Sep 3, 2021 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Official Showcase Applications Opened September 1 “There were countless examples of folk as a valued element in the contemporary musical landscape… To wander the poster-festooned hallways was to be greeted by traditional folk in all its iterations, experience its...
Sep 1, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Tony Burke tells the story behind two new gospel albums “JCR Records, a subsidiary of the D-Vine Spirituals label, was a custom pressings label, founded by JuanD. Shipp which had its first release around 1972.” | Read More...
Sep 1, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Elder Jack Ward’s Original, Time-Tested Take on Sacred Soul “Elder Jack Ward, age 83, may be the greatest gospel singer you’ve never heard of.” | Read More at Memphis...
Sep 1, 2021 | Folk Alliance - Results
Listen To Cross-Atlantic Songwriters Find Connection And Escape During Quarantine “The world shut down in 2020, and Tianna Esperanza craved excitement.” | Read More at...
Aug 25, 2021 | Howard Grimes - Results
Apple Music playlist highlights soul & funk Listen at Apple...
Aug 19, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
From Sharecropping to Soulful Singing: Jack Ward’s Remarkable Story “Jack Ward was a successful Stax recording artist, but, remarkably, has never made an album–until now.” | Read More at Down at the...
Aug 19, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results, Bluegrass Situation
Watch: Elder Jack Ward, “The Way Is Already Made” “‘I can just about sing anything anyone else sings…” | Read More at...
Aug 18, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
“Someone Who Is Greater” by Elder Jack Ward off New Album, Already Made “Ward grew up in Itta Bena, MS, in the Delta, home to B.B. King, picking and chopping cotton and driving a mile.” | Read More at Psychedelic...
Aug 17, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Accompanying Documentary Film Out Oct. 5 Via Folkstreams When Tim Duffy of the Music Maker Foundation took Memphis’ Bruce Watson (Fat Possum Records, Big Legal Mess, and the new Bible & Tire Recording Co.) to rural eastern North Carolina to hear sacred soul music,...
Aug 17, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
“Sacred Soul” from North Carolina “Johnny Ray Daniels speaks softly, but his voice shakes North Carolina’s coastal plain when he and the other members of Little Willie and the Fantastic Spiritualaires start to sing the gospel music they’ve passed...
Aug 17, 2021 | The Cookers - Results
Take Five: The Cookers Regroup, and Andrew Cyrille Brings the News “The all-star group — with Eddie Henderson and David Weiss on trumpets, Billy Harper and Donald Harrison on saxophones, George Cables on piano, Cecil McBee on bass and Billy Hart on drums — has...
Aug 11, 2021 | Howard Grimes - Results
Grammy Museums Spotlight Series with Howard Grimes Watch more at Grammy...
Aug 9, 2021 | Folk Alliance - Results
Premiere: Julie Fowlis and Hawktail Present A Transatlantic Celtic Collaboration “The resulting song builds to something that is earthy and danceable while never losing the mysterious feeling that Fowlis creates all on her own at the very start.” | Read...
Aug 5, 2021 | Chris Robley - Results
Alternative music blog reviews latest from Chris Robley “Chris Robley’s There’s a Bird finds a really nice balance between excessive quirkiness and Springsteen workingman’s poetry. ” | Read More at...
Jul 29, 2021 | Howard Grimes - Results, No Depression
Drummer Howard Grimes Weaves Memphis Through His Memoir “The book takes us through episodes from Grimes’ years at Stax Records and Hi Records in Memphis, growing up in Memphis and how the music scene has changed since then, and memories of the many musicians for...
