Hillgrass Bluebilly's tribure to Hank Williams and Leadbelly: "Hiram & Huddie"
*image courtesy of Hillgrass Bluebilly Records
Throughout the times and all the way up to the present the enduring repertoires of early country and blues artists have lived on. In many cases the songs are even more popular today than they were during the lifetimes of those long gone musicians
One-Man Band Series, #11: Honkeyfinger
photo by: Andy Hall (originally appeared in Blues in London)
When it comes to today's one-man bands you won't find anyone else out there quite like London's Honkeyfinger, who has made it his business to further bend and twist the already curved-line formula of
Mike Marshall, Alex Hargreaves, Paul Kowert - Mike Marshall's Big Trio (2009)
by Pico
As an acclaimed maestro on a variety of stringed instruments (violin, mandolin, guitar) Mike Marshall can call upon just about anyone in the field of progressive bluegrass to accompany him on an album. For his fresh-out-of-the-oven album Mike Marshall's Big Trio, he sticks with acoustic guitar
Review: Jefferson Airplane - Live at the Fillmore and Matrix (Collectors' Choice, 2010)
Collectors’ Choice rounds up tapes from five separate Jefferson Airplane live dates. They’re available together in a 6-CD four-pack, or as four separate single- or double-disc sets. The first two concerts document the departure of the band’s original female singer, Signe Anderson, and the arrival of their second,
FORMER EASTMOUNTAINSOUTH SINGER-SONGWRITER KAT MASLICH-BODE REALIZES SOLO DEBUT WITH 'THE ROAD OF 6'
NASHVILLE, TENN - It's been a Road of 6 for Kat Maslich-Bode, as in six years, the time it's taken to complete her solo debut since parting in 2004 with Peter Bradley Adams, as the duo eastmountainsouth. The album, due January 18 via Mishara Music, is
Levon Helm - Electric Dirt (2009)
by Nick DeRiso
Nothing drove old Levon Helm down.
Not the messy dissolution of his group, The Band; the perhaps inevitable subsequent financial ruin; a terrifying bout with throat cancer; a pair of shatteringly tragic deaths within his inner circle; or a yawning quarter century span between solo records that