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Newport Folk Festival 2019 – Looking Back at the New Faces

Thursday, August 15, 2019 By Jeff McMahon

Newport Folk Festival has made it a practice to bring fresh faces in front of a discerning crowd of music fans. The 2019 edition was no different and the new artists certainly made a splash. J.S. Ondara only needed one song to bowl me over. I heard him sing “Saying Goodbye” as his last song […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Newport Folk Festival, Reviews Tagged With: Courtney Marie Andrews, Gregory Alan Isakov, J.S. Ondara

SXSW 2019 – The Sounds, Part 1

Thursday, March 28, 2019 By Mayer Danzig

BALTO I was sold on Balto as soon as I heard the blistering slide on “Black Snake, Mojave Blues”, the sample track that they shared on their SXSW profile page. Seeing them live provided an exclamation point – I caught two exceptional raucous and greasy outdoor sets in the afternoon sun. The LA-based quartet were […]

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Bluegrass, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B, SXSW Tagged With: Asleep at the Wheel, Austin Lucas, Balto, Band of Heathens, Brett Newski, Collective Soul, Ed Roland, J.S. Ondara, Joshua Ray Walker, Mating Ritual, Ray Benson, Robert Randolph, Strand of Oaks, Western Youth, Yola

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