Rory Block — A Woman’s Soul Label: Stony Plain Records Release date: July 6, 2018 Five-time Blues Award winner Rory Block, among many other impressive titles, might be called the Queen of the Well-Thought-Out Albums. She has put her vast musical talent to amazing use, creating important albums, full of purpose. So many of her … Continue reading
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David Davis & The Warrior River Boys — ‘Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole’
David Davis & The Warrior River Boys — Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole There’s nothing but good news when it comes to old-time acoustic music these days. Especially with the Rounder Records release of David Davis & The Warrior River Boys’ Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole. The collection of songs pays tribute to … Continue reading
New Music You Must Hear: Elliott Park — ‘Just Be’
Elliott Park — Just Be Has it been too long since you poured over the pages of the Guinness Book of Records in search of a challenge that will sustain you through the summer until the list of who’s in which class is posted on the school’s office windows in late August? Has it been … Continue reading
Buck Owens’ Last Capitol Album Will Finally Be Released, Via Omnivore Recordings, On August 17
Recorded in 1975, the artist’s last intended Capitol set features his final two singles for the label. Omnivore Recordings, in conjunction with the Buck Owens Estate, will release Country Singer’s Prayer, Buck Owens’ final Capitol album from 1975, which has remained unissued until now. Street date for CD and Digital is August 17, 2018. By … Continue reading
Gretchen And The Pickpockets — ‘Falling Rising’
Gretchen And The Pickpockets — Falling Rising If there was ever a cocktail party in a CD, Falling Rising is it. Jazzy in its satisfying complexity, yet poppy in its glistening purity, Gretchen and The Pickpockets‘ Falling Rising is a must-have album for the summer of 2018. If the songs themselves don’t always rise above the predictable, the … Continue reading
Clay Harper — ‘bleak beauty’
Clay Harper — ‘bleak beauty’ Clay Harper is on record as saying, “bleak beauty is basically the soundtrack of a very difficult time for me as I attempt to process and make sense of the illness and death of my partner. Sometimes life comes down to just sadness and coping. That’s now, and that’s this.” In … Continue reading
Newly Published: Becky Brown Shares Truths And Insights in ‘Going Our Way’
In Going Our Way, Becky Perry Brown offers an intimate look at her life up to today. The wife of country music legend Jim Ed Brown, brings the reader along on a journey thorough the heyday of Nashville’s golden age and writes with such observant insights that you’d swear you are really there too. To … Continue reading
