Aug 26, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Rolling Stone
Hanging Tree Guitars: See Artist Freeman Vines’ Haunting Creations “Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for...
Aug 24, 2020 | Bible & Tire - Results, Brooklyn Vegan
70s Memphis gospel-soul ‘JCR Records Story’ comp coming “The Last Shall Be First: the JCR Records Story, Volume 1. is an upcoming compilation of raw 1970s Memphis gospel-soul coming out September 18 via Bible & Tire, the sacred soul music label started by...
Aug 20, 2020 | Bandcamp, Charles Tolliver - Results
Jazz Icon Reflects On His 50-Plus Years in Music “There’s no title track on the new album from Charles Tolliver—his first in over a decade. But its name—Connect—isn’t some ethereal abstraction: it’s an invitation.” | Read More at...
Aug 12, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Variety
A book, companion CD and virtual exhibit celebrates the life and work of musician and luthier Freeman Vines “Freeman Vines may not be a well known name in the music world, but his work is finally being recognized.” | Read More at...
Aug 4, 2020 | Boing Boing, Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Man builds guitars using wood from a lynching tree “Vines deeply moving work is the subject of a new photography book, Hanging Tree Guitars, with tintype images by Timothy Duffy and essays by Zoe Van Buren and Lonnie Holley.” | Read More at Boing...
Jul 31, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results, NPR
Podcast Includes Connect Among Featured Albums “NPR Music’s Bobby Carter, WBGO and Jazz Night in America’s Nate Chinen, NPR Music contributor Gavin Godfrey, NPR Music’s Tom Huizenga, Marissa Lorusso and NPR’s Ann Powers all join host...
Jul 31, 2020 | Charles Tolliver - Results, New York Times
NYT celebrates Tolliver’s “triumphant blues variations” “The trumpeter Charles Tolliver’s compositions tend to balance syncopated elements as if they were structural beams.” | Read More at...
Jul 24, 2020 | KEXP, Xanthe Alexis - Results
Xanthe Alexis Celebrates the Supernatural Strangeness of the Cosmos in “Moon” “Colorado-based folk musician Xanthe Alexis also understands the powerful pull of the planets and the supernatural undertones of the cosmos.” | Read More at...
Jun 26, 2020 | Bible & Tire - Results, NPR
New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out June 26 “John Morrison, Ann Powers, and Stephen Thompson of NPR Music as they share their picks for the best new albums out on June 26.” | Read More at...
Jun 21, 2020 | American Songwriter, Vanessa Collier - Results
Sax Queen Vanessa Collier Does It All on ‘Heart on the Line’ “But where so many musicians focus strictly on their primary instrument, Collier takes the reins on her albums as lead singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and even the player of an unexpected...
May 27, 2020 | MMRF - Results, PBS
A music maker sings the coronavirus blues “Musician Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen has long met adversity with music. She lost her New Orleans home to Hurricane Katrina and relocated to North Carolina with assistance from the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a group...
May 8, 2020 | CNN, MMRF - Results
Covid-19 taking toll on blues community “Cohen is part of a community of musicians trying to keep the blues alive in a landscape where live music is on hold and the artists dedicated to the genre are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19.” | Read More at...
Apr 27, 2020 | Atwood Magazine, Chris Milam - Results
Today’s Song: Wistful, Symphonic, Verdant “Phoenix” “With symphonic energy and lyrical grace, Chris Milam delivers a wistful, gusty anthem that dynamically feels like the great outdoors in new single “Phoenix.” | Read More at Atwood...
Apr 27, 2020 | American Songwriter, Chris Milam - Results
Chris Milam Discusses ‘Meanwhile’, a Non-Linear Album About Changing Times “Songwriter Chris Milam’s new album Meanwhile goes against all label trends…” | Read More at American...
Apr 27, 2020 | MMRF - Results, Rolling Stone
Meet the Blues Singer Who Won’t Stop Brightening Seniors’ Lives “She never stopped believing in kindness, and now she’s making a difference by playing socially-distanced nursing-home gigs.” | Read More at Rolling...
