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Heads up: WILLIAM TYLER has a new awe-inspiring, genre-bending post-modern guitar opus out on MERGE RECORDS! We’re stoked!
Modern Country is the follow-up to William Tyler‘s highly acclaimed Merge debut, Impossible Truth. Modern Country features full-band arrangements on most of the tracks, provided by Phil Cook (Hiss Golden Messenger, Blind Boys of Alabama), Darin Gray (Tweedy, Jim O’Rourke), and Glenn Kotche (Wilco). An album trailer was shared when the record was announced in April, “Gone Clear” was premiered by All Songs Considered, and “Kingdom…
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PENNY PARSONS’ new book, FOGGY MOUNTAIN TROUBADOUR: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CURLY SECKLER, takes us down the bluegrass legend’s road from Carolina cotton fields to Nashville Grass.
With his trademark mandolin style and unequaled tenor harmonies, Curly Seckler has carved out a seventy-seven-year career in bluegrass and country music. His foundational work in Flatt and Scruggs’s Foggy Mountain Boys secured him a place in bluegrass history, while his role in The Nashville Grass made him an essential part of the music’s triumphant…
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PEARL JAM at the BON SECOURS WELLNESS ARENA on Record Store Day. How could we NOT expect them to stop by your friendly neighborhood record store and do some shopping? Then Eddie Vedder did something we DIDN’T expect, in front of about 16,000 people.
Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Matt Cameron dropped by over Record Store Day weekend to indulge their music-geek tendencies, and we were floored. Mike & merch. Mike rockin’ the Horizon tee at the show: McCready & Berger surveying the vinyl goodness. Martin N’ Matt Cameron Eddie Vedder saluted us from the stage at the Bon…
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Stones Throw Records reissues the hip-hop classic DONUTS by J DILLA!
The best albums create their own world. Through music and lyrics and production, they immerse the listener in whatever universe they’ve conjured through the speakers. Donuts, the 2006 masterpiece by rapper and producer J Dilla is one of those great records. After rising from the rap underground in the mid 90’s as part of the…
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LUTHER DICKINSON’S new “BLUES & BALLADS” album is one for the ages; a stripped-down collection of juke-joint rhythms and low-down acoustic blues.
“When community, word of mouth, firsthand experience, books, records and art still ruled.” We’re pretty much fans of everything Luther Dickinson has done. He’s made some incredible modern electric blues with the North Mississippi Allstars and created a killer raw, raucous, slide-guitar-happy side-project with Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo and Indigenous guitarist Mato Nanji called Three…
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Record Store Week: THE MATT FLINNER TRIO! Sizzlin’ string-jazz-grass and roots TOMORROW in The Bohemian Café at 5pm!
Led by one of the most respected mandolinists in today’s acoustic scene, Matt Flinner and his trio partners, Ethan Ballenger (guitar) and Eric Thorin (bass), are sonically founded in bluegrass, jazz, classical and American acoustic music. Over the past decade, the Matt Flinner Trio has been on the cutting edge of the 21st century string band…
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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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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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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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