Category: Genespeak – The Cranky Dubmaster
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CLAIRE LYNCH’s beautiful new album NORTH BY SOUTH, a tribute to great Canadian songwriters, is out! And yes, we’re PUMPED.
On North by South, Claire Lynch pays homage to her favorite Canadian songwriters on a set of bluegrass and new acoustic tracks. After her recent marriage to a Canadian, Lynch began to dig into the vast catalog of songs written by Canadian songwriters and found the inspiration for this project. Working with Alison Brown in…
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NEW RELEASES 10/7: THE MARCUS KING BAND’s new album is upon us, along with a long-awaited SHOVELS & ROPE album, new HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER & TODD SNIDER!
20-year-old guitar wizard and home-grown Upstate phenomenon Marcus King is standing on the verge of something much bigger. Marcus and his lethally talented namesake band have all the instinctive talent, blues chops and road-tested experience to be one of the great groups of our time, and their new self-titled album, produced by ex-Allman Brother Warren…
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WILCO’s new album, SCHMILCO, is out now on INDIE-RECORD-STORE-ONLY PINK VINYL! Thanks to all who came that day!
Mostly an acoustic collection, Schmilco bears neither the vicious, fuzz-glam guitars of Star Wars, nor the dazzling, baroque-ish arrangements that fans have come to expect from Wilco. But in their place is a spaciousness and chaos that might feel welcome after 20-some years of enjoyed but now-familiar Wilco releases.
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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.
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…
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GOV’T MULE releases one from the vaults with THE TEL-STAR SESSIONS, out now on Warren Haynes’ Evil Teen Records!
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 –…
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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 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…
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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!
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…
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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!
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…
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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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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.