 (Nashville, Tenn. Press Release) August 15, 2016 - The Americana Music Association has unveiled its final round of artists to perform during the 17th annual Americana Music Festival & Conference to be held in Nashville on September 20-25, 2016. The lineup, featuring icons, innovators and up-and-comers, underscores Americana's perennially formative place in the world's musical landscape. (The official Spotify playlist is here: http://bit.ly/AmericanaFest )
With more than 200 artists performing in 14 venues in Music City, the event promises to live up to its critical acclaim as noted by MOJO Magazine who described it as the "roots alternative to the GRAMMYs and South by Southwest." These new performers join previously mentioned acts including John Prine, Wynnona & The Big Noise, John Paul White, Sara Watkins, Amanda Shires, Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, just to name a few.
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 Courtesy: Monarch Publicity Nashville, TN – August 15, 2016 (Press Release) – Still riding the waves of countless great reviews and single streams in over 35 countries, James Dupré is releasing “Stoned to Death” to country radio, impacting today via Grassroots Promotion.
"We are so excited to be working with James Dupré to bring his music to a wider country audience,” Nancy Tunick, Co-Owner of Grassroots Promotion, states. “I have been a fan of James since his early appearance on 'Ellen' and his first project. 'Stoned to Death' has just released but is already resonating with programmers and listeners across the country!" The summer heated up nicely for the new artist who’s been featured on Sirius XM’s The Highway and Spotify. Dupré has been highlighted on Nash Country Daily’s “Who’s New” feature, included as one of Rolling Stone Country’s “artists you need to know,” selected for CMT’s Artist Discovery Program, and many more notable highlights from critics and fans. Watch the video for “Stoned to Death”  Credit: Pamela Littky NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Monday, Aug. 15, 2016 Press Release) – It’s a long way from her hometown of Morton, Wash., but then again Brandy Clark is “far from your average country star” (The Guardian), and with an entire new album,Big Day in a Small Town, to play live, Clark will return to the U.K. next month for a series of acoustic shows.
“We played London and Dublin as part of C2C in 2015 and while we were over there we also got to do a show in Glasgow. I wasn’t sure what to expect since I had not played there before but I was blown away by the response from the fans,” reflects Clark. “I’ve been waiting to go back ever since!"  (Press Release) American Rock'n'Roll band THE WALCOTTS partnered with PureVolume.com to premiere their "Let The Devil Win" video--the title track off the band's debut full-length album, LET THE DEVIL WIN, due Friday, September 16 onLocal Hero Records via KOBALT/AWAL. Click here to watch the video which captures footage of the band on the road touring as direct support for Chris Stapletonin late 2015. The new 12-track album by the Los Angeles band is now available for pre-order (here) on iTunes and will also be released physically in CD and vinyl formats.
THE WALCOTTS--Tom Cusimano (Vocals/Guitar), Laura Marion (Vocals), Jim Olson (Drums) and Devin Shea (Violin)--were spotlighted today by Myspace.com as an "Artist of The Day" while unveiling their video for "So Much For Love," another standout track from LET THE DEVIL WIN. Watch that video here.  August 12, 2016 (Nashville, TN) -- Beginning today, Nashville alternative group Birdtalker offers a pre-order of its debut EP, Just This, exclusively at iTunes. Listeners that pre-order the EP will receive three singles, "Heavy," "Graveclothes," and the newly released title track, "Just This."
 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Live albums, longtime staples of a golden age in rock and roll, are rare nowadays. But the Mavericks have validated the concept once again, launching their new record label with a long, loud landmark project entitled All Night Live Volume 1, set for release October 14, 2016. The Mavericks are considered by many to be one of the greatest live bands of our time, and this masterfully sequenced and mixed collection of curated performances from 2015’s Mono Mundo Tour captures a transcendent musical experience as if from the center of the fifth row at a venue of your dreams.
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Celebrating a decade of continuous critical acclaim and international success, Joan As Police Woman returns, this time working alongside fellow Brooklynite, Benjamin Lazar Davis. They will be releasing their album Let It Be You on Oct 21 via Reveal Records/BFD*/RED Distribution. A deeply soulful artist, Joan As Police Woman (Joan Wasser) has famously worked with Antony (Anohni), Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed and David Sylvian. She recently performed at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Tribute to Lou Reed. Benjamin is a talented multi-instrumentalist who currently performs with Okkervil River, Cuddle Magic and Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Dive). Joan and Ben met each other after separate trips to Africa; Ethiopia for Joan as part of Damon Albarn's Africa Express, and West Africa for Lazar to study traditional music. They initially bonded over Central African Republic Pygmy musical patterns and wrote this album together loosely inspired by this music. The band recently performed at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival.  Credit: Danny Clinch Next Saturday and Sunday night, August 20 & 21, music fans will pack Boston's Fenway Park to see Zac Brown Band play a sold-out two-night stand, extending the band's streak to a record seven consecutive sold-out shows at the historic ballpark. For the first time, fans who are not able to attend the concerts can tune into nugs.tv to watch the shows live. Both nights will be available as Pay-Per-View webcasts at nugs.tv and in the nugs.net app for AppleTV. As an added value for the webcasts, Zac Brown Band will perform a special "no-repeat" weekend with a different set each night, with no song repeated over the course of the two nights. The FullHD 1080p webcasts are now available for pre-purchase in both HD and Standard Definition at nugs.tv on Macs, PCs, iOS and Android devices, and the latest AppleTV via the nugs.net app. Fans can watch the shows live or on demand for 48 hours following the live performances, with full DVR-like functionality.
"It's a thrill to go live from Fenway Park, and we know Zac Brown Band's fans are going to love this. We're excited to bring the nugs.tv webcast experience to a new audience next weekend as well as to fans who aren't able to attend the shows," says nugs.net Founder and CEO Brad Serling. Zac Brown Band broke a record in 2015 as the first band to sell out a three-night run at Fenway Park. They have sold out seven shows at Fenway Park in total. Additional information can be found at http://www.zacbrownband.com/.  BLOOMINGTON, IL -- Chicago Farmer, the moniker Bloomington, Illinois’ Cody Diekhoff performs and writes under, is set to independently release his 7th album, Midwest Side Stories, on September 30, 2016. Midwest Side Stories is about hope, depression, job loss, meth, skateboards, a divided nation, used cars, the late shift, farms, factories, the destruction of our environment, and still being around to sing about it. The new release contains ten tracks all of which were written by Diekhoff (pronounced dee-cough), with the exception of the John Hartford classic “I'm Still Here.”
Folk hero Todd Snider says, "I love Chicago Farmer's singing and playing and songs, but it's the intention behind the whole of his work that moves me to consider him the genuine heir to Arlo Guthrie or Ramblin' Jack Elliott. He knows the shell game that goes on under folk music… which is sacred to me. Chicago Farmer is my brother; if you like me, you'll love him."  New York — More than 10,000 attended this weeknd's acclaimed "AmericanaFest NYC," a partnership with Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Series. Celebrating its third year, Americanafest NYC delivered with a 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Last Waltz featuring: Bob Weir, Dr. John, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams, Howard Johnson, Patty Griffin, Anderson East and Parker Millsap, with Those Pretty Wrongs, Mary Gauthier, The Cactus Blossoms, Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones and Dwight Yoakam rounding out the weekend.
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