Sep 13, 2021 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Releases
NEA Jazz Master & “Master Composer” (NPR Fresh Air) Abdullah Ibrahim Confirms Solo Album “A master of understatement and balance… Levitating.”–New York Times “The master composer… sounds like nobody else.”–NPR Fresh Air “A modern...
Sep 13, 2021 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Results, Jazziz
Abdullah Ibrahim, Solotude (Gearbox) “The piano legend’s solo performance perfectly lends itself to the venue’s renowned acoustics. Solotude is due out November 13 on Gearbox and you can pre-order it here.” | Read More at...
Sep 10, 2021 | Chris Robley - Results
Album Premiere: Filament in the Wilderness or What Comes Next by Chris Robley “Each inhabits a nation where hope and empathy are still warranted, if hard-won.” | Read More at Big...
Sep 10, 2021 | Bluegrass Situation, Chris Robley - Results
Listen: Chris Robley, “Love Is a Four-Letter Word” “I don’t know if there’s much to explain except the obvious: love can be a double-edged sword.” | Read More at...
Sep 7, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Results
Premiere #2: A Field Trip Yields Sacred Soul Treasures From North Carolina “A pair of producers made a field trip to the eastern part of North Carolina just before the country shut down last year, and there, in a small studio in the town of Fountain, they...
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...
