Down at the Crossroads Feature: Elder Jack Ward

Bruce Watson’s Bible & Tire Recording Co. Joins with Music Maker Foundation to Examine Quartet Tradition on New Compilation Sacred Soul of North Carolina, To Be Released October 15

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,...
WBGO Features The Cookers’ Upcoming Album

WBGO Features The Cookers’ Upcoming Album

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...
New Sounds Highlights Julie Fowlis, FAI

New Sounds Highlights Julie Fowlis, FAI

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...
Down at the Crossroads Feature: Elder Jack Ward

Commercial Appeal Spotlights Elder Jack Ward

Memphis gospel artist Elder Jack Ward to release first album in more than 50 years “Memphis gospel revival label Bible & Tire Recording Co. has been on a fairly hot streak since the company was launched in 2019 by roots music impresario Bruce Watson.” ...