Sep 24, 2020 | American Songwriter, Bible & Tire - Results
Rare, Rousing Gospel Is Rescued By Fat Possum Label Founder “The advance promotional material of this trip back to the 70s calls these 17 songs ‘unsung grooving Memphis sacred soul’; that’s succinct and on target.” | Read More at American...
Sep 17, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, No Depression
The Reading Room: Art, Music, and History Merge in Hanging Tree Guitars “North Carolinian Freeman Vines is one such luthier, though until now his story has been little known outside of his small patch of ground in eastern North Carolina.” | Read More at...
Sep 14, 2020 | Chiminyo - Results, Jazziz
Chiminyo featured in New Music Monday “Its latest single, “Breathin’” finds him unleashing expressive beats on his tech-heavy drum kit and showcasing a unique, transcendental sound.” | Read More at...
Sep 14, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, NPR
The Wood’s ‘Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly–Just Strange’ “A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines.” | Read More at...
Sep 11, 2020 | Hanging Tree Guitars - Results, Premier Guitar
How a North Carolina luthier’s instruments unearthed a buried story of the American South “Luthier and musician Freeman Vines was 8 or 9 years old when his neighbor, an older white man named Oscar Hopper, introduced him to the guitar.” | Read More...
Sep 10, 2020 | American Songwriter, Hanging Tree Guitars - Results
Hanging Tree Guitars Delivers Important Insights About America’s Racial Divide “At a time when America is struggling mightily to address past and present racial injustices, his story couldn’t be more relevant.” | Read More at American...
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...
