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 It doesn't matter if you don't know anything about trucking. This is real honky-tonk country music. There's no airbrushing, no poofy hair, no designer cowboy hats, no rewritten 70s California folk rock songs passing themselves off as "country." This is country as it was meant to be. Songs about women, coffee, and truckin', dang it. As completely honest and out-of-style as Dale's hair-tonic |
 Award winning guitarist Duke Robillard has travelled the world over the last 40 years playing his special blend of blues and classic jazz. He’s recorded with, played with, or produced many of the most important artists of the last several decades, including Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Ruth Brown, Johnny Adams, Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon and The Fabulous Thunderbirds. With 20 albums under his own |
 Recorded in the old, wood-paneled president's office of
defunct bank in a series of late night sessions over the course of a year, Shoot
the Moon Right Between the Eyes: Jeffrey Foucault Sings the Songs of John Prine
offers compelling new interpretations of thirteen John Prine originals. In solo and duet arrangements with friends and touring
companions including Eric Heywood (Ray LaMontagne, |
 Ian Tyson remains one of the most significant figures in the folk/roots world – and in the world of Western music there are few artists who have better sung the stories of the vanishing cowboy tradition. From his early success with Ian & Sylvia in the early ‘60s and his breakthrough country rock work with The Great Speckled Bird, to his success as a songwriter (Someday Soon, Summer Wages, |
 In contemporary country music, it's a rare performer who will dare to take on the industry on her own hogs-and-kisses terms. But for the artist whom Nanci Griffith has called "this generation's Loretta Lynn," it takes a certain tenacity to meld smart attitude with classic tradition, the credibility of a life lived with genuine hillbilly passion, and the integrity to write an acclaimed cache of |
 Female Folk Supergroup Sometymes Why Release Your Heart is a Glorious Machine Second Release Showcases Sirens Vocal Talent.
Three beguiling female musicians Aoife O'Donovan, Kristin Andreassen, and Ruth Ungar Merenda, together known as Sometymes Why, will release their sophomore record Your Heart is a Glorious Machine on the venerated Signature Sounds Recording label. The seductive incantations |
 Kelly Joe Phelps returns with Western Bell his eight full-length album and first all instrumental record. All songs feature solo performances recorded live in studio. Phelps performs on 6 and 12- string guitars, and makes a long-anticipated return to lap-side guitar. The vast majority of the numbers are improvised on the spot and Phelps seems t odeconstruct the very instrument that’s carried him |
 Truth & Fiction is the fourth CD from soulful singer-songwriter Rob Lutes. Recorded in an intimate studio in Montreal during the first week in September 2008 with noted roots producer David Goodrich (Chris Smither, Jeffrey Foucault), the CD contains 11 new Lutes tunes and a cover of Warren Zevon’s Mutineer.
“The process was so creative this time,” Lutes says. “David put us all in a |
 Like many soulful female vocalists who came before her with something different – see Patsy Cline, Bjork, Kate Bush - Jenn Grant has a voice that carries any tune with pride and any melody with ease. She is unapologetic in her emotion and the gusto with which she delivers her beautifully penned songs.
From her debut record, Orchestra for the Moon, Jenn's name has surfaced in four star reviews |
 LUMEN is Music of the world withouth the wish to be caged as being world Music. It reaches out across borders, religions, Music genres or political statements to the heart of the Music listener. This album has 11 brand new tracks, together with Sophie Cavez (BE) on diatonic accordion and Raphaela Danksagmuller who plays duduk (Armenian Uboe) on the title track. At the first NO Blues sessions in |
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