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Southern Avenue – Family

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 By Bill Wilcox

If you’re looking for a prescription to help get by in these darkish times, perhaps some unbridled optimism to offset the rancor that is so prevalent today, then Southern Avenue’s new Family might be just what the doctor ordered. When blues guitarist Ori Naftaly left his native Israel to compete in the International Blues Challenge […]

Filed Under: Blues, Gospel, Reviews, Roots, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Southern Avenue

American Aquarium’s Road Trip to Raleigh 2025

Thursday, February 20, 2025 By Chip Frazier

Every year the first weekend of February B. J. Barham hosts American Aquarium’s Road Trip to Raleigh. In fact, this year was the Tenth anniversary of Road Trip. As usual it was held at Lincoln Theater in downtown Raleigh. It was the second time I attended, with last year being my first. One thing for […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Alt-Country, Americana, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie Rock, Outlaw Country, Reviews, Rock, Roots, Soul/R&B Tagged With: American Aquarium, BJ Barham, Maggie Rose, Taylor Hunnicut, The Droptines, The Lone Bellow, The Wilder Blue

Monday Morning Video – Sam & Dave

Monday, January 13, 2025 By Mayer Danzig

When I think back to the pivotal artists that cemented my lifelong love of music, Sam & Dave rank high on the list.  I stumbled across the Atlantic Records R&B Anthology and was immediately drawn to Sam and Dave’s magic.  The energy, the songs, the voices – they were all something special. Sam Moore passed […]

Filed Under: In Memoriam, Soul/R&B, Videos Tagged With: Bruce Springsteen, Sam and Dave

Mayer’s Picks – Best Songs of 2024, Part 2

Thursday, December 19, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

I posted my list of favorite from the first half of 2024 back in June (here). Rather than replicate that list for my full year review, consider this a continuation — the best songs from the second half of 2024. Rosemary and Thieves, Garrett Owen (from the self-released Memoriam) Owen’s tale of fractured relationships is […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Playlists, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Aerosmith, Aloud, Ashley Monroe, Butch Walker, Denitia, Dustin Lowman, Fancy Gap, Garrett Owen, John Calvin Abney, Kevin Gordon, Leeroy Stagger, Lisa Bastoni, Maggie Antone, Maggie Rose, Malin Pettersen, Melanie MacLaren, Michael McDermott, Paul Kelly, Somebody Someone, Sophie Gault, The Bluest Sky, The Damnwells, Tyler-James Kelly, Waxahatchee

Mayer’s Picks, More 2024 Favorites

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

Here, in no particular order, are more favorites from 2024.

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Outlaw Country, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Adeem the Artist, Dustin Lowman, Fancy Gap, Fruition, Golden Everything, Goodnight Texas, Heather Little, Jeffrey Foucault, Jesse Dayton, John Calvin Abney, John Moreland, Jon Muq, Lydia Loveless, Maggie Rose, Melanie MacLaren, Michelle Malone, Paul Kelly, Sam Morrow, Silverada, The Damnwells, The FBR, The Great Dying, The HawtThorns, Tyler-James Kelly

Mayer’s Picks – Best of 2024, the Albums

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

Lizzie No

11. Our Time in the Sun by Jeremie Albino Bursting with raw emotion, swaggering grooves, and a touch of grit, Jeremie Albino’s Our Time in the Sun is a joyous revival of classic soul. Albino may sing about “Rolling Down the 405” in California, but one listen and you’ll imagine yourself cruising down Highway 72 […]

Filed Under: Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Christopher Paul Stelling, Denitia, Fantastic Cat, Garrett Owen, Jeremie Albino, Kevin Gordon, Leeroy Stagger, Lizzie No, Maggie Antone, Michael McDermott, Sophie Gault

Effie Zilch – Multitudes

Thursday, December 12, 2024 By Shawn Underwood

We are all, to some extent, a product of our environment. When it comes to music that frequently manifests itself in a favored genre. But what if you’ve worked with artists from Leon Bridges to John Legend to the Rolling Stones? And you’ve scored and acted in a Sam Shepard play and written a movie […]

Filed Under: Americana, Roots, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Effie Zilch

Warren Haynes – Million Voices Whisper

Thursday, November 21, 2024 By Shawn Underwood

Although younger than Willie by almost 30 years, Warren Haynes is maybe the last leaf on a different tree. With the recent passing of Dickey Betts, Haynes is now the elder statesman in a large group of southern rock and jam band musicians building on the legacy of The Allman Brothers Band. He just released […]

Filed Under: Blues, Outlaw Country, Reviews, Rock, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Warren Haynes

Mayer’s Playlist for Fall 2024

Thursday, November 07, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

Give It To Me One Last Time, Jeremie Albino (from the Easy Eye Sound release Our Time in the Sun) Canada’s Jeremie Albino traveled to Nashville to record an album steeped in Memphis and Muscle Shoals soul. In Nashville, Albino teamed with Dan Auerbach to create an outstanding album that has a retro feel without […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Blues, Country, Folk, Pop, Reviews, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, Streams, Videos Tagged With: Dustin Lowman, Emily Frembgen, Jenny Don't & the Spurs, Jeremie Albino, Leeroy Stagger, Lydia Loveless, Maggie Antone, Melanie MacLaren, Paul Kelly, Rebecca Haviland, The Roamers, Wonderly, ZZ Ward

Americana 2024, Mayer’s Picks (Part 2)

Thursday, October 03, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

LYDIA LOVELESS Loveless played two shows to celebrate a new album, Something Else, a reimagined version of her 2014 release Somewhere Else.  The new release is nearly entirely Loveless solo on piano and was the focus of a stunning Thursday appearance at Todd Snider’s Purple Building.  The next afternoon Loveless and John Calvin Abney brought […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Americana Music Conference, Country, Folk, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Dave Alvin, Ella Hooper, J. Isaiah Evans & The Boss Tweed, Jack Ingram, Jaimee Harris, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, John Calvin Abney, Kelly Willis, Lori McKenna, Lydia Loveless, Mary Gauthier, Melody Walker, Paisley Fields, Radney Foster, Remy Reilly, Sophie Gault, Sunny Sweeney, Tyler-James Kelly

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