Oct 6, 2021 | Nora Brown - Releases, Press Releases
16 Year-Old Brown Featured on Apple Playlists, Confirmed to Headline Brooklyn Folk Fest Nov 12 Traditional banjo player and folksinger Nora Brown’s new album Sidetrack My Engine debuted at number six on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts this week, following several key...
Oct 5, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, Press Releases
Esquire, Apple Music Make it Featured New Release Picks Elder Jack Ward – the sacred soul singer born in the Mississippi Delta who came up singing blues songs before moving to Memphis and joining the Christian Harmonizers for their 1964 hit “Don’t Need No Doctor” – is...
Sep 29, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Album and accompanying film recorded in the field in makeshift recording studio in rural, eastern NC right before pandemic Bible & Tire Recording Co. and Music Maker Relief Foundation have shared the new single from the landmark Sacred Soul of North Carolina...
Sep 28, 2021 | Press Releases, The Cookers - Releases
Band elevates after close to a decade and a half playing together Formed for a one-off Freddie Hubbard tribute concert in New York, The Cookers—the band consisting of jazz veterans who have played in bands with the likes of Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock,...
Sep 21, 2021 | Chris Robley - Releases, Press Releases
Guest vocalists Anna Tivel and Margaret Gibson Wehr elevate indie-folk album Chris Robley shines on his new album A Filament In The Wilderness of What Comes Next, out last Friday on Cutthroat Pop Records. Taking a close look at the nation, Robley co-produced the album...
Sep 20, 2021 | Nora Brown - Releases, Press Releases
Sidetrack My Engine follows her NPR Tiny Desk, NPR Weekend Edition, Teaching Workshop at Newport Folk Fest, Globalfest Appearance The kind of year Nora Brown is having in 2021—playing an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, doing a performance/chat with NPR Weekend Edition,...
Sep 3, 2021 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Official Showcase Applications Opened September 1 “There were countless examples of folk as a valued element in the contemporary musical landscape… To wander the poster-festooned hallways was to be greeted by traditional folk in all its iterations, experience its...
Aug 17, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Accompanying Documentary Film Out Oct. 5 Via Folkstreams When Tim Duffy of the Music Maker Foundation took Memphis’ Bruce Watson (Fat Possum Records, Big Legal Mess, and the new Bible & Tire Recording Co.) to rural eastern North Carolina to hear sacred soul music,...
Jul 20, 2021 | Press Releases, The Cookers - Releases
Cookers Confirmed for New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest Set Oct. 9 “Genuine all-stars”–Guardian “Individually, they’ve been at the core of the post-bop jazz scene for decades. As a group, they’ve been thrilling audiences around the...
Jul 13, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, Press Releases
1st Single Out Tomorrow with Music Video Elder Jack Ward could’ve gone either way. He grew up in the Mississippi Delta, listening to Elmore James and Howlin’ Wolf and singing the blues himself. Living in Itta Bena, MS (also home to B.B. King), Ward made himself a...
Jun 28, 2021 | Press Releases, Sir Orfeo - Releases
Western Massachusetts’ Sir Orfeo masterful Millefleur came out Friday Western Massachusetts’ Sir Orfeo masterful ‘Millefleur’ came out Friday. Building off the verdant, homespun song-poems of ‘Wild Raspberries,’ ‘Millefleur’ is by turns earthy and vaporous, strolling...
Jun 10, 2021 | Press Releases, Wilburt Lee Reliford - Releases
American Blues Scene Premieres “Tappin’ That Thing’ In 1989, when Dutch folklorist Ko de Korte taped Wilburt Lee Reliford play a solo harmonica session that became the core of Seems Like a Dream (June 25 / Big Legal Mess), he could not have imagined...
Jun 3, 2021 | Chris Robley - Releases, Press Releases
First single “There’s a Bird” video premiered by MXDWN “Robley is indeed the very real deal.” – No Depression “America deserves more than ruin porn,” says Chris Robley. “Our pilot light hasn’t gone out yet.” And though his latest album A...
Jun 1, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, Press Releases
The Last Shall Be first: The JCR Records Story, Vol. 2 Follows Last Year’s Critically-Acclaimed Vol. 1, Hailed As “A Righteous Riot” by Mojo Following the widespread critical acclaim lavished upon Vol. 1 everywhere from NPR to Mojo, Bruce Watson’s...
May 3, 2021 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Musicians include John Paul White (The Civil Wars), June-Winners Rose Cousins and Lynn Miles, Two-Time Grammy Nominee Sean Ardoin, Grammy Nominee SaulPaul, Two-Time Grammy Nominee Eliza Gilkyson, Human Rights Defender Ramy Essam, and Acclaimed Spanish Quartet Las...
