Co-written with U. S. veterans and their families, the eleven deeply personal songs on this album reveal the untold stories, and powerful struggles that these veterans and their spouses deal with abroad and after returning home. The songs featured on Rifles & Rosary Beads were all co-written as...
“Hearts Of Glass” is a powerful collection of songs that dig deep into the place within us where vulnerability meets strength. Produced by Sam Ashworth, “Hearts Of Glass” is sparse and beautifully recorded. The songs, mostly written by Beth alone, include several new compositions, from the haunting...
Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release “Last Man Standing”, Willie Nelson’s new studio album (and 11th for the label) on Friday, April 27 … just in time for Willie’s 85th birthday (April 29). Last Man Standing, comprised entirely of songs newly-penned by Willie...
Long acknowledged as America’s premier folk guitarist, Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born in what was then the tiny rural community of Deep Gap, North Carolina in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains on March 3, 1923. Surrounded by music and musicians, Doc and his siblings grew up listening to...
Jim Lauderdale’s 31st album, Time Flies, is a return to what he does best: classic country infused with striking notes of Americana and soul. As a two-time Grammy winner and multi genre dabbler, Lauderdale is able to carve out space for himself in music worlds both familiar and foreign, and after a...
In the summer of 1979 Jim Lauderdale made a pilgrimage to Nashville from North Carolina with two goals: to work with and befriend Roland White and George Jones, and to make a mark on the respective worlds of bluegrass and country music. While Lauderdale puts it down to luck, it was more likely fate...
Four albums dating from 1972, 1973 and 1974 from the doyen of country music. ‘The Lonesomest Lonesome’ was a No. 2 hit on the US Country Singles chart, and both ‘She's Got To Be A Saint’ and ‘You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me’ were US Country chart No. 1 singles. All the albums...
A remarkable return from a singer-songwriter whose work might well have been lost to dusty record crates and the secret annals of Americana musical history. But with Tompkins Square’s 2017 reissues of Beeley’s two stunning albums, 1971’s GALLIVANTIN’ and 1979’s PASSING DREAM, the Texas-based...
Neo-traditional honky tonker Chuck Mead serves up a Memphis-spiced hardcore country platter with ‘Close To Home’. The 11-track collection recorded at the historic Sam Phillips Recording Studios in Memphis, TN was produced by acclaimed Memphis recording engineer and producer Matt Ross-Sprang (Jason...
Two-time Grammy winning Americana icon Jim Lauderdale returns with From Another World, a ten song collection of empathy, love, forgiveness and humility, an antidote to the anger and divisiveness of today’s world. McCartney-esque melodies, Dylan-esque lyrics, bluegrass, and twangy psychedelia...
Aly Cook – Caught in the Middle takes you on a multi genre journey through country, blues, roots and acoustic. An eclectic collection of works that is all tied together through outstanding musicianship and Cook’s heartfelt delivery of the songs. The album contains 9 original works and 3 selected...
❝…the singer-songwriter and bluesman joins forces with an impressive collective of well-regarded names in the modern roots landscape to produce what may be his most ambitious LP to date.” - PopMatters Jonah Tolchin has wrestled with a wellspring of emotions in his 26 years, and in the process, has...
Mark Kozelek is teams up with singer Petra Haden for a new LP called Joey Always Smiled. Along with Haden, it features contributions from Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, character actor Kevin Corrigan, regular Kozelek collaborator Ben Boye, and more. And following six originals with very Kozelekian...
Hope In High Water’s new album ‘Bonfire & Pine’ is a story of healing. Following on from their 2017 debut ‘Never Settle’ which explored the death of loved ones, trauma and the breakdown of relationships, ‘Bonfire & Pine’ is the light at the end of the tunnel. It tells of the joy and freedom found...
Terry Allen’s 2019 retrospective exhibition, The Exact Moment It Happens in the West: Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ‘til Now, at his longtime gallery L. A. Louver, surveyed the celebrated artist’s over fifty-year career bridging the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual...
The Mastersons are singer-songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore. Longtime members of Steve Earle’s band the Dukes, the musical and marital twosome make inspired albums of their own vivid, deeply humanistic songs. Their fourth album, NO TIME FOR LOVE SONGS, marks...
Simply put, Alabama natives Ira and Charlie Louvin are country music pioneers, Baptist blood brothers known for their trademark close harmony vocal style, mandolin magic, and emotive material ranging from spiritual standards, well-crafted covers to influential originals. The Louvin Brothers’ holy,...
Constantly on tour the eastern have played in every nook and corner of the good isles of New Zealand, and have broken strings and dented floors in parts beyond. From Papanui to Portland, Shirley to Sydney they've seen more than their share of barrooms and street corners, but treat any opportunity...
Hardcore Troubadour straight out of New Zealand preserving the traditions of country/folk story-telling all wrapped up in a punk rock attitude. By day he works as a psychiatric nurse and spends his spare time rescuing and rehabilitating neglected dogs. As a musician he has collaborated both on and...
In 1993, as part of the first-generation Bloodshot roster, Robbie fulks helped us define “Alternative Country.” In 2013, after two decades playing music everywhere from the taverns of southern Illinois to the honky tonks of northern Norway, from Austin City Limits’ soundstage to the historic Grand...
