Sep 21, 2020 | Bible & Tire - Results
The Lost Worlds of JCR Records: Bible & Tire Rescues ’70s Gospel Gems “It’s fitting, given that September is Gospel Music Heritage Month, that today marks the release of another stellar album from Bible & Tire Recording Co.” | Read More at...
Sep 17, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, No Depression
The Reading Room: Art, Music, and History Merge in Hanging Tree Guitars “North Carolinian Freeman Vines is one such luthier, though until now his story has been little known outside of his small patch of ground in eastern North Carolina.” | Read More at...
Sep 16, 2020 | Xanthe Alexis - Results
Watch Xanthe Alexis’s full performance from the BTR live studio “On today’s episode of BTR Live Studio at Home, Colorado based folk artist Xanthe Alexis plays some of her latest tunes of her new album The Offering.” | Read More at Xanthe...
Sep 16, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results
Album review for Charles Tolliver’s Connect “One of the great trumpeters to emerge during the 1960s and ‘70s, Charles Tolliver always had a fat and accessible tone, the ability to shift gracefully between hard bop and freer sounds, and an exciting solo...
Sep 16, 2020 | Bible & Tire - Results
Weekly music roundup highlights The Last Shall Be First, Vol 1 “The Calvary Nightingales are just one of many bands, who’ll be part of an upcoming compilation of obscure but occasionally awesome gospel soul recordings from Memphis in the 1970s.” ...
Sep 14, 2020 | Chiminyo - Results, Jazziz
Chiminyo featured in New Music Monday “Its latest single, “Breathin’” finds him unleashing expressive beats on his tech-heavy drum kit and showcasing a unique, transcendental sound.” | Read More at...
Sep 14, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, NPR
The Wood’s ‘Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly–Just Strange’ “A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines.” | Read More at...
Sep 14, 2020 | Bible & Tire - Results
From The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Record Story, Volume 1 “The collection features seventeen tracks recorded in Memphis during the 1970s along with complete liner notes by music historian/musician Michael Hurtt.” | Read More at...
Sep 11, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Premier Guitar
How a North Carolina luthier’s instruments unearthed a buried story of the American South “Luthier and musician Freeman Vines was 8 or 9 years old when his neighbor, an older white man named Oscar Hopper, introduced him to the guitar.” | Read More...
Sep 11, 2020 | Chiminyo - Results
Percussionist Chiminyo makes his debut with the half-instrumental I Am Panda “Paul K.‘s piano-driven electronics form the basis of Anandamide, which addresses themes of fragility, spirituality and post-pandemic existence (Basilica Music, November 20).” ...
Sep 10, 2020 | American Songwriter, Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Hanging Tree Guitars Delivers Important Insights About America’s Racial Divide “At a time when America is struggling mightily to address past and present racial injustices, his story couldn’t be more relevant.” | Read More at American...
Sep 10, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Releases, Press Releases
Accompanying music album Hanging Tree Guitars to be released September 25 Rolling Stone hailed new book Hanging Tree Guitars, out last week by Freeman Vines with Zoe Buren and Timothy Duffy on Bitter Southerner and Music Maker Relief Foundation, as “haunting” as...
Sep 2, 2020 | Xanthe Alexis - Results
Xanthe Alexis’s second release taps rich vein “Alexis likes to emphasize the spiritual transition from one song to the next, but what is equally apparent is the whimsy and novelty in production.” | Read More at...
Sep 1, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
The remarkable life & work of guitar maker Freeman Vines “For nearly half a century, the North Carolina native has created instruments out of found wood—including some from a notorious hanging tree.” | Read More at Smithsonian...
Aug 26, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Rolling Stone
Hanging Tree Guitars: See Artist Freeman Vines’ Haunting Creations “Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for...
