Any Bluegrass fans out there? Merlefest has announced its 2010 line-up , featuring classic Bluegrass and "Traditional-plus" music from the likes of Doc Watson, Jerry Douglas, the recently 'Bluegrassified' Elvis Costello, and a number of other heavy-hitters in the broader Bluegrass realm. The Wilkesboro, North Carolina festival will take place April 29 - May 2, 2010, and will celebrate its 23rd year in existence. From the press release: MERLEFEST 2010 ANNOUNCES TALENT LINE UP TICKETS ON SALE NOVEMBER 10 WILKESBORO, N.C.- MerleFest 2010, presented [...]
Counting Crows at The Wellmont Theatre (10/28/08) Photo : Jon Klemm Sometimes those Facebook ads really work! Wednesday, September 23 at 7 pm Join us for an evening under the stars in Central Park's East Meadow as THIRTEEN celebrates the release of The National Parks in appropriate fashion. Filmmaker Ken Burns will be on hand to address the crowd, followed by sneak previews and special musical performances from Eric Benet, Peter Coyote, Gavin DeGraw, Jose Feliciano, [...]
Time to take one final look at the nominees for this year's Americana Music Awards. We've tackled Best New & Emerging Artist, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year (as I type this, it looks like Alejandro Escovedo is your pick for best album)... now it's time to take a look at everything else. We'll start with the nominees for Instrumentalist of the Year... Sam Bush, Buddy Miller, Gurf Morlix, and Jerry Douglas. We've already discussed Buddy a couple of times due to his nominations for Album and Song of the Year, and I'll [...]
Those guys up there (Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas and Edgar Meyer) are joined on this date from Hickory, NC by one of the guys down there (Sam Bush). The tape's a bit muddy, but it really doesn't matter. Live and direct from the archives of an uncle...cop it well. Disc One | Disc Two
If you're ever in need of a good gift idea, this random assortment of music for this week's Friday Mix Tape comes from my little brother's Christmas gift this past year. He plopped his entire music catalog onto an 80 gig harddrive and presto, the best gift ever. So, today's mixtape is just a smattering of different stuff I found in perusing the halls of the new library. We kick off with the cathartic finale of Roger Water's live performance of the Wall, Outside the Wall , [...]
Big news in the folkworld yesterday as Bob Dylan received a Special Citation from the Pulitzer Prize folks for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." In response, For the Sake of the Song turns up a set of stellar live Dylan rarities, and claims Dylan's recognition as a big win for rock and roll, but we know better -- that description has folk written all over it, doesn't it? Kudos, Bob. This would be the perfect moment [...]
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Gaggie x Bo Deal – Loose Lips [Prod. by Young Chop]
