 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 11, 2018) Country music artist and SiriusXM Willie’s Roadhouse and Outlaw Country host, Dallas Wayne will release his latest album, Songs The Jukebox Taught Me: Volume 2, on June 22.
“My latest album represents a continuing journey back to the songs that made me fall in love with classic country music. Together with the previous Songs The Jukebox Taught Me project, this collection of 25 songs is a tribute to the songwriters who crafted them, and the artists who sang them — the heroes and teachers who taught me this music,” Wayne said.
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Americana Music Association® Announces Lineup for Fifth Annual AMERICANAFEST NYC - Aug. 11 & 126/13/2018  NEW YORK (June 12, 2018) - The Americana Music Association® announced today the lineup for its Roots of American Music Weekend, presented in association with Lincoln Center's Out of Doors, one of the country's longest-running, free outdoor summer festivals. For the fifth year, AMERICANAFEST NYC (August 11-12), brings the sounds of roots, country, folk and more to Damrosch Park. Performances include the powerful soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples, prolific producer and vocalist Joe Henry, provocative songwriter and tender-twanged Margo Price, and the country-rock union of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real. See below for details on each concert.
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Mapache has released 'Lonesome LA Cowboy,' a surprise EP consisting of three charismatic covers. Coming just months after the Southern California-based, twenty-something duo were introduced via their acclaimed self-titled debut album, which showcased the incisive lyrical and melodic craftsmanship of their original work, 'Lonesome LA Cowboy' highlights their skills as interpreters, taking songs best known for renditions by The Louvin Brothers, Doc Watson and New Riders of the Purple Sage and making them distinctly their own. The lilting "Katie Dear" spins beauty from tragedy, while the bittersweet "Last Thing On My Mind" bids a fond farewell to a lover. The laid-back title-track, "Lonesome LA Cowboy," captures the days and nights of a West Coast troubadour. "We just didn't see any reason to wait," says Mapache's Sam Blasucci, addressing the decision to drop the collection without any advance promotion. "Our repertoire has grown since our first record, and these songs are just too much fun not to sing."  ASHEVILLE, N.C. — June 12, 2018 — Today, Jam In The Trees releases the full schedule the lineup for the 2018 festival, which will be held on August 24th and 25th. The annual music festival returns with a diverse lineup for the third year to Pisgah Brewing Company in Black Mountain, North Carolina. The roster includes legendary artists The Travelin’ McCourys, Jerry Douglas, Shooter Jennings, Elizabeth Cook, Gangstagrass, and Jim Lauderdale, and ever popular artists The Steel Wheels, The Stray Birds, Fireside Collective, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, The Slocan Ramblers, Jane Kramer, and Andy Buckner.
Following tradition, Jam in the Trees will host music on both an indoor and outdoor stage, and will strategically schedule artists so that there are no overlapping sets. Friday night’s lineup will kick off with songstress Jane Kramer at 8 p.m., followed by bluegrass/hip-hop fusion Gangstagrass, and epically closed out with popular Asheville locals Fireside Collective.  Magnet debuted a track: http://bit.ly/2xQaqN3
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — “I used to write about finding ways out of the darkness,” says John Brodeur, the New York songwriter and musician behind Bird Streets. “Now I’m more interested in exploring and creating a map of that place. In some ways, adopting the Bird Streets name allowed me to write more openly about myself.” In need of a creative rebirth after years on the music-industry margins, Brodeur reached out to his friend, the producer and multi-instrumentalist Jason Falkner, to suggest they record together. The album yielded by this pairing is both fresh and familiar — a dynamic collection of introspective indie-rock and power-pop that draws liberally on the music of decades past without being bluntly nostalgic, with Brodeur’s voice like an old friend you’re meeting for the first time. The eponymously titled Falkner-produced debut will be released worldwide August 10, 2018, by Omnivore Recordings. Over a career that’s spanned nearly 20 years, Brodeur has independently produced and released several solo albums, including 2013’s Little Hopes; fronted rock trios the Suggestions and Maggie Mayday; and worked as a touring and studio musician for scores of acts, including the Morning After Girls, Freedy Johnston, and White Hills. Falkner is a widely respected performer and producer whose studio credits include Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, and Daniel Johnston. He’s a founding member of power-pop legends Jellyfish, and is the one-man band behind a string of critically lauded solo records, including 1996’s Author Unknown; and a longstanding associate ofBeck, currently serving as the lead guitarist in his live band. The name Bird Streets springs from a tony real-estate enclave in the Hollywood Hills, which Brodeur first discovered when the recording sessions were first getting underway — but also references Brodeur’s one-time hometown of Albany, N.Y., which provided the characters and inspiration for some of the album’s 11 songs. Brodeur and Falkner were introduced some years ago by mutual friend and fellow one-man-band type Luther Russell (The Freewheelers, Those Pretty Wrongs). Russell appears on Bird Streets via one of the three battling guitar solos that close the track “Stop to Breathe.” Other guests include Miranda Lee Richards and Maesa Pullman, whose voices form the “choir of angels” that gives wings to “Spaceship.”  Listen/Share: “As I Live and Breathe”
For his latest recording, Eli Paperboy Reed, who “invokes the stylish and muscular R&B of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke with convincing suavity” (New York Times) joined forces with fellow Brooklynites High & Mighty Brass Band for Eli Paperboy Reed Meets High & Mighty Brass Band, an album featuring 11 re-imagined tracks of Reed’s best known songs. Originally released for Record Store Day 2018, the album is now available at all digital service providers and on CD and LP. From the first time that Reed joined High & Mighty on stage it was clear that the combination was special. Reed’s powerful wailing over the top of a 10-piece brass band complete with tuba, two drummers, trombones and trumpets was a sound that had never been heard before. After several high-profile shows together in Brooklyn, NY and Las Vegas, NV, it became abundantly clear that The Paperboy and The Brass Band needed to meet in the recording studio. Over the course of three days in July of 2017, they recorded 11 tracks live on reel-to-reel tape. The selections include radical brass-band re-arrangements of Reed’s soul classics -- “Come and Get It,” “WooHoo,” “Take My Love With You” -- and covers, including Beyonce’s “Love on Top” and a brand-new Reed composition written specifically for the album, “As I Live and Breathe.” From humble musical beginnings growing up outside of Boston, Reed moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi when he was 18, and cut his teeth playing and singing in juke joints all over the Delta. From there he took the well-trod path to Chicago, where he spent a year as minister of music with Southside church of Soul legend Mitty Collier. Soon after returning to Boston in 2008, he released his first full-length studio album, Roll With You. Come and Get It (2010) and Nights Like This (2014) followed, with Reed and his band impressing audiences on five continents. In 2016, he returned to the studio for his Yep Roc debut, My Way Home.
Following press and radio acclaim for his recent singles "Pieces Of A Puzzle" and "Honest Man" and over 1.5 million Spotify streams since February, Daniel Pearson has unveiled another new single for streaming/download. Little Lies explores a disintegrating relationship with a poet’s eye for detail and adds vintage soul and gospel influences to his melodic country songwriting.
“Little Lies is a pretty adult song about how a relationship can change over time” explains the singer-songwriter. “Sometimes life can take its toll on two people together. It’s about what happens when you stop being honest with each other and let that chip away at the love you share. The last few records I’ve released have been more folk and country in style - on this song I was aiming for an old school soul vibe, a kind of lived-in quality that felt modern too”. With a loyal fanbase on streaming and social media and rave press from around the world, Pearson is a 21st-century digital artist steeped in analogue culture. In coverage of his three albums so far, writers for Uncut Magazine, For Folks Sake, PopMatters, Baeble Music & more have been quick to praise timeless songwriting and poetic lyrics that draw on classic rock, pop and Americana influences. His songs have also been aired by influential DJs on BBC Radio 2, BBC 6Music, BBC Scotland, KROQ, Triple J Radio & featured on TV shows around the world. For more info, head to danielpearson.net or find him @daniel_pearson on Twitter and facebook.com/danielpearsonfb.  Daughter of Soft Machine co-founder Kevin Ayers finds her voice on 10 new songs set for release on July 27
PopMatters premiered a track: http://bit.ly/2LsBiEM LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Galen Ayers didn’t set out to pursue a music career. In fact, she attempted to run in the opposite direction, despite studying ethnomusicology along with religion as a double-major undergrad. (She also has a double master’s in religious psychology and Buddhism.) But eventually, she discovered her DNA could not be denied. Ayers, whose late father, Kevin, co-founded the influential British psych-rock band Soft Machine, finally gave in to that most demanding of muses: fate. The happy result is Monument, a beguiling album of folk-inflected dream-pop set for release July 27, 2018 on Bombinate Records. “I’ve tried so many things not to be a musician,“ Ayers admits, “but it just keeps coming back. The reason is because it’s such a complete way of breaching that meaningless gap that occurs when shit happens in life. I love painting, writing and sculpting, but I haven’t found anything as complete as the process of writing a song.”  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tony Joe White’s music is as primal as a lizard’s backbone. It echoes from the magnolia groves and bayous of his Louisiana childhood, and looms into the present every time he unleashes the molasses and tanned-leather combination of his guitar and voice. The legendary songwriter’s new blues-based album, Bad Mouthin’, which arrives September 28, 2018, comes straight from the swamps with its blend of classics and five White originals, including two of the first songs he wrote — just before penning his breakthrough hits “Polk Salad Annie” and “A Rainy Night in Georgia” in 1967.
“When and where I grew up, blues was just about the only music I heard and truly loved,” says White, who’s 75 and, if anything, an even more visceral performer than in his youth. “I’ve always thought of myself as a blues musician, bottom line, because the blues is real, and I like to keep everything I do as real as it gets. So, I thought it was time to make a blues record that sounds the way I always loved the music.”  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 7, 2018 Press Release) -- Nashville’s weekly sold out singer-songwriter round, Song Suffragettes, will host its 4th Anniversary Party on Monday, June 11 at 6:30 P.M. at Analog at Hutton Hotel in Nashville. The party will consist of two performance rounds by some of Nashville’s best female singer-songwriters, and a special panel on the “State of Women in Country Music,” which will feature CMT’s Leslie Fram, Red Light’s Tracy Gershon and MTSU’s Beverly Keel. The panel will be moderated by Rolling Stone/Billboard’s Marissa Moss. Tickets for the event can be purchased here.
”We started Song Suffragettes in 2014 simply to give underserved female singer-songwriters a place to play their music and hone their craft,” says music industry veteran Todd Cassetty. “To watch Song Suffragettes evolve from simply a talent showcase to a proud community of talented women has been highly rewarding. And on June 11, we’re excited to once again celebrate the diversity of female voices that we will continue to support until there’s more gender parity within the Nashville music community.” |
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