Jun 7, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Dedicated Men of Zion (DMZ) – the North Carolina sacred soul family quartet that’s been featured in an NPR Tiny Desk Concert – has confirmed a northeast tour, an appearance on NPR Mountain Stage, and released a new music video. NPR Music said, “The world needs this...
Jun 6, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins – In Paris! | Album Review “This is a good insight into what made Beverly Watkins a great live performer, even at 73 years of age when this was recorded!” | Read More at Blues Blast...
Jun 3, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results
Folk Alliance International 2022 Conference “Most of the musicians I know have benefited from that group at one time or another. Perhaps the best at channeling information, or an introduction when it’s needed most, is Folk Alliance International.” | Read...
Jun 3, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Music Maker Relief Foundation to Release Album June 1 on CD to Its Listeners Circle, July 1 to the General Public via Streaming and Download Flames engulfed Birmingham, Alabama bluesman Charles “Sugar Harp” Burroughs’ van, packed with all of his belongings and...
Jun 2, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results
Reviews from American Back Roads: Son House, Ann Peebles, Johnny Ray Daniels and more “Loaded with the gutsy growls and falsetto whoops of long-ago gospel, the album (produced in Memphis by Watson and guitarist Will Sexton) brings hope and joy.” | Read...
May 31, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Exclusive: Harmonica Master Sugar Harp Premieres Title Track “Sugar Is My Name” “When Charles Burroughs was 8 years old in Tampa, Florida, his great-grandfather would simultaneously blow harp and strum a handmade guitar formed from an orange crate...
May 31, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results, No Depression
Through the Lens: Connections and Community at 2022 Folk Alliance International “FAI brings the biggest names in roots music together with lesser known, yet significant purveyors of the folk music tradition on a stage as equals.” | Read More at No...
May 27, 2022 | Xanthe Alexis - Results
Conversations with Xanthe Alexis “I also struggled to find my footing as a woman on the road and learn how to be tough and assertive and professional and let people know I mean business and take myself seriously as an artist.” | Read More at Nashville...
May 27, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results
Willi Carlisle: An Artist’s View on Folk Alliance International “Folk Alliance International is a once-yearly madhouse of friends, family, education, outreach, and charity.” | Read More at Folk...
May 25, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
4 Stars: Johnny Ray Daniels, Whatever You Need “This album presents a tight set of sacred-soul music, a particularly spicy flavor of gospel that’s popular in Daniels’s home base of Eastern North Carolina.” | Read More at The Audio...
May 25, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results
FAI Keynote & Artist in Residence Presentations from Saskia Tomkins and Madeleine Peyroux Chart Healing Journeys “Folk Alliance International hosted Madeleine Peyroux and Saskia Tomkins for a Keynote Address and Artist in Residence presentation on Friday,...
May 25, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results
FAI Keynote Interview: Shirley Collins and Will Hodgkinson Talk “America Over The Water” “Shirley Collins, one of the mavens of folk rock in England was interviewed documentary-style by Will Hodgkinson of The Times via video and they were both...
May 25, 2022 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby, Winter Hill Blues “It was two years ago I first heard Ryan Lee Crosby play at the virtual Juke Joint Fest in Clarksdale, Mississippi.” | Read More at Philly Cheeze...
May 21, 2022 | Atwood Magazine, Binker Golding - Results
Atwood’s Editors Picks, May 18 2022 Read More at Atwood...
May 18, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Allison Russell Earns Album of the Year & Artist of the Year While Crys Matthews Takes Home Song of the Year Kansas City, MO (May 18, 2022) – Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music and the producers of the International...
