Month: February 2016
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NEW STUFF OUT 2/26: MOUNT MORIAH, WACO BROS. & a tribute to BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON!
This week, Mount Moriah stretches out the increasingly loose definition of “Americana,” the Waco Bros. keep it gritty. Shooter Jennings goes disco (that is not a joke), we get some tasty Gene-jazz-and classical from Ralph Alessi and Tord Gustavsen, and Willie Nelson spends summertime with Mr. Gershwin. Read on…. NEW GOODIES MOUNT MORIAH, How To Dance (CD/LP) Mount…
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Alligator Records’ new tribute album, GOD DON’T NEVER CHANGE: THE SONGS OF BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON is amazing. Some of our favorite artists, including Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Luther Dickinson and Derek Trucks pay homage to a legendary bluesman.
If you can judge a person by the company they keep, then the late, legendary bluesman Blind Willie Johnson must have been quite a guy. At least, that’s what Alligator Records’ new tribute album, “God Don’t Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson” tells us. After all, how many other musicians could bring TOM…
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CARLOS HENRIQUEZ, bassist of Jazz At Lincoln Center BRINGS IT on his debut CD, “Bronx Pyramid!”
Carlos Henriquez’s THE BRONX PYRAMID marks the Bronx-born, Nuyorican bassist’s first album as a leader and the emergence of a fully fledged Latin jazz master. Joined by guest stars Rubén Blades and Pedrito Martinez and band members including drummer and fellow Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra member Ali Jackson, Henriquez expertly blends modern jazz with…
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JB “the Indicator” aka John Byce picks the best of 2015 releases. We stock em, you’ll like em.
JB knows. As an avid music collector, a bodacious drummer, a true connoisseur of sonic wonderment trends in modern rock and related music each year The Indicator offers us his distillation of the year’s expansive releases dialed down to 17 must-haves. This is a veritable check list for 12 months of great tunes from High-Fidelity…
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Horizon Records Celebrates 40 Years
Horizon Records “an adventure for your ears” in Greenville, SC clocks 40. In a retail world of disappearing independents and Mom & Pop’s under the crush of online competition and music stores thriving in some places and cases whilst iconic stores are closing in many others from the onslaught of escalating real estate values, Horizon…
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SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA and GILLES PETERSON collaborate through space and time on this 2-LP collection, “In The Orbit Of Ra.” Get lost in the endless universe of Ra’s one-of-a-kind mind as Peterson compiles his favorite moments from the galactic-jazz bandleader.
“I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.” — Sun Ra.
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BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN: Makin’ beautiful music together since 2014.
The first couple duo of global banjo artistry and folk eclecticism co-bill a family effort. You know BELA FLECK already. Master of the banjo. 13-time Grammy-winner. Conqueror of jazz, classical, bluegrass, progressive and world music. Teacher, student and all-around guru of his instrument.
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BOB MARGOLIN! North Carolina’s own Blues legend and roots journeyman releases My Road.
The Steady Rollin’, No Controllin’ BOB MARGOLIN is back, with an incredible album called “My Road,” in-stock now on CD at Horizon Records. Equal parts biography, travelogue, soul-baring memoir and blues guitar showdown, “My Road” is the culmination of 50 years of playin’ and singin’ the blues around the world, both standing alongside Muddy Waters…
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NEWNESS 2/19: MALCOLM HOLCOMBE, CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, MAVIS STAPLES, MATMOS & a LOT more!
This week, Malcolm Holcombe invites us back into his world of indelibly drawn down-and-out, hard-luck characters, Carrie Rodriguez revisits her roots, Mavis Staples raises the roof, Peter Erskine stays true to his school and Matmos does some laundry. Read on…. NEW GOODIES CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Lola (CD) As a singer-songwriter and violinist, Carrie’s repertoire includes country,…
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NEW RELEASES 2/12: SNARKY PUPPY, VINCE GILL & SO MUCH AWESOME JAZZ
All that jazz in the New Release lineup this week? Sure. You’ll find new stuff by Michel Benita, Avishai Cohen and Michael Formanek to feed your brain. But we’ve also got Paul Carrack and Vince Gill to serve up some melodic comfort food of the pop-soul and country varieties. And that’s all without mentioning the…