Archive for the Genespeak – The Cranky Dubmaster Category

Thank you Greenville and all who attended for making JOSH WHITE DAY and the JOSH AT MIDNIGHT release party such an incredible, beautiful, magical event. We love you.

On August 12, 2016 / Calendar_Landing_Pages, Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster

What an amazing day we had paying homage to Greenville’s great bluesman JOSH WHITE. Thank you to all who attended, thanks to Mayor Knox White, Councilman Lillian Brock Flemming, State Representative Chandra Dillard, Dolph Ramseur of Ramseur Records and of course to Josh White Jr. AND DON’T FORGET: Ramseur Records’ incredible reissue of “Josh At […]

GOV’T MULE releases one from the vaults with THE TEL-STAR SESSIONS, out now on Warren Haynes’ Evil Teen Records!

On August 12, 2016 / Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster

Legendary rock torchbearers Gov’t Mule will release a new archival album entitled The Tel-Star Sessions on August 5, 2016 via Evil Teen Records. The LP consists of the band’s very first, and never-before-released, demos made in June 1994 at Tel-Star Studios in Bradenton, Florida. These newly mixed and mastered recordings feature the original line-up – […]

After blowing our collective minds with last year’s massive 4-disc 10 Years Solo Live set, BRAD MEHLDAU has reunited with his trio for the first time since 2012 with a new record on Nonesuch called Blues & Ballads. Gene is doing cartwheels. No, seriously.

On May 31, 2016 / Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster

On the heels of the epic and life –changing four disc 10 Years Live set, BRAD MEHLDAU returns with his magical trio, Larry Grenadier (bass), and Jeff Ballard (drums) with Blues and Ballads, the trio’s first new release since 2012’s Where Do You Start, on June 3 on Nonesuch Records. At Horizon Records, where we do […]

Longtime Carolina favorite sons & Horizon-friendly arena warriors THE AVETT BROTHERS have returned with a new album, TRUE SADNESS! They’re playing Bon Secours Wellness Arena on SATURDAY, OCT. 29th! Tickets on-sale NOW!

On May 12, 2016 / Feature, Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster, News & Releases - Latest & Greatest

They’re headed back. We’re glad. THE AVETT BROTHERS have built a following starting from their earliest, modest old-timey/punky releases to the globe-trotting Madison Square Garden-level post-modern folk-pop-roots-punk-type rock icon status they’ve now earned. See them light up the arena in downtown Greenville on October 29th with songs from their new album True Sadness, out now […]

RECORD STORE DAY 2016 rocked as it has never rocked before, thanks to YOU, with a little help from PEARL JAM & ROSANNE CASH! Much love and appreciation to all who helped make April 16th a rousing success! We couldn’t have made it to 40 years without you!

On April 15, 2016 / Calendar, Feature, Feature, Gene Speak, Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster, Recent Interest

ok, its now 4 days or so since the EPIC love-fest that was ‪#‎RSD16‬ here at our humble down south record store and i wanted to make a way too brief but intensely heartfelt LOUD THANK YOU shout out to everyone near and far who stopped in here, shopped, wished us well or just social […]

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.

On February 25, 2016 / Feature, Gene Speak, Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster

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 […]

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.

On February 10, 2016 / Feature, Feature, Feature, Gene Speak, Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster

“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.

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN: Makin’ beautiful music together since 2014.

On February 10, 2016 / Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster

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.

BRAD MEHLDAU 10 Years Solo Live 4CD set is my pick for best of 2015.

On January 1, 2016 / Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster, Recent Interest

THIS is the music I wouldn’t want to live without, and that I can’t and won’t stop listening to for years to come. “Ever since 1995 when I first heard the first track on BRAD MEHLDAU’s first CD Introducing Brad Mehldau and forward 20 years to this release he has consistently been one of my all-time […]

yes! RANDALL BRAMBLETT returns for an in-store show, just in time for our 40th anniversary!

On October 16, 2015 / Cafe Events, Events - Concerts at Horizon, The Bohemian Cafe, the Upstate and beyond., Feature, Feature, Genespeak - The Cranky Dubmaster, Horizon Events

Saying that RANDALL BRAMBLETT will be playing his 2nd “solo” show at Horizon is a bit misleading. A solo show is some guy playing an acoustic guitar; the brilliant Randall Bramblett can switch between sax, jazz-inflected keyboards and acoustic/electric guitar, all while belting out his thoughtful, perceptive lyrics in that distinctive, raspy howl. “I have loved Georgia native RANDALL BRAMBLETT’s work […]