WABE Features Shelton Powe

WABE Features Shelton Powe

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...
WABE Features Shelton Powe

Cattleman, Hog Farmer, Mortician, & Truck Driver Jeffrey Scott–Nephew of Renowned Smithsonian Folkways Piedmont Blues Artist John Jackson–To See Debut Album Going Down to Georgia on a Hog at Age of 57 via Music Maker Foundation on March 3

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...
WABE Features Shelton Powe

Americana Highways Highlights Gail Ceasar

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...
Jazziz Highlights Village of the Sun

Jazziz Highlights Village of the Sun

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...
Americana Highways Premiere: Matt Charette, “Wrecking Ball”

Boston’s “Damn Stellar” (Dying Scene) Matt Charette Turns to Americana Songwriting from Punk and Hardcore with Full-Hearted, Gritty New Album Lo Fi High Hopes Out March 10

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...
Americana Highways Premiere: Matt Charette, “Wrecking Ball”

Dying Scene Debuts “4 X 4” Music Video

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...