The Daphne Records release from Will Kimbrough, Wings, is a solid expression of acoustic Americana from a smart storyteller and gifted artist.
Kimbrough has a scholar’s eye for detail and delivers fluid and clever tunes across the selection of 10 songs.
Shrugging off the rain and ominous storm clouds and relishing the few breaks of sunlight, the crowd at Old Settler’s Music Festival showed up with ponchos, rain boots and trash bags to enjoy four days of music, food and fun.
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Ruthie Foster and her band bring together a variety of musical elements to create a special mix of folk, blues and soul.
Earlier this week Ruthie was able to take our phone call from her hotel room in New York to answer some questions about her live show, song titles and what’s on her iPod.
15-year-old Ruby Jane picked up the violin 13 years ago and won her first fiddle competition at age 8. Now she’s in Austin playing with the likes of Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett.
Her latest record, Live at Roadhouse Rags, and her busy touring schedule keep the high schooler plenty busy but she was able to take a few minutes to talk with us about balancing being a teenager and musician, her FAO Schwarz violin and which band she’d like to play with next. More…
From the opening notes of the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ latest record, Genuine Negro Jig, it’s hard to keep one’s toes from tapping to the beat of the percussion bones and fiddle. By the second song you’re looking for a dirt floor and a dancin’ partner.
The three-piece band (Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson, Dom Flemons) is partially an homage to the old-time pickers like their mentor Joe Thompson but they’re certainly not tied to a particular genre or period.
It seems that a collaboration between three of Kentucky’s finest musicians would have to be a bluegrass record. Not true, as Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore’s Dear Companion proves.
While there is some twang involved in the set of eleven tunes, production by Jim James (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk) adds a rock edge to their Appalachian heritage.
In just under two weeks (April 15-18), Old Settler’s Music Festival will help kick off the festival season at the Salt Lick BBQ Pavilion in Driftwood, Texas (just south of Austin) with four stages and four days of Americana music.
Put on your rock and roll shoes for the Kentucky Headhunters’ adrenaline laced, treadmills paced, and blues-based new release from the Mercury Records vaults, Authorized Bootleg, Live at The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio, May 13, 1990. This fine CD has 16 songs, which marks a 20-year band career life, makes an hour pass away too quickly.
