Jun 27, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Dedicated Men of Zion – July 28 – Boston Museum of Fine Arts “About once in a generation one of those groups makes the leap to the roots music festival circuit, the latest being North Carolina’s Dedicated Men of Zion.” | Read More at Arts...
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...
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 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 16, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Freight Train Blues concert series brings Southern Folk and Blues music to Carrboro “Music Maker Foundation is holding a series of free concerts at Carrboro Town Commons every Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. from May 13 to June 10.” | Read More at...
Apr 25, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Whatever You Need, review by Thom Jurek “Whatever You Need is the debut album from 76-year-old North Carolina-based singer/guitarist Johnny Ray Daniels.” | Read More at All...
Apr 25, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
After Seven Decades, it’s Johnny Ray Daniels’ Season “And Johnny Ray Daniels didn’t release his first solo album until age 76. It’s never too late for your season.” | Read More at Journal of Gospel...
Apr 22, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results, Paste
New & Notable Vinyl Releases: Record Store Day 2022 Edition “Johnny Ray Daniels is musical royalty in his native North Carolina.” | Read More at...
Apr 5, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
We are proud to premiere the new single off the 76-year-old Sacred Soul vet’s long-awaited solo debut “And that’s why we are beyond thrilled to premiere new music from North Carolina sacred soul singer Johnny Ray Daniels today on the site.” | Read More...
Apr 4, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, “Do The Breakdown” “It takes us back to the funk era, and although she’s no longer with us, hearing her play and perform makes me feel like she’s still here.” | Read More at...
Mar 29, 2022 | MMRF - Results
MUSIQUE BOUTIQUE: Juanita Euka, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Karen Dalton, Irma Thomas “Beverly “Guitar” Watkins is another musician who broke ground as one of the few women musicians on the R&B circuit, wielding her guitar for decades before she finally got...
Mar 21, 2022 | MMRF - Results, No Depression
New Recording Shows Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins Rocking Hard “But slap a guitar in her hands, turn on the stage lights, and Beverly Watkins was transformed from a mild-mannered church lady into a rocking avenger, shredding anything that dared stand in her...
Mar 16, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins shows the blues is about intensity “Listening to this concert, recorded in 2012 (and one track from 2010), it seems inconceivable, and inexcusable, that a singer and guitarist with so much heart and talent could languish for...
Mar 14, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Dedicated Men of Zion, “A Change Is Gonna Come” “The most striking element is the incredible singing, born out of the North American soulfulness that also helped breathe the blues, funk, and, yes soul music.” | Read More at...
Mar 8, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Dedicated Men of Zion – The Devil Don’t Like It “Once again, they showcase their earthiness, beginning with the first cut, “Lord Hold My Hand,” which they wrap in Famous Flames freneticism.” | Read More at Journal of Gospel...
