Sep 10, 2019 | Barnes Brothers - Releases, Bible & Tire - Releases, Elizabeth King - Releases, Press Releases
Sept 20 Marks First Releases by Sensational Barnes Brothers and Elizabeth King & the Gospel Souls Bruce Watson of Fat Possum Records will launch the new label Bible & Tire Recording Co. to showcase new and archival Memphis gospel releases, the first of which...
Sep 5, 2019 | Kevin Gordon - Releases, Press Releases
Sept 14 with Kevin Gordon, Rebecca Loebe, & More Tennessee Brew Works, an independent craft brewery will host the AMERICANAFEST Blue Corn Music & Nick Loss-Eaton Media Finely Tuned Day Party on Sept. 14 from 11am to 10pm at their taproom, 809 Ewing...
Aug 22, 2019 | American Songwriter, Justin Peter Kinkel Schuster - Results
Hear the Hopeful New Album Take Heart, Take Care “In 2016, Kinkel-Schuster released a solo album called Constant Stranger and, in 2018, teamed up with Centro-matic’s Will Johnson for an arresting art-rock project called Marie/Lepanto.” | Read More at...
Aug 12, 2019 | Ward Hayden - Results, Wide Open Country
Song Premiere: Lively Cover of ‘The Promised Land’ “Ward Hayden and the Outliers put their own spin on American classics on their forthcoming album Can’t Judge a Book.” | Read More at Wide Open...
Aug 6, 2019 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Results, NPR
Ibrahim Is Deeply Rooted Yet Sounds Like No One Else “The latest album from the 84-year-old South African composer and pianist showcases his work as a master composer of melodic mood pieces.” | Read More at...
Jul 31, 2019 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Results, New York Times
A Lifetime of Dreams and Resistance at the Piano “The South African musician formed the Jazz Epistles and got a boost from Duke Ellington. Now 84, he is a Jazz Master and still a vital force onstage.” | Read More at...
Jul 23, 2019 | American Songwriter, Kevin Gordon - Results
Kevin Gordon: Tilt and Shine “It’s another example of why he’s one of America’s finest, most literary and talented musicians.” | Read More at American...
Jul 5, 2019 | MMRF - Results, Washington Post
“Their ancestral cultures have been oppressed and forbidden, and yet they rise up singing” “For at least 30 years, Duffy has been working alongside roots musicians from the American South. “Blue Muse” brings together a collection of tintype portraits...
Jun 24, 2019 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Results, Wall Street Journal
A Jazz Master Continues to Grow “On his first album in five years, the pianist finds yet more surprising pleasures in his signature blend of South African music and American jazz.” | Read More at...
Jun 24, 2019 | Billboard, Crosstown Arts - Results
Wilco’s Pat Sansone Explores Cult Favorite Instrument on ‘Mellotron Variations’ Project “Though Wilco is gearing up for its next album, due out in early fall, Sansone is hoping Mellotron Variations will be an ongoing concern.” | Read...
Jun 18, 2019 | Press Releases
NPR Show Mountain Stage Confirms Appearance with Shawn Colvin NPR Music recently spotlighted Rebecca Loebe’s new song and video “Popular,” a powerful ode to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, in its Station Breaks column. Adam Harris writes, “Chances are...
May 23, 2019 | Crosstown Arts - Results
Crosstown Arts Creates Four Places to Find Live Music “Standing on a rug in the room’s center, twin brothers Christian Underwood on bass and Christopher Underwood on drums, known as The PRVLG, played with Paul Taylor.” | Read More at Daily...
Apr 25, 2019 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Preserving the Roots of the American South The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse, on view April 25, 2019 through July 28, 2019. Using a photography process invented in the United States in the nineteenth-century, Timothy Duffy creates...
Apr 25, 2019 | Crosstown Arts - Results
Crosstown Arts ramping up with new venues, concert series, recording studio and more “Crosstown is poised to take advantage of its setup to become a unique cultural centerpiece, not just in Memphis, but in the United States.” | Read More at Commercial...
Apr 5, 2019 | Dom Flemons - Releases, Press Releases
Dom Flemons Grabs Nominations, Talks Lil Nas X, Solange, & the Black History of Roots + Country Music Dom Flemons’ latest Smithsonian Folkways album ‘Black Cowboys’ uses music to tell the story of the prominent but often-overlooked role African-American pioneers...
