Nov 5, 2019 | Press Releases
Drumming Legend’s Last-Ever Recording From 1986 Today, Gearbox Records and the Rich Estate have announced the forthcoming release of the last-ever recording of American drumming legend, Buddy Rich. Titled Just In Time: The Final Recording, the album will be...
Nov 4, 2019 | Buddy Rich - Results, Jazziz
Hear the Last-Ever Known Recording of Drum Legend Buddy Rich “It’s peak Rich: full of swing, bristling with energy and faster than a speeding bullet.” | Read More at...
Oct 17, 2019 | AV Club, MMRF - Results
Do you like roots music? Then we’re giving away a getaway just for you “We’re giving away a getaway to Durham, NC, to attend a five-day music and arts festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Music Maker Foundation.” | Read More at AV...
Oct 1, 2019 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Duke Performances partners with the MMRF to present Music Maker 25 at The Fruit. Works from significant visual artists such as Lonnie Holley (The Met, MASS MoCA), Sam “the Dot Man” McMillan (SECCA), Freeman Vines, and Music Maker founder Timothy Duffy (NOMA, the...
Sep 18, 2019 | Barnes Brothers - Results, Bible & Tire - Results, Elizabeth King - Results, No Depression
New Label Bible & Tire Serves Up Newly Minted and Vintage Gospel Soul “Elizabeth King missed her blastoff. Forty years ago, she was on the launchpad, fueled up and ready to go, but because of circumstances beyond her control she never achieved...
Sep 10, 2019 | Barnes Brothers - Results, Bible & Tire - Results, Elizabeth King - Results, NPR
‘It’s Soul Music Without The Sex’: Fat Possum Records’ Bruce Watson Goes Gospel “For the label’s new recordings, Watson produced the Sensational Barnes Brothers himself, at Delta-Sonic Sound studios in Memphis.” | Read More...
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...
