Aug 7, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
Liner notes for Hanging Tree Guitars released Freeman Vines made his first guitars because he was searching for a sound. Assembly line Fenders and Gibsons were too conventional to give voice to the music he imagined. He has worked with all kinds of materials: the...
Aug 6, 2020 | Xanthe Alexis - Results
Celebrating much-welcomed summer releases from local artists “Acclaimed singer/songwriter Xanthe Alexis released two new singles in anticipation of her upcoming sophomore LP The Offering, which is set for release on Aug. 21.” | Read More at CS...
Aug 4, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Releases, Press Releases
Connect earning glowing reviews NYC jazz trumpet legend Charles Tolliver’s new album ‘Connect’ (Gearbox Records / July 31), recorded in London with Binker Golding and his first album since 2009, has earned exemplary notice from NPR Music, NY Times, and beyond. Here’s...
Aug 4, 2020 | Xanthe Alexis - Results
Beehive Candy Praises “Extraordinary New Album” “Hinting at everything from Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten to Julien Baker and Feist, it’s a deeply compassionate, unflinchingly honesty collection, one that finds Alexis baring her most vulnerable...
Aug 4, 2020 | Xanthe Alexis - Results
Listen: Xanthe Alexis, “The Offering” “These words soothed my heart that is so often straining under the weight of our collective suffering. I hope it does the same for others too.” | Read More at Bluegrass...
Aug 4, 2020 | Boing Boing, Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Man builds guitars using wood from a lynching tree “Vines deeply moving work is the subject of a new photography book, Hanging Tree Guitars, with tintype images by Timothy Duffy and essays by Zoe Van Buren and Lonnie Holley.” | Read More at Boing...
Jul 31, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results, NPR
Podcast Includes Connect Among Featured Albums “NPR Music’s Bobby Carter, WBGO and Jazz Night in America’s Nate Chinen, NPR Music contributor Gavin Godfrey, NPR Music’s Tom Huizenga, Marissa Lorusso and NPR’s Ann Powers all join host...
Jul 31, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results, New York Times
NYT celebrates Tolliver’s “triumphant blues variations” “The trumpeter Charles Tolliver’s compositions tend to balance syncopated elements as if they were structural beams.” | Read More at...
Jul 30, 2020 | Vincent Cross - Results
This is an important Irish-American immigrant story that hasn’t been told “He was James ‘The Rooster’ Corcoran, and his turbulent, action-packed, controversial life, is the subject of a new album by the folk singer Vincent Cross, who himself is a...
Jul 27, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Blowing Down The Walls Of Trump’s Jericho “Tolliver’s long and distinguished career continues to flourish, with a new album, Connect, recorded in London in November 2019, set for release on the Gearbox label at the end of July 2020.” | Read More at...
Jul 24, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Self-Determined, Then and Now: A Focus on Charles Tolliver “Charles Tolliver has lived his share of jazz history. As a fiery young sideman with Jackie McLean and Max Roach in the 1960s, he joined a lineage of exalted post-bop trumpeters, more than holding his...
Jul 24, 2020 | KEXP, Xanthe Alexis - Results
Xanthe Alexis Celebrates the Supernatural Strangeness of the Cosmos in “Moon” “Colorado-based folk musician Xanthe Alexis also understands the powerful pull of the planets and the supernatural undertones of the cosmos.” | Read More at...
Jul 21, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Charles Tolliver, Connect (Gearbox Records) “Charles Tolliver is a legend not just for his fierce trumpet playing, but for his leadership.” | Read More at...
Jul 21, 2020 | Vincent Cross - Results
Vincent Cross preps concept album about Irish-American gang leader “There’s a clear influence of traditional Irish folk music on these songs, and Cross says that he learned a few new instruments to really get that style of music across.” | Read...
Jul 21, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
Companion album to book of the same name (published on Bitter Southerner) on the guitars and artwork of Freeman Vines Music Maker Relief Foundation has confirmed the release of a new compilation album sacred soul and blues Hanging Tree Guitars, out September 25, to...
