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Monday Morning Video – Mavis Staples & Friends

Monday, August 23, 2021 By Mayer Danzig

Let’s continue with the “and friends” theme that we started last week. Next up is a three-fer from the great Mavis Staples. First, a 1988 performance of the Staples Singers classic “I’ll Take You There” that features Dr. John and Jeff Healey. Second, a 2011 backstage rehearsal of the Band’s “The Weight” with Wilco and […]

Filed Under: Americana, Gospel, Pop, Soul/R&B, Videos Tagged With: Dr. John, Jeff Healey, Lake Street Dive, Mavis Staples, Nick Lowe, Wilco

Monday Morning Video – Hothouse Flowers “Give It Up”

Monday, June 28, 2021 By Mayer Danzig

Long-time readers may recall that I like to listen to my iPod on shuffle. I love the surprise when it randomly reminds me of a favorite song from years gone by. Last week it pulled out this gem from Ireland’s Hothouse Flowers. I’m particularly enamored with this live version circa 2014, complete with a horn […]

Filed Under: Gospel, Pop, Rock, Videos Tagged With: Hothouse Flowers

Pine Hill Haints – The Song Companion of a Lonestar Cowboy

Wednesday, June 02, 2021 By Chip Frazier

When you have been traversing your region of the country as a band of troubadours for over twenty years you can’t be called an overnight success. However, they have been successful none the less. Now finally the band as delivered an album that should be their breakout to a wider audience. On the new album […]

Filed Under: Alt-Country, Americana, Blues, Country, Gospel, Reviews, Rockabilly, Roots, Videos Tagged With: Alabama Shakes, Pine Hill Haints

Avi Kaplan – I’ll Get By

Thursday, March 05, 2020 By Chip Frazier

Sometimes a voice comes along that has the potential to carry an entire album. No instrumentation needed. Avi Kaplan has such a voice. This probably shouldn’t be a surprise given his background in the uber-popular acapella group Pentatonix. I must admit to not being much of a fan of them or acapella groups in general. […]

Filed Under: Americana, Folk, Gospel, Reviews Tagged With: Avi Kaaplan, Pentatonix

EP Gems: The Family Band & Kailey Nicole

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 By Shawn Underwood

Before I fall into the end-of-year routine I wanted to highlight a couple of EP’s that struck me particularly well. One’s been out a couple of months and the other releases next month. I’ll start with the one that’s not out just yet, Kailey Nicole’s self-titled release. Raised in southern California, Nicole started her artistic […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Gospel, Reviews Tagged With: Kailey Nicole, The Family Band

Che Apalache – Rearrange My Heart

Thursday, October 03, 2019 By Shawn Underwood

So much of the early development of Americana and roots music sprung out of the mountains of Appalachia and the cotton fields of the Delta that we tend forget how popular a lot of it is across the globe. And like any musical style, once musicians learn it they start adding their own influences. Nothing […]

Filed Under: Americana, Bluegrass, Gospel, Jazz Tagged With: Bela Fleck, Che Apalache

Marc Cohn & Blind Boys Of Alabama – Work To Do

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 By Shawn Underwood

Several years later I still remember seeing them do it. The Blind Boys Of Alabama, that night accompanied by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, doing Amazing Grace, set to the tune of House Of the Rising Sun. It was the first 20 years of gospel influence in rock boiled down to its essence in a […]

Filed Under: Blues, Gospel, Pop, Reviews Tagged With: Blind Boys of Alabama, Marc Cohn

Yola – Walk Through Fire

Thursday, February 07, 2019 By Chip Frazier

Yola Carter is well known in her native U.K., and soon she will be just as well known on this side of the big pond. While she has received some recognition stateside, her new album “Walk Through Fire” will no doubt put her front and center of the Americana scene. The album was produced by […]

Filed Under: Americana, Country, Gospel, Reviews, Roots, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Dan Auerbach, The Black Keys, Yola, Yola Carter

Bonus Monday Video – Ted Hawkins

Monday, August 13, 2018 By Mayer Danzig

I previously wrote about my experience seeing Hawkins when he made a rare visit to Boston’s Faneuil Hall. There was nothing, however, like seeing him on his home turf – entertaining crowds on Venice Beach, California. Here’s a short but wonderful taste of what it was like.

Filed Under: Acoustic, Gospel, Soul/R&B, Videos Tagged With: Ted Hawkins

Mike Farris On A First Gig Playing a Drug Dealer’s “Club” and the Future of Live Music

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 By Mayer Danzig

Mike Farris reflects back on his first gig at a drug dealer’s “club” and offers his view on where the value of music, both live and recorded, is headed.

Filed Under: Americana, Blues, Genres, Gospel, Soul/R&B, Why It Matters Tagged With: Mike Farris

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Friends of Twangville

Polls

What is your favorite new release for week of May 16?

  • Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is (31%, 10 Votes)
  • Charlie Musselwhite – Lookout Highway (19%, 6 Votes)
  • Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke (9%, 3 Votes)
  • Barenaked Ladies – IN FLIGHT – CARRY ON (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Dan Mangan – Natural Light (6%, 2 Votes)
  • The Talbott Brothers – Borderlands (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Peter Rowan – Tales of The Free Mexican Airforce (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Kat Hasty – The Time of Your Life (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Ben Hackett – Songs for Sleeping Dogs (3%, 1 Votes)
  • The Lowtimers – Cracks (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Suzie Brown – Songs Worth Saving (3%, 1 Votes)
  • BEATrio – BEATrio (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Erin Durant – Firetrail (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Sweet Megg – Never Been Home (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Christian Rutledge – An Inch Of This New York Mile (0%, 0 Votes)
  • The Travelin’ McCourys – One Chord That Rings True (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 32

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