 SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — (Press Release) The 28th annual Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival will once again enliven Memorial Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 27 and 28, at Rancho Santa Susanna Community Park, 5005 Los Angeles Ave., in Simi Valley. The event features a full stage for each of its musical genres. The spirited music will go non-stop each day from 12 noon until 7:30 p.m. (or 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.).
Single Day tickets are $25 for adults (13 and over); $45 for a 2-day pass; children 12 and younger are free. New this year will be a limited number of SuperTicket passes. For $124 for a single day or $199 for both days, SuperTickets holders get a reserved seat, in the shade, directly in the front of the blues stage as well as private bar access (and two complimentary drinks) and other exclusive “backstage experiences.” Tickets are available on the festival’s website: http://www.simicajun.org/. (Note: the only tickets available at the gate are single-day, $30) Headlining the blues stage this year will be the pioneering blues-rock band the Yardbirds, the Robby Krieger Band (celebrating 50 years of the Doors' music), Mitch Ryder, Lazy Lester and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; as well as L.A.-based roots-rockers the 44’s, soulful SoCal songstress Alex Nester and festival returnees Kelly’s Lot. Another festival favorite, Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, returns for the fourth straight year and will be performing at both stages.
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 Celebrated tunesmith plans tour stops in several major market venues including Alexandria (The Birchmere), Philadelphia (World Cafe Live), NYC (City Winery)
AUSTIN, Texas — James McMurtry’s forthcoming solo East Coast Stateside Solo Tour launches at the Millennium Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. and routes throughout the region before concluding at Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Mass. on April 6. Major markets on this run include shows at legendary listening rooms the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia; World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New York City’s City Winery. “Nothing makes you miss Waffle House like a couple of weeks in Europe,” says McMurtry, who has been touring abroad recently. “The term ‘Continental Breakfast’ is an oxymoron. And I haven't heard Spanish in nearly a month. I sure miss the States.” The famously political songwriter has been keeping a close eye on the troubled Trump administration from across the pond while touring overseas. “A few years back, I put out a song called ‘Cheney’s Toy,’” McMurtry explains. “It was often misinterpreted due to a reference to an unknown soldier. People thought I was calling the soldier ‘Cheney’s Toy’ when I actually was referring to then-President George W. Bush. It seemed to me that Cheney was the puppeteer in that administration, while Bush was the puppet, the toy. At several shows during my current tour of the U.K .and Europe, people have called out for me to sing ‘Bannon's Toy.’”  Courtesy: Conqueroo Watch the video HERE
BROWN COUNTY, Ind. (Press Release)— Rev. Peyton, known for his viral shotgun guitar video and virtuosic slide guitar, is back! This time Rev literally sets his best friend on fire, and all hell breaks loose behind Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band as they perform “We Deserve a Happy Ending” on their own front porch in the new video from the upcoming March 10, 2017 album release Front Porch Sessions. "We researched these dangerous Hollywood-style stunts and my best friend, Jim Connor, volunteered to let me set him on fire inside my house,” says Rev. Peyton. All of these people, animals, and machinery were all packed inside of Rev. and Breezy’s tiny cabin in the Brown County Hills. “These folks are just our friends and family,” Rev. Peyton says. “We are lucky to be surrounded by hillbillies, performers, artists, daredevils, and adventurers.” With almost no budget, this video is one continuous camera shot and was captured by Rev’s good pal and photographer Tyler Zoller in one take. It’s all DIY, but all the proper precautions were taken. Rev. urges people not to try this at home, especially if you live in a wood house. Washboard Breezy, Rev. Peyton’s wife and band member, says, “The song is stripped down, Maxwell Senteney plays a suitcase just like on the record, but it sounds huge.” “It’s all about the vocals,” Rev. Peyton adds. “Max and Breezy make the song for me.” From livestock to Harley motorcycles, from live shootouts to a man fully engulfed in flames, this video has it all! Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band is: Rev. Peyton - guitar, vocals Washboard Breezy Peyton - washboard, tambourine, snaps, claps and vocals Maxwell Senteney - percussion, suitcases, buckets and vocals Produced and directed by Rev. Peyton Videography and editing: Tyler Zoller Production Manager: Jayme Hood  (Nashville, Tennessee...) - February, 2017 (Press Release) - The 25th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival Presented by Regions Bank will encompass a record 100 shows over five nights at 10 of Nashville's hottest music venues. Organizers have announced the popular Fast Access Passes will go on sale at 10:00am CST, Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at TinPanSouth.com.
The Festival is set to run March 28-April 1, and the Fast Access Passes allow patrons to bypass the cover charge at the door and allow advance entrance (space permitting.) Quantities are limited, and last year's passes sold out in record time.  Courtesy: Conqueroo Celebrating the release of both his new album Fierce Mercy (out March 3rd on Compass Records) and his documentary film, Waiting for My Real Life, singer-songwriter Colin Hay will be in NYC on March 18th. Full details below.
When : Saturday, March 18 th Where: NY Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall 2 W. 64th St. Showtime: 8 p.m. Tickets: $45-$65 http://www.nysec.org/colin-hay  HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM STONED ON THE ONE FEATURES GUESTS SPOTS FROM LEGENDARY BELLAMY BROTHERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LARRY GATLIN AND JAMES OTTO
(Press Release) American singer/songwriter and Alabama native Andrew Pope will follow his highly acclaimed 2016 single, Stormchaser, with a new full-length album, Stoned on the One, on May 5 via Alacob Music. Recorded primarily at the legendary Sound Kitchen in Franklin, TN and produced by Pope, Stoned on the One was written as a concept album following a man that is dealing with a breakup and searching for closure. Pope's songwriting depth is showcased on each of the 13 tracks. “Most of these songs came about during difficult times of my life,” Pope shares. “Sometimes when you are dealing with sh*t and searching for answers, a song is born. That’s how this record was molded and it ain't no love song record." Phase shifters and steel guitars echo throughout the album while Mickey Raphael offers a distant harmonica that occasionally passes by and swirls around Pope’s hypnotizing vocals on the heartbreaking “Even Ramblers Get The Blues” and woeful “Runnin’ After Rainbows.” Yet the honky tonk singer displays his unapologetic attitude on the rowdy opener “Stoned on the One.”  LIVE OAK, FL -- Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is happy to announce the final lineup for the Suwannee Spring Reunion on March 23 – 25, 2017, at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. Joining some of the stellar acts already announced are Sara Watkins, Hot Buttered Rum, Tornado Rider, Roy Book Binder, Josh Daniel/Mark Schimick Project, Nikki Talley, Ralph Roddenbery & The B-Sides, Grass Is Dead, Lon and Lis Williamson, The Adventures of Annabelle Lyn, Bobby Miller and the Virginia Daredevils, Whetherman, Flea Market Hustlers, The Applebutter Express, Habanero Honeys, Old Dawgs New Trixx, and Artist at Large: Mickey Abraham.
Artists that have already been announced include Donna the Buffalo, Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester, Peter Rowan Band, Jim Lauderdale, Jeff Mosier with Pickled Holler, Verlon Thompson, and Joe Craven. Along with two stages of music, Suwannee Spring Reunion will have hands on and performance workshops featuring festival artists. All the kids can get really excited too because Tania & the Magic Moon Traveling Circus and Suwannee Spirit Kids Music Camp will be providing a weekend to remember.  Photo Credit: Becky Fluke Album Features Songs Co-Written With Chris Stapleton,
Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, Wanda Jackson and Guy Clark (Press Release) Angaleena Presley follows her critically acclaimed 2015 debut, American Middle Class, with the 12-track Wrangled, April 21 on Mining Light/Thirty Tigers. Angaleena’s “ambitious and riveting” songwriting (Wall Street Journal) punches through each of the co-written tracks. Once again she took a lead chair at the studio’s board, co-producing with Oran Thornton (Eric Church, David Nail) and recording close to home at famed “Ronnie’s Place” in Nashville. "Wrangled is an explicitly forthright journey through my experience in the business of Country Music. I tried to tackle uncomfortable realities like the discrimination against female artists at the height of Bro-Country, the high school mentality of Music Row and the pain that's just beneath the surface of the road to stardom,” says Angaleena. “Covered in elbow grease and sacrifice, I set out to shed the skin of my ‘dream’ Nashville by painting a musical picture of loss, surrender, resurrection, redemption, and connection with real people who make and support honest music."  ASHEVILLE, NC -- (Press Release) Danny Barnes is already known as an iconic American musician, a banjo playing innovator who’s earned high praise from everybody from Bill Frisell and Dave Matthews to Steve Martin, who presented Danny with the Prize for Excellence in Banjo in 2015. From the days with his groundbreaking Austin band, the Bad Livers, to his two decade solo career experimenting with electronic music, jazz, old time string band music and more, he’s a genre bending, rule breaking original who prefers to color outside the lines.
Now, with Stove Up, out March 3, 2017, he’s showing us that it was always a choice, that he’s always had the chops to play straight ahead bluegrass banjo with the best of them. With a top-flight band backing him up, Danny turns in an amazing set of tunes that demonstrate his respect for tradition and his commitment to his own musical voice. “Happily, with Stove Up, our five-string hero steps out of the lab and into the sunlight where his pre-war Gibson can really shine,” says Tim O'Brien. “Producer and guitarist Nick Forster wisely loosens the reins and lets his pack of thoroughbreds set a fast pace around the bluegrass track. Mandolinist Chris Henry, with his bone-dry tone and expanded traditional approach, is a particularly inspired foil to Barnes. Along with Forster, much decorated fiddler Jason Carter, and everyone’s favorite bassist, Mike Bub, they cut through some beautiful territory, including two Don Stover’s compositions—”Black Diamond” and “Rockwood Deer Chase.” Three vocal tracks peek through the instrumentals and give new listeners a look into the quirky mind of Barnes… These are live and lively performances where you can almost hear the musicians smile.”  From Joe Goodkin--"It may be self-evident from the title, but Record of Loss is essentially a set of elegies: remembrances of people no longer with me and us. It is full of the sorrow of loss, but also the hope that comes from confronting loss. It is the most vulnerable music I've ever put out into the world and though a challenging, disconcerting, and even disturbing listen, I'm incredibly proud of it. Record of Loss' predecessor, Record of Life, starts with the song Dog and Cat, which has lyrics that serve as a self-imposed challenge: "I'm going to pour everything into this record of my life/every pain and every fear and every loss/and all the things that I held back and all the things that I left out/and maybe that will finally finally quell the doubt."
Record of Loss is the full realization of this challenge. What follows (and will be released this summer) is Record of Love: the fruits of getting through the darkness of Record of Loss. I owe an incredible debt to the people who gave me permission to tell their stories of loss as part of mine. It was an honor to be trusted with these stories and I hope I did them some justice. The people about whom I sing are among the strongest that I know and are an inspiration to me. The act of writing and singing someone's story is humbling to say the least. |
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