@ Facebook // Bandcamp // Andalucia , Spain's coolest export Guadalupe Plata have released a nasty new ep (via Bandcamp) of covers with legendary Austin,TX Harmonica/Howler Walter Daniels . Daniels has worked with Scott H Biram, Chili Cold Blood, Black Joe Lewis, the Oblivians + Monsieur Jeffrey [...]
For more info---> Pas Un Autre Mirel Wagner - No Death from Aki Roukala on Vimeo .
@ Kicks Books // Facebook My pal April Fecca, auteur of the blog Now This Sound Is Brave , and I had a little tete a tete about the slim new volume of Nick Tosches stories released by Kicks Books. It was originally posted on her blog: When I first read Nick Tosches, I had no idea [...]
Photos from Shane Speal's Cigar Box Guitar Museum are now online. Take a look and make plans to visit the museum in person! Find more photos like this on Cigar Box Nation
@ Facebook // MySpace // CDbaby // Amazon MP3 This is the album I've been waiting for from Mississippi Gabe Carter. It's an intimate affair and that's one of the things I appreciate most about his sound. One of the things that really made him a stand-out at The Deep Blues Festival in Cleveland last summer was that same sense of intimacy. When Gabe sat down to play, the whole vibe of the room changed. People hushed their conversations, those who had [...]
In what has to be among the most exciting and important music news of the year, The Alan Lomax Archives has announced via The New York Times that, " some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads ." [...]
thx to Dangerous Minds blog!
My pal April at NOW THiS SOUND iS BRAVE is celebrating the second anniversary of her blog by giving away this supa-cool Black Keys zombie poster. To enter the running for the baby, " you'll have to tell us about an important music moment in your life. Be it funny or touching or something that will make us all want to slash our wrists, whether it involves playing music, listening to music or meeting a music hero, as long [...]
Do I really need to write anything about Kenny Brown? Really? Haven't we got to the point yet where his albums are issued at birth to each newborn child? If not this world is in a damn sad state. Y'all know Mr. Brown learned to play mostly at the feet of Mr. Joe Callicott , and as a young man became R.L. Burnside's [...]
Joe Sacco , artist of the award-winning graphic novel Palestine was sent on tour with R.L. Burnside by Details Magazine in 2000. The work below was published in the magazine and included in the Fat Possum Records book Darker Blues .
@ Online // Facebook Starting out humbly by broadcasting from a Chicago car dealership in 1963 and for the next twenty-one years of Sunday mornings, Sid Ordower presented the Emmy award winning Jubilee Showcase , a powerful half-hour of the finest Gospel music America had to offer. Many artists now considered legendary performers from Gospel music's golden age got their start on Ordower's show or made their first televised appearance [...]
@ Facebook // G+ // OnLine Mr. Mueller hails from Aachen, Germany. He was tapped by Chris Johnson to do the artwork for the 2008 and 2009 Deep Blues Festival s. Mr. Mueller is responsible for the striking album art for Willem Maker 's newest album and his work has graced the covers of albums by Chip Hanna , Peter Murphy , and others. [...]
The Soul of John Black has a new Christmas ep out now. You can download it from his label Yellow Dog Records for a measly four bucks. Get it HERE . <a href=" http://thesoulofjohnblack.band camp.com/album/the-soul-of-chr istmas">The Soul of Christmas by The Soul of John Black</a> Here's JB with the great Nikka Costa :
The Sensational Friendly Brothers of Tallulah, Louisiana, perform "Heaven Is My Goal" at the St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Canton, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long, August 11, 1978. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit http://culturalequity.org .
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