Posts Tagged ‘recording’

Nashville Skyline: Lady Antebellum Carry Country Music These Days

One year ago, Taylor Swift was the best-selling recording artist in the world. Now, who is? Maybe Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga? It does not come as any great surprise that it’s Lady Antebellum. Their Need You Now is the best-selling album in all music genres in the world for the first half of this...

July 16th, 2010 | Artists | Read More

Golfer ‘Long John’ releases second studio album

Iconic golfer John Daly, or to those familiar with his backswing – “Long John” – released a new album off Nashville-based digital recording company GMV Nashville. “I Only Know One Way” is Daly’s second studio recording, and includes a mix of country, blues, ballads...

July 16th, 2010 | Features | Read More

Dierks Bentley to release “Up on the Ridge” June 8

Nashville recording artist Dierks Bentley will release “Up on the Ridge,” a raw, true-to-his-roots bluegrass album on June 8. Bentley co-wrote five of the tracks, and enlists the help of singers Alison Krauss, Tim O’Brien and Kris Kirstofferson to supplement the album. Listeners can...

June 3rd, 2010 | Features | Read More

Roland White “I Wasn’t Born to Rock ‘n Roll” Tompkins Square

It took thirty-four years for “I Wasn’t Born to Rock ‘n Roll” to be reissued on cd, and we should be thankful to Tompkins Square for seeking out lost treasures like this. Roland White may not be as immediately recognizable outside of bluegrass circles as names like Bill Monroe or Lester Flatt,...

June 2nd, 2010 | Album Reviews | Read More

Kate McGarrigle, 1946-2010

We are saddened today to learn of the death of Kate McGarrigle last night from cancer. She was 63. McGarrigle performed widely with her sister, Anna, for more than three decades, recording 10 albums. She was also well-known for being the matriarch of a musical family, the Wainwrights. McGarrigle was...

January 19th, 2010 | Artists, Features | Read More

On The Road With Port O’Brien – Interview

By Dan Evon I had been listening to Port O’brien for an entire week. I had gotten their album, All We Could do Was Sing, the previous year and was enamored with the eclectic mix of acoustic guitars, ancient rhythms, and choir like singing that reminded me of the Polyphonic Spree. Every track was...

November 2nd, 2009 | Features, Interviews | Read More

Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss/Soggy Bottom Boys)

The image is forever burned into our pop-culture consciousness. George Clooney, sporting overalls and scruff, wailing “Man of Constant Sorrow” in the Coen Brothers’ twangy Odyssey O’Brother, Where Art Thou? Then, there’s the man behind that scene: bluegrass singer-songwriter Dan Tyminski,...

August 31st, 2009 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More

PATTY LOVELESS TO RELEASE SEQUEL TO ACCLAIMED MOUNTAIN SOUL CD

Nashville, Tenn. – Fans of roots music have asked Patty Loveless for years to reprise the Appalachian sound of her 2001 Mountain Soul CD, and now she has. Saguaro Road Records will issue Mountain Soul II on September 29. Like its predecessor, the album will feature Patty’s crystalline country...

July 25th, 2009 | News, Release Dates | Read More

Opry Member Charlie Walker Passed Away Friday at 81

Excerpt from tennessean.com “Grand Ole Opry member and famed disc jockey Charlie Walker, whose shuffling, twinkling “Pick Me Up On Your Way Down” remains a country music standard a half-century after its recording, died Friday in Hendersonville. Mr. Walker was 81, and had recently...

September 15th, 2008 | Artists | Read More

Randy Travis “Around the Bend” Warner Bros.

Kyle McCraw Randy Travis has spent the last nine years recording only gospel music, and “Around the Bend” marks his return to country. Fans should be happy, as this is a solid album throughout. And despite the overly slick production, Travis sounds relaxed, having fun with the material,...

September 14th, 2008 | Album Reviews | Read More

Railroad Earth “Amen Corner” SCI Fidelity

by Lindsay Eanet The release of country jam band Railroad Earth’s fifth studio album, Amen Corner, comes with a sentimental and slightly tragic undertone. The band’s in-house video director, Dave Manzo, shot the music videos for the album at the historic blues venue the Stanhope House in Stanhope,...

August 16th, 2008 | Album Reviews | Read More