kulturfabrik  (nr Dusseldorf)

www.kulturfabrik-krefeld.de

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1st June – Brighton Komedia

www.zazamusic.co.uk www.komedia.co.uk/brighton

b/o 0845 293 8480

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – The Bros. Landreth

The Bros. Landreth
Let It Be

Release Date:
8 June 2015

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“Leave it to a group of Canadians to dish up some of the best Southern-style blues we wolfed down all weekend. … a quiet storm of slide guitar solos, blue notes, three-part harmonies …”. 
Rolling Stone: 20 Best Things We Saw at Americana Music Fest 2014

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Anchored by the bluesy wail of electric guitars, the swell of B3 organ, and the har- monized swoon of two voices that were born to mesh. At first listen, you might call it Americana. Dig deeper, though, and you’ll hear the nuances that separate The Bros. Landreth — whose members didn’t grow up in the American south, but rather the iso- lated prairie city of Winnipeg, Manitoba — from their folksy friends in the Lower 48.

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Bhi Bhiman

Bhi Bhiman

Rhythm & Reason

Release Date:
01 June 2015

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Hailed by Robert Christgau for NPR All Things Considered as a “penetrating melodist, accomplished guitarist and striking singer,” Bhiman uses his own upbringing as the son of immigrants as a central theme for the album’s 10 original songs. With production by Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter), Bhiman deploys bold language and sonic sparks – from richly arranged strings and woodwinds to a literal gunshot – on Rhythm & Reason, all anchored by his most powerful instrument, his unmistakeable tenor hailed as “full-bodied and brawny but delicate” by the New York Times.

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Bhiman balances the subversive with the sensitive on Rhythm & Reason, drawing inspiration in equal measure from Richard Pryor and Curtis Mayfield for their keen observations, their biting commentary and their humanity. Opener “Moving to Brussels” sets the tone for the album in the form of an immigrant’s Dear John letter to his former dictator; “Waterboarded in Love” details an interrogation by a jealous love; and “Up In Arms” recounts Black Panther Huey Newton’s fall from prominence

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Thirty Tigers New 2015 Releases – Turbo Fruit

Turbo Fruit
No Control

Release Date:
20 April 2015

Emerging from a cloud of pot smoke as teenagers in 2007, Turbo Fruits have made their name with notoriously wild live shows and frenetic rock songs about girls, drugs and frying their brains. Their 4th and most self-aware album, No Control, still covers familiar themes but with a notably different perspective and remarkably strong songwriting. No Control arrives April 21st, 2015 as a co- release between their own label, Turbo Time, and Melvin Records/Thirty Tigers.
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The McCrary Sisters

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The McCrary Sisters produced by Buddy Miller are fired up on their new album Let’s Go to be released on 9th MARCH
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Dynamic, powerful and thrilling are just a few words to describe The McCrary Sisters live performances. Steeped in tight soulful harmonies, the Sisters will have the audience dancing in the aisles celebrating life with words of hope and love.

The McCrary Sisters (Ann, Deborah, Regina and Alfreda) are the daughters of the late Rev. Samuel McCrary—one of the original members of the legendary gospel quartet The Fairfield Four. The daughters were raised in harmony, singing at home and at their father’s church, but word soon spread of their individual accomplished voices and each began sharing the family vocal legacy as solo artists with a wide range of performers to include Bob Dylan, Elvis, Isaac Hayes and Stevie Wonder.

In 2011, the Sisters officially formed their own group, The McCrary Sisters, and have recorded or performed with the Black Keys, Martina McBride, Eric Church, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Jonny Lang, Robert Randolph, The Winans, Donnie McClurkin, Nashville’s Jonathan Jackson, Mike Ferris and many more. They have been featured on Bobby Jones Gospel and TBN’s Jason Crabb Show.

While working with Bob Dylan, Regina McCrary met Dr. John. In 2012, the Sisters performed with Dr. John and Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys to promote Dr. John’s Grammy award winning CD, Locked Down, which featured them as background vocalists. Most recently the group was included on Dr. John’s 2014 Concord Music release.

Performance highlights include the 2014 and 2013 Americana Music Awards backing Loretta Lynn, Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash, Dr. John and working with celebrity band members Don Was, Ry Cooder and Buddy Miller. The McCrary Sisters were also featured in live musical tributes to Gregg Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dr. John and Mavis Staples. Recent performances include A Salute to the Troops at the White House in Washington D.C., Sandy Beaches Cruise with Delbert Clinton and Friends, and tours in the U.K. and Scotland.

The McCrary Sisters’ new CD Let’s Go is slated for a spring 2015 release and was produced by Buddy Miller and features The Fairfield Four. The McCrary Sisters and The Fairfield Four also shared the stage during the taping of the All-Star PBS Pledge Special, Rock My Soul: A Celebration of the Gospel Quartet filmed at the Nashville Downtown Presbyterian Church. This national PBS special featured special guest artists Lee Ann Womack, Buddy Miller, Amos Lee, Lucinda Williams and Van Hunt.

The new album Let’s Go and the National PBS Pledge Special DVD Rock My Soul will join the existing 2011 CD Our Journey and 2013 CD All The Way (available though McC RECORDS/THIRTY TIGERS)

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Tracklisting:

1. Let’s Go
2. That’s Enough
3. By The Mark
4. I John
5. Dr Watts
6. Fire
7. Use Me Lord
8. Don’t You Let Nobody Turn You ‘Round
9. I Am Free
10. Hold On
11. Driving Your Mama Crazy
12. I’d Rather Have Jesus
13. He Split Te Rock
14. Old Shoes
15. Hold The Wind
16. Walk In The Light

‘ROCK MY SOUL’ PBS NATIONAL PLEDGE DRIVE SPECIAL IN USA  MARCH 2015 TBC

 

  • A celebration of the rich musical legacy of the black gospel quartet featuring The McCrary Sisters and The Fairfield Four in concert with special guests, plus contextual interviews with artists and historians. 

Guest artists:

 

Lucinda Williams

Lee Ann Womack

Van Hunt*

Amos Lee

Buddy Miller

 

Interview segments:

 

Robert Plant

Patty Griffin

Jackson Browne

Peter Guralnick – Author, Music Historian

Dom Flemons – Musician, Music Historian

Michael Gray – Museum Editor, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

John Rumble – Senior Historian, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Ann Powers – Journalist, Music Historian

Dr. Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr. – Professor of History and Dean of the School of Humanities, Fisk University

Dr. Paul T. Kwami – Musical Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers

Buddy Miller

Lucinda Williams

Van Hunt

Amos Lee

Joe Thompson,

Robert Hamlett,

Lee Olsen

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Angaleena Presley

Angaleena Presley Announces UK TOUR and CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL to accompany the release of her new Album
‘American Middle Class’

 

 

If there’s a pedigree for a modern country music star, then Angaleena Presley fits all of the criteria: a coal miner’s daughter; native of Beauty, Kentucky; a direct descendent of the original feuding McCoys; a one-time single mother; a graduate of both the school of hard knocks and college; a former cashier at both Wal-Mart and Winn-Dixie.  Perhaps best of all the member of Platinum-selling Pistol Annies (with Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe) says she “doesn’t know how to not tell the truth.”

That truth shines through on her much-anticipated debut album, American Middle Class, which she co-produced with Jordan Powell.  Yet this is not only the kind of truth that country music has always been known for—American Middle Class takes it a step further by not only being a revealing memoir of Presley’s colorful experiences but also a powerful look at contemporary rural American life.  “I have lived every minute on this record.  My mama ain’t none too happy about me spreading my business around but I have to do it,” Presley says.  “It’s the experience of my life from birth to now.”

Yet the specificity of the album’s twelve gems only makes it more universal.  While zooming in on the details of her own life, Presley exposes themes to which everyone can relate.   The album explores everything from a terrible economy to unexpected pregnancies to drug abuse in tightly written songs that transcend the specific and become tales of our shared experiences.  “I think a good song is one where people listen to a very personal story and think ‘That’s my story, too,’” Presley says.

Mission accomplished.

She has created a hugely resonant album, one that is simultaneously a completely new sound and also deeply entrenched in the beloved traditions of country music, much like Presley herself. Her early life in the mountains was one that taught her to respect her heritage while being invested in the future at the same time.  Her parents made sure she knew Carole King and Janis Joplin as well as Ralph Stanley, Merle Haggard, and Bill Monroe.  She studied the melodies and lyrics of Indigo Girls yet sometimes skipped school so she could drive over to Loretta Lynn’s home at Butcher Holler to seek inspiration.

Presley grew up in a place where the lush mountains and dignity of the people were juxtaposed against a spreading prescription pill problem and rampant unemployment.  She doesn’t hold back from exploring these tough issues while also managing to have a rollicking time on the record, often combining the harder subjects with a more driving and joyous delivery but without ever sacrificing the seriousness of the topics she is cutting wide open.

Before creating this solo effort Presley meticulously crafted her own sound for years.  “I have paid my dues.  I’ve been through the grind, and so many people have told me no.  But I kept on making music.  I had to,” Presley says.  “I never would compromise because I couldn’t.  Part of the waiting has been my own unwillingness to follow the formula but now I feel like the formula has caught up with me.  Maybe I was just ahead of my time.”

 

 

That particular sound is one that is equal parts tradition and originality on a concept album in the tradition of Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger or Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love, albums that tell a succinct and powerful story through a signature sound and masterful songwriting of true artists.  Presley knows how to have a big time but she is also fiercely dedicated to her music, keenly intelligent, and determined to tell her own truth.

Presley wrote five of the twelve songs by herself and her co-writers are a virtual Who’s-Who of the best songwriters in the business:  Mark D. Sanders, Matraca Berg, Lori McKenna, Sarah Siskind, Bob Dipero, Barry Dean, and Luke Laird.  She credits her co-producer, Jordan Powell, with assembling an enviable cast of pickers on a record that allows room for the instrumentalists to shine.  Among them are Keith Gattis (who’s acoustic solo on “Life of the Party” offers a standout moment) and Audley Freed on guitars,mandolins, and dobros; Josh Grange on a beautifully grieving pedal steel; mandolins, and dobros; Fred Elrtingham keeps things rocking along on drums; Grammy winner Glenn Worff and Motown-influenced Aden Bubeck on bass (with both upright and electric bass adding sizzle to “Knocked Up”), David Henry on haunting cello and strings; and John Henry Trinko driving it all home with a wonderful job on organ and piano.  To cap it all off, there are also amazing harmony vocals from standouts such as Patty Loveless, Chris Stapleton, Angie Primm, Keith Gattis, Kelly Archer, Sarah Siskind, Gale Mayes and Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls).

The honesty, the aching delivery, the picking, the beautifully crafted songs—they all come together to form an album that has been awaited with bated breath by fans and the industry alike and does not disappoint, announcing a bonafide country music star who doesn’t just have the pedigree, she also has the magic in her to transform and move her listeners.

“In this fast-paced day and age, it’s so hard for us to slow down and live in the moment,” Presley says. “I just hope my songs can be three minutes for a person to experience something in the moment, to connect, and to feel something, whether that be tragedy or joy or something in between.  I want to tell the truth.”

That truth is something that listeners know when they hear it.  It’s the solid truth of someone like Presley, who doesn’t just talk the talk but has walked the walk and knows what she’s talking about.  That’s real country music and with American Middle ClassAngaleena Presley emerges as the clear, fierce, and joyous voice of her generation.

Tracklisting

1. Ain’t No Man
2. All I Ever Wanted
3. Grocery Store
4. American Middle Class
5. Dry Country Blues
6. Pain Pills
7. Life Of The Party
8. Knocked Up
9. Better Off Red
10. Drunk
11. Blessing And A Curse
12. Surrender

Watch: “PAIN PILLS” Official Music Video

Angaleena will be performing in London at The Borderline

30th July

Orange Yard, Manette Street, London W1D 4JB​

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31st July
CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL 2015

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Info: www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk

Further dates to be announced shortly …

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Garland Jeffreys Tour 2015

Garland Jeffreys returning to UK in Febuary 2015

Garland Jeffreys returns to the UK following his amazing, lively London show in 2014, for a run of dates in February 2015 including West Kensington, London’s venue Nell’s Jazz & Blues.  Jeffrey’s will be performing tunes from his acclaimed most recent album Truth Serum. Whilst in the UK,  he will also be recording the Johnnie Walker show on 22nd February

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truth Serum

Fifty years into his storied career, Garland Jeffreys is enjoying the kind of creative second wind most artists can only hope for the first time around, earning a swarm of critical accolades and experiencing his most prolific stretch in decades. ‘Truth Serum,’ his second album in two years, is a cri de cœur, a stripped-down tone poem from an artist taking his rightful and hard-earned place in the musical pantheon.

More than a dozen years had passed without an American album from Jeffreys when he came roaring back into the spotlight with 2011’s ‘The King of In Between.’ Hailed by NPR as “as good a classic roots rock record as you’re going to hear from anybody,” the record—which featured an appearance by old pal Lou Reed—earned raves from The New Yorker to USA Today and led to a performance on Letterman, as well as appearances onstage with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Levon Helm.

Written on guitar and demoed into a portable cassette player, working with the same core of musicians from ‘The King of In Between’—including Steve Jordan and Larry Campbell, along with Zev Katz, Duke Levine and Brian Mitchell.

The result is an album that stands among Jeffreys’ very finest. The record is a call to arms, a reflection on the world we live in and a vision of the world we owe it to ourselves to pursue. It’s the unvarnished declaration of a man whose time has come.

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The Fairfield Four

The Fairfield Four 

March 9th 2015 brand new album

Still Rockin’ My Soul

The Fairfield Four, the most distinguished proponents of traditional African American a cappella gospel singing working today, were organised in 1921 by Reverend J.R. Carrethers, assistant pastor of the Fairfield Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. The a cappella style of the Fairfield Four was drawn from the Birmingham, Alabama quartet tradition exemplified by recording groups such as the Bessemer Sunset Four, the Birmingham Jubilee Singers, and the Famous Blue Jay Singers with lead vocalist, Silas Steele.

The Fairfield Four were among pioneers of African American gospel groups that used radio to reach broader audiences. Radio led to making records and, beginning in 1946, the Fairfield Four released sides on the Bullet, Dot, Delta, and M-G-M labels, and later on Champion, Old Town, and Nashboro. Extending themselves through the far reach of media, the Fairfield Four would influence both sacred and secular vocalists across the land, among them blues singer B.B. King. “Before I left my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi,” says King, “the Fairfield Four used to come on the radio every morning real early before we went to work. I became a great fan and, in fact, (Sam) McCrary had a lot of influence on my singing over the years, and that’s the truth.”

Today, the Fairfield Four are best known from their appearance on the soundtrack and on screen in the Coen Brothers 2000 film, O Brother Where Art Thou. They are multiple Grammy winners with albums including Standing in the Safety Zone (1992) and I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray (1997) on Warner Brothers, Wreckin’ the House (1998) on Dead Reckoning, The Fairfield Four and Friends Live from Mountain Stage (2000) on Blue Plate, and by their bass singer Isaac Freeman with the Bluebloods, Beautiful Stars (2003) on Lost Highway.

Among their awards and honours, the National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Award, 1989; Tennessee Lifetime Achievement Award, 1994; Nashville Music Award Lifetime Achievement Award, 1995; James Cleveland Stellar Award, 1996; Grammy Award, Best Traditional Gospel Recording, for I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray, 1997; Gospel Music Hall of Fame, inducted, 1999.

The Fairfield Four, continuing to perform a cappella, have been singularly important in revitalising and preserving the oldest style of traditional African American spiritual and gospel singing. Amazingly, the current line-up still maintains its ties to the earliest configuration of the Fairfield Four. Robert Hamlett was a key figure in the Fairfield Four’s reemergence in the 1980s and now, as an emeritus member, has been intimately involved with keeping the group in the tradition. Joe Thompson, a relative of the Fairfield Four’s founding Carrethers brothers and its current bass singer, worked with Reverend Sam McCrary’s Fairfield Four throughout the 1950s. –Jerry Zolten

The current members of the Fairfield Four are Joe Thompson, Levert Allison, Larrice Byrd, Sr., and Bobbye Sherrell. Their  soulful voices combine into a rich harmony that’s as soothing as a cool breeze on a hot summer day.

Tracklisting:

1. Rock My Soul
2. Come On In This House
3. Baptism of Jesus
4. Children Go Where I Send Thee
5. Jesus Gave Me Water
6. I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry
7. My Rock
8. I’ve Got Jesus, That’s Enough
9. Don’t You Let Nobody Turn You Around
10. Highway to Heaven
11. I Love the Lord, He Heard My Cry (Reprise)

Producers: Larrice Byrd, Lee Olsen

 

‘ROCK MY SOUL’ PBS NATIONAL PLEDGE DRIVE SPECIAL

The release of the album will be accompanied by a US PBS TV special airing in the States in March, which celebrates the rich musical legacy of the black gospel quartet featuring The McCrary Sisters and The Fairfield Four in concert with special guests, plus contextual interviews with artists and historians.
Guest artists:

 

Lucinda Williams

Lee Ann Womack

Van Hunt

Amos Lee

Buddy Miller

 

Interview segments:

 

Robert Plant

Patty Griffin

Jackson Browne

Peter Guralnick – Author, Music Historian

 

Dom Flemons – Musician, Music Historian

Michael Gray – Museum Editor, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

John Rumble – Senior Historian, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Ann Powers – Journalist, Music Historian

Dr. Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr. – Professor of History and Dean of the School of Humanities, Fisk University

Dr. Paul T. Kwami – Musical Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers

Buddy Miller

Lucinda Williams

Van Hunt

Amos Lee

Joe Thompson, FF4

Robert Hamlett, FF4

Lee Olsen, Keith Case & Associates

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John Fullbright

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Plays 9 UK Shows This July

New Album ‘Songs’ Out July 21st

 

‘Throughout there is a world weariness and wisdom far beyond John Fullbright’s 25 years. 4*’ MOJO

Hot off the back of his biggest London show to date at the Islington Assembly Hall last night, John Fullbright has announced 9 further unmissable dates for July.

John is already confirmed to play festivals in July including Secret Garden Party on the 26th and to coincide with this, ‘he will be playing Manchester, Sheffield, Birghton and Leicester, places he could not get through on his mini jaunt in June.

John Fullbright plays:

July

Fri 18th                      GATESHEAD, SummerTyne Americana Festival

Sat 19th                    MANCHESTER, Ruby Lounge

Sun 20th                   SHEFFIELD, Greystones

Mon 21st                  BRIGHTON, Green Door

Tues 22nd                 LEICESTER, The Musician

Thu 24th                   GUILDFORD, St. Mary’s Church

Fri 25th                     WINCHESTER, The Railway

Sat 26th                    HUNTINGDON, Secret Garden Party

Sun 27th                   PERTH, Southern Fried Festival

Born in Woody Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma, John Fullbright grew up surrounded by a rich musical heritage. He started playing the piano at 5 and learned to play guitar at the legendary Blue Door eventually supporting Joe Ely and Jimmy Webb.

His stunning debut LP ‘From the Ground Up’ – released in 2013-was a lyrically diverse, genre-spanning collection of memorable songs with staggering depth and promise and more than deserving of its Grammy nomination, up for the Americana award.

The press were unanimous in their praise for the LP with Uncut declaring “…The arrival of a major talent”, The Evening Standard calling John “A new all-American idol” and Sunday Times Culture saying he has “…a remarkable way with words”.

 

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Top Americana duo Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis release ‘Our Year’ ‘A modern take on classic country music.’

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If Austin’s happily egalitarian music scene suddenly switched to a monarchy, Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis might have to learn to perform while balancing heft crowns. The two already reign as one of Americana music’s coolest couples, and their latest release, Our Year, elevates them closer to the lofty territory once occupied by beloved royals, Johnny ‘n’ June and George ‘n’ Tammy.

Working again in Nashville with producer Brad Jones (Cheater’s Game), they delivered their musical thoughts in 10 outstanding tracks, from formidable originals to well-honed covers including a knockout version of the Tom T. Hall-penned “Harper Valley PTA.” Jeannie C. Riley’s 1968 hit sounds like a classic all over again in the hands of this pair — and the chicken-pickin’, mandolin-plucking, shaker-grooving players who back them on this tart tale. 

The desire to capture that live dynamic — their “swampier, grittier side” — drove the creation of Our Year, Willis says. Robison calls their style “a modern take on classic country music, without being retro.”

Watch the stunning performance of Bruce and Kelly’s song ‘Harper’s Valley PTA’ here:

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Tracklisting:

1.Departing Louisiana
2. Motor City Man
3. Carousel
4. Lonely For You
5. A Hanging On
6. Shake Yourself Loose
7. Harper Valley PTA
8. Anywhere But Here
9. I’ll Go To My Grave Loving You
10. This Will Be Our Year

For more information about the Thirty Tigers roster, including Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis, please contact Sara Silver
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