Category: News & Releases – Latest & Greatest
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SCOTT MCCAUGHEY gathers an all-star cast for the first-ever MINUS 5 Christmas album, Dear December, out now on Yep Roc Records!
“I wanted to evoke the classic Christmas album feeling without leaning too heavily on sweet baby Jesus and good ol’ Little St. Nick,” says McCaughey. “Yet I also wanted to curb my cynical tendencies as well. I feel we succeeded on both counts, and the results are a holiday record that should work for any…
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SWAG SATURDAY returned to Horizon, and Greenville helped us pay it FORWARD for food and warmth with donations for the TRIUNE MERCY CENTER while we gave away an assortment of vinyl, sampler CD’s, posters & more!
Horizon Records partnered with our pals at iongreenville and once again asked Greenville to join us and pay it FORWARD for Food and Warmth on Small Business Saturday! All day Saturday, Horizon Records celebrated Small Business Saturday and Greenville responded big time, bringing Food (non-perishables only), Warmth (need blankets, caps, gloves, socks) and of course…
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What a great and respectful crowd for American Primitive Guitar master, GLENN JONES tonight. We thank you, and PETE NOLAN & ED YAZIJIAN for opening the show!
Whoever said that Greenville’s music scene ain’t gettin’ it right wasn’t in the cozy confines of Horizon Records tonight, when Glenn Jones sat down in front of a great crowd and conjured magic from his specially tuned guitars and banjo. And as an extra treat, Pete Nolan and Ed Yazijian treated us to some incredible…
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BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN have returned with more beautiful dual-banjo virtuosity called ECHO IN THE VALLEY, out now on ROUNDER RECORDS!
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, the king and queen of the banjo, have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a fifteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who re-radicalized it by combining it with Far East culture and…
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Friend of HORIZON RECORDS and Newgrass vocalist extraordinaire JOHN COWAN returns to Asheville on SUNDAY, DEC. 10th, with Darin & Brooke Aldridge!
With his distinctive, rock-tinged tenor vocal and heart-thumping electric bass, John Cowan, along with fellow New Grass Revival band mates Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, and Curtis Burch, and later Bela Fleck and Pat Flynn, introduced a new generation of music fans to an explosive, experimental and ultimately, eponymous brand of bluegrass.
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What do you get when you combine a master of the oud, ANOUAR BRAHEM, with three giants of jazz improvisation? A must-hear collection of unpredictable modal bliss called BLUE MAQAMS.
The Maqams of the title refers to the Arabic modal music system, rendered kind of blue by the jazz players. For Anouar Brahem and renowned bassist Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first collaborated 20 years ago on the very widely-acclaimed Thimar album. Brahem meets Jack DeJohnette for the first time here,
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ANTIBALAS’ new album “Where The Gods Are In Peace” is an Afro-beat-punk-jazz-hip-hop politcally-charged broadside that takes aim at our contentious times.
Antibalas new studio album, Where The Gods Are In Peace, is an epic Afro-Western Trilogy searching for solace from American political opportunism, greed and vengeance. Through its battle cry of resistance against exploitation and displacement, Antibalas long-form compositions investigate oppression in 1800s America that eerily mirror the current state of the country.
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THE TEXAS GENTLEMEN, a loose, steady-rollin’ collective of alt-country cowboys, bring us a fresh batch of the good stuff on their new album, TX Jelly, out now on NEW WEST RECORDS!
This Lone Star-bred collective takes its cues from some of the iconic acts of the past — the quicksilver brilliance of The Wrecking Crew and Bob Dylan’s one-time backers The Band are the most obvious examples. Bedford, who shares chief engineering and producing responsibilities at Dallas’ Modern Electric Sound Recorders, assembled The Texas Gentlemen as…
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THE 2017 GREENVILLE RECORD FAIR was a huge success, and we had a packed house over at Horizon Records for our storewide sale. We thank you, we had a ball, and we love you!
The RECORD FAIR was a blast! People browsin’, buyin’, sellin’ and diggin’ music all day long! The vinyl flowed freely while we rocked our store-wide sale concurrently, right around the corner! Thank you! The 2017 Record Fair on SATURDAY SEPT 16th was a smashing success, and we thank you!
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IRON & WINE returns with a new album, BEAST EPIC, and a special message from Sam Beam!
“I must confess that I’ve always shied away from album introductions citing the usual ‘dancing to architecture’ cop out,” says Iron & Wine singer, songwriter and producer Sam Beam. “Speaking to their own work is uncomfortable for many artists, but I’ve made a new album called Beast Epic which is important to me and I…