Jan 9, 2023 | Folk Alliance - Results, No Depression
International Folk Music Awards Nominees and Honorees Announced “Folk music-fomenting nonprofit Folk Alliance International has announced the nominees for this year’s International Folk Music Awards.” | Read More at No...
Jan 9, 2023 | Bluegrass Situation, Folk Alliance - Results
International Folk Music Awards Reveal Nominees, Lifetime Achievement Winners “Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music and the producers of the International Folk Music Awards, have announced the recipients of numerous...
Jan 9, 2023 | Matt Charette - Results
Song Premiere: Matt Charette “Wrecking Ball” “This is a country rock song with a bouncy rhythm that instantly grabs your attention and keeps it — like wrecking ball would.” | Read More at Americana...
Jan 6, 2023 | Matt Charette - Results
Studio 52 Featured Band Of The Week: Matt Charette And The Truer Sound “Led by Boston-based songwriter Matt Charette, this band has a warm and powerful sound with well-written tunes that have the perfect accompaniment to make them sound great.” | Read...
Jan 5, 2023 | MMRF - Results
Atlanta blues musician Shelton Powe carries on tradition playing guitar, harmonica, mouth harp and “rhythm bones” “Powe shines on his acoustic guitar, underscoring his storytelling with the blues’ distinctive hammer technique.” | Read More at...
Jan 5, 2023 | Hermon Hitson - Results, MMRF - Results
Herman Hitson’s Soul-Guitar Comeback “At 79, the wah-wah crazy guitarist is a living nexus of psychedelia-soaked blues and rock.” | Read More at Premier...
Jan 3, 2023 | MMRF - Results
Song Premiere: Gail Ceasar “Freight Train” “Ceasar’s style is as gritty and raw as the high lonesome wind, with her vulnerable vocals and clear acoustic melodic playing.” | Read More at Americana...
Jan 3, 2023 | MMRF - Results
Exclusive: Singer/Guitarist Gail Ceasar Premieres “Guitar Woman Blues” “It was the morning of July 1, 2022 in tiny Pittsville, Virginia. Piedmont blues and bluegrass singer/guitarist Gail Ceasar smelled smoke.” | Read More at American Blues...
Jan 3, 2023 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
MMF Extends Listener’s Circle Series, Announces 2023 Releases Culpeper, VA’s Jeffrey Scott raises Texas Longhorn cattle, farms hogs, and works as a mortician and long-haul truck driver and has worked as a state trooper, sheriff, and grave-digger—but he’s also...
Jan 3, 2023 | MMRF - Results
Bentley’s Bandstand: December 2022 (Part 2) “There might not be many female blues singers out of Pittsville, Virgina, but it’s a surety there won’t be another better than Gail Ceasar.” | Read More at Americana...
Dec 27, 2022 | Village of the Sun - Results
Frank Zappa, David Perrico, Village of the Sun & More: The Week in Jazz “Together, they enter relatively new territory on their debut album, First Light, born out of a shared passion for improvised instrumental music.” | Read More at...
Dec 19, 2022 | Hermon Hitson - Results
Hermon Hitson, Let the Gods Sing “Hermon Hitson has dropped a 21st Century nod to classic Psychedelic Funk.” | Read More at The Alternate...
Dec 19, 2022 | Matt Charette - Results
Matt Charette & The Truer Sound, “4X4” “Sometimes you read an artist’s bio and their sound makes perfect sense.” | Read More at If It’s Too...
Dec 14, 2022 | Matt Charette - Releases, Press Releases
New Album Follows Choice Support Slots with Lucero, Lydia Loveless, & Everlast Boston’s “damn stellar” (Dying Scene) Matt Charette has come full circle. Following a childhood listening to his folks’ Bonnie Raitt and John Prine cassettes and dropping out of high...
Dec 14, 2022 | Matt Charette - Results
Matt Charette and the Truer Sound debut video for “4×4” from upcoming album Lo-Fi High Hopes “Alongside his trusty, slightly retooled band The Truer Sound, Boston-based Americana punk vet Matt Charette is back!” | Read More at Dying...