Mar 7, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Bentley’s Bandstand: March 2022 “It’s not every day that a female blues guitar player born in 1939 releases an album of such burning beauty that there is no way not to stop and be overwhelmed.” | Read More at Americana...
Mar 3, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins’ new release–and the Northside Tavern gets some Hollywood love “Beverly “Guitar” Watkins may have passed away in 2019 with only a handful of under-the-radar recordings to her name to document her 50-plus year career, but her legend...
Feb 28, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Sacred Soul Pioneer Johnny Ray Daniels Premieres First Single ‘I Shall Not Be Moved’ From Upcoming Album “Johnny Ray made rock and roll history early on with the Soul Twisters, and later joined the church.” | Read More at American Blues...
Feb 22, 2022 | MMRF - Results
SONG PREMIERE: Late Blues Guitarist Beverly “Guitar” Watkins Gives a Funk Workout on “Do The Breakdown” “Ferocious vocals are matched by even more ferocious guitar playing, which exudes the kind of energy that would make Jame Brown smile.” | Read More at...
Feb 22, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Exclusive track premiere of ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ by astonishing North Carolina sacred soul quartet Dedicated Men of Zion “DMZ is led by Anthony “Amp” Daniels with his brother Antoine Daniels and his father Johnny Ray Daniels.” | Read More at...
Feb 4, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, Bluegrass Situation, MMRF - Results
Listen: Dedicated Men of Zion, “Lord Hold My Hand”” “In Their Words: ‘The difference in making this album from the last album was the level of comfort.'” | Read More at...
Feb 2, 2022 | MMRF - Results, No Depression
Album Review: Pianist Albert Smith’s Songs Pack Healing and Heart into Big Belly Mama “Albert Smith’s music has a smile in it. No matter the subject, the South Carolina pianist’s rattly, rollicking keyboard accompaniment creases a listeners’ face with happy...
Jan 31, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
The Dedicated Men of Zion Present a Soulful Gospel Experience on the “Sacred Soul” Song “Lord Hold My Hand” “The song is deeply entrenched in its spirituality and gospel roots while also having a funky instrumentation and the overall feel of classic soul without...
Jan 31, 2022 | American Songwriter, Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
New Song Friday! Hear New Tracks From Dedicate Men of Zion and More “Gospel group The Dedicated Men of Zion have a vocal mixture like your favorite honey cake.” | Read More at American...
Jan 27, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Exclusive: Music Maker Relief Foundation Presents Albert Smith’s “Down in Burningham” “Born in 1912 in Rembert, South Carolina, Albert began playing piano when he was 15 years old on an instrument his parents bought him from the Sears, Roebuck &...
Jan 25, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Exclusive: Dedicated Men of Zion Premiere Funky Sacred Soul Single “Lord Hold My Hand” “With Bruce Watson of Fat Possum at the helm, they have surpassed their debut with The Devil Don’t Like It, throughout which their jubilant harmonies...
Jan 18, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Premiering exclusively today is the slow-burning “Red Mama Blues” “Three years after her passing, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins’ first live album, In Paris, will be released by Music Maker Foundation on March 18.” | Read More at American Blues...
Jan 10, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Sacred Soul of North Carolina: Songs of praise, Southern style “3 1/2 stars…the stripped-back quality of the production has the effect of a collection of field recordings, a couple of mics hovering invisibly among these musicians’ day-to-day, unimposing...
Jan 6, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Twenty Triangle Releases That Made This Long Year Better “Recorded in February 2020 in the small eastern North Carolina town of Fountain in an exultant pre-COVID sprint, these 18 soul-stirring songs do more than just sing Jesus’s praises, though.” | Read...
Dec 3, 2021 | MMRF - Results
Music Maker to release live album of seminal blues guitarist Beverly “Guitar” Watkins “Coming in March 2022, blues label and nonprofit Music Maker this live album of blues guitarist Beverly “Guitar” Watkins cooks.” | Read More at Folk...
