Category: What We’re Into – Recent Interest
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Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’Blues CD out now!
And thanks for rocking the house Mac! Local hero, blues legend and our friend, Mac Arnold has a new CD. His bio is really hard to fathom. Mac is the real deal, yet amazingly humble and continues to play and produce great music into his eighties. It must be the collard greens.
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Classic Phish albums reissued on vinyl
Hey yall. JB is here announcing the reissue of three classic Phish albums and confessing his love of them. Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze, Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze, Wash uffizi, drive me to Firenze…
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Get Ready To Get Down @ The Marcus King Band Family Reunion THIS SATURDAY & SUNDAY Aug. 24-25!!
The Marcus King Band Family Reunion is back after a five-year hiatus,
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Greenville Gets Weird With Altered States Festival, Saturday July 27th!
The third installment of the Altered States Libations & Arts Festival is just around the corner, and man, there’s a lot to be excited about! Eighth State Brewing Co. is yet again hosting the all-ages event,
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Remembrance, The Final Duo Project of Béla Fleck & Chick Corea, Out Now!!
Remembrance serves as a moving final document of the profound creative and personal rapport between pioneering virtuoso banjoist, Béla Fleck, and the late legendary jazz pianist and composer, Chick Corea.
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Guitar Polymaths, James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg, Collaborate For Third Album, All Gist, Out April 12th!
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg’s third album of instrumental guitar recordings, All Gist, is coming soon!
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THE WHEEL SESSIONS steamroll into performance #105 on THURSDAY, FEB. 22nd. It’s the LOUIS HAYES QUARTET!
John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, Yusef Lateef, and Wes Montgomery; what do all of these jazz giants have in common? Legendary drummer Louis Hayes recorded/performed with all of them during his illustrious eight-decade-long (and counting) career!
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Tyler Ramsey Announces “New Lost Ages” Out Now!
New music, a massive tour and local performances have been announced by our friend, former Band of Horses guitarist, and Asheville’s own Tyler Ramsey! New Lost Ages is in stock now on vinyl LP & CD.
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Mean Gene wants to say THANKS!
Happy holidays music tribe! Well, Winter Solstice 2023 is now upon us. As I write this, Horizon Records is racing through our 49th Holiday Season. I am filled with a sense of surreal awe and boundless gratitude. I am bemused, and ok, a little proud of how a squirrely, Jazz, Folk, Psyche-Blues-Rock clueless fanatic collector…
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James Elkington Creates a Modern Library Masterwork with Latest Instrumental Album, Me Neither, Out 12/08!
“Quietly and in nearly the last week of December, possibly my favorite release of the year just landed. Without the crazed mob of social media sheep, James Elkington drops (via No Quarter Records) a totally honest, creative, life affirming, super personal all instrumental guitar centric masterpiece of postmodern folk compositions







