Yep Roc Records and UNC Libraries’ Southern Folklife Collection Release Never-Before-Heard Live Album Recorded At Club 47 (Club Passim) February 10, 1963
 
Features Four Previously Unreleased Tracks
Listen/Share: “The Train That Carried My Girl From Town”
 
An Evening with Molly Tuttle Record Release Show Celebration Planned For February 13 at Club Passim
 
(Press Release) Yep Roc Records and the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries announce the release of Doc Watson, Live at Club 47, set for a February 9 release on CD and digital, nearly 55 years to the date of the original recording. The LP release will follow April 27. The album is now available for pre-order.
 
Recorded live February 10, 1963 at Club 47 in Cambridge, MA, today known as Club Passim, this never-before-heard album features four previously unreleased songs from Doc’s early repertoire, in addition to performances of Doc’s favorite songs of the Carter Family, Frank Hutchison, Charlie Poole, and Merle Travis. Doc is accompanied by John Herald and Ralph Rinzler of The Greenbrier Boys on five of the album’s tracks.

New York, NY (Press Release) -- 'Down The Rabbit Hole Live: Zac Brown Band 2018,' Zac Brown Band's eighth headlining North American Concert Tour, kicks off June 8. The 27-date tour, which will see more stadium shows than any of the group's previous tours, begins with two concerts at Boston's iconic Fenway Park and concludes with two stadium performances with the Eagles at San Francisco's AT&T Park and San Diego's Petco Park. Tickets go on sale to the general public January 19. 

"'Down The Rabbit Hole Live' is a reference to the never-ending pursuit of excellence," says Zac Brown. "This summer, we'll bring the fans along that journey with us."

Here's Zac Brown Band's tour announcement video: https://youtu.be/iIivt-9B3IE

Zac Brown Band played to more than a million fans in 2017 and over five million fans in the last five years. Sold-out stadium shows at Denver's Coors Field and Chicago's Wrigley Field anchored last year's tour, which Billboard described as an "epic 2017 show run":  https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8014097/zac-brown-band-hollywood-bowl-live-interview

NEW EP JUST GOT BACK OUT JANUARY 19TH
Have you ever found yourself on the receiving of unsolicited advice from someone of an older generation? That's the story behind Tom Evanchuck's new single "Strange" from his upcoming EP Just Got Back. The harmonica-laden tune finds Evanchuck receiving pearls of wisdom that soon lead him to picturing his own future.
"It was written after seeing an old man sitting at bar who was served a PBR before he could even sit down," says Evanchuck. "He just sat there all quaintly sipping his beer with both hands (covered in Band-Aids, hence the line in the song). This past year was a busy one with many weddings in my family and those two scenarios work together in unison for this track. The lyrics sound like words a person might say if they were cornered by a wise old man at a wedding."
With his new EP Just Got Back, Tom wanted to come from a more relatable, storyteller position and not so much the "jumping on an old train" subject matter that was prevalent in his previous records. He enlisted a group of talented musicians in the Cleveland area and in one day, they cranked out all 8 tracks. No one other than Evanchuck had even heard the songs before that day, creating a very organic, "in the moment" sound.
Pre-order Just Got Back here.

GB Roots - Kirby Green and Dave Barber - came together through their unusual love of bluegrass and Americana -- well, unusual for Western Canadians at least. “There aren’t many opportunities to play bluegrass in Canada, but it was my first love,” says Barber. The two met in Edmonton at Grant MacEwan University, where Green studied bass and Barber studied guitar. While in college, both began establishing themselves in the Alberta music scene, but ultimately wanted to start a project that would allow them to write and perform their original music.
 
Thus, GB Roots was born and soon the duo found their debut, 2012's The Key, nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award and charting on the Roots Music Report in both the United States and Canada. Now, the Vancouver-based duo are prepping the release of their new album, Tumbleweed, on March 2nd. Collectively produced by the band and Mitch Merrett, Tumbleweed finds Green and Barber creating an Americana sound that features their highly-skilled instrumentation, contemplative songwriting, and soulful vocals - all of which can be heard on the album’s first single, “Better Get Your Gun”, which TDC is incredibly proud to premiere today.

A story song about an outlaw, "Better Get Your Gun," features a fiercely dark spoken introduction before barreling into the bluesy track which is led by the twosome's soulful vocals, a propulsive back beat, and crisp guitar riffs. A take no prisoners reflection on a life lived, "Better Get Your Gun" relays a story that is individual, yet universal, drawing on life struggles, uncertainty, and making wrong decisions.

The duo had this to say of the tune,
"Better Get Your Gun” is the story of a broken outlaw in the last moments before his death as the gunslinger stands above the trap door with a noose around his neck.  The outlaw looks back on his life of running and how he has lived with and will die with a gun by his side. "Better Get Your Gun" sets the stage for the rest of the forthcoming album, Tumbleweed, as it explores the life and death of an outlaw on the run and deals with the everyday human struggles of good, evil and addiction."

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Album Pre-Order:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tumbleweed/1329109110 

"Better Get Your Gun" iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1333841628?ls=1&app=itunes

Spotify: 
https://open.spotify.com/track/3bRb3EafBECONes8RaYSKd

Watch the video HERE

Last year, the Portland, OR-based Blitzen Trapper accomplished a unique feat for a rock band who has been releasing albums and touring for the better part of two decades: a staged musical titled Wild & Reckless that ran for 28 performances at Portland Center Stage.
 
The album Wild & Reckless was born from the stage production that the band spent the better part of a year producing and was released as a companion to their 2008 breakthrough album Furr to much critical acclaim in early December. The half musical, half rock-opera dealt with heroin abuse, desperation, true love and western power structures. The story evoked a bygone era of Portland with this sci-fi love story, featuring a rock-and-roll score that paired unreleased songs with favorites from the band’s catalog. 

Since the release of their second album, Vinyl and a Heartache, Norweigan Americana trio Darling West have brought their music all over the world (including Americanafest), appeared on the Top 100 Country charts in the US, and won a Norwegian Grammy. Now, the threesome - Mari Sandvær Kreken (vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar, harmonica, dulcimer), Tor Egil Kreken (vocals, banjo) &
Kjetil Steensnæs (vocals, guitar) - are gearing up for the February release of their new ten-track collection, While I Was Asleep, and today share one of the tracks from the record entitled, "Loneliness."

Led by delicate harmonies and a gentle banjo, "Loneliness" also features the telltale sadness of the pedal steel, which aids Mari's airy vocals in conveying the sentiment of heartbreak, experienced for the first time.

"If this is what loneliness feels like
I've never been lonely before
Those letters you so eloquently turned into words
And you left for me one morning on a note by the door"

Tor Egil Kreken had this to say of the song, “It’s one of those songs that took a very short time to write. Sometimes an idea takes days or weeks to develop, but “Loneliness” was written in an hour or two. It just immediately felt right. With classic Darling West ingredients such as banjo, pedal steel and heartache, and a killer drum groove pushing it along, it leaves you smiling through your tears.”

TDC is proud to premiere "Loneliness" which you can stream above.
 
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(Press Release) Nashville-based country/Americana outfit Whiskey Wolves of the West is set to release its debut album, Country Roots, on March 2, 2018 via Rock Ridge Music. With a sound that is something that can only be earned by a thousand nights in smoky bars and a million miles on bald bus tires, the Whiskey Wolves are disciples at what could be the last supper of country music, and.  A concisely focused, seven-track melting pot of an album—with tunes that are high and lonesome, yearning and dark, twangy and gritty and oh-so-satisfying--Country Roots features the dynamic songwriting and performing tandem of Tim Jones (vocals, guitar) and Leroy Powell (vocals, guitar, bass, pedal steel, clavinet, keys, harmonica), two prime progenitors of the new Nashville sound.
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“I feel like the music Tim and I do could easily be put side by side with any of it—we’re not shooting to sound like anybody other than ourselves,” theorizes Powell, a first-call guitarist/multi-instrumentalist for noted Music City producer Dave Cobb who’s backed heavy-hitters Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton in the studio, as well as both Shooter and Waylon Jennings. Concurs Jones, a top-cat Nashville singer/player in his own right who’s worked side by side in a band with Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) and had Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes) as a producer and tourmate, “I’m proud to say we’re both making the same kind of music now that we did back when we were starting out. It’s the love of a genre that a certain zeitgeist movement may have briefly captured, but we never left it.”