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Dion Releases 4th Single “I Got Nothin'”Featuring Van Morrison & Joe Louis Walker

Dion Releases 4th Single “I Got Nothin'”Featuring Van Morrison & Joe Louis Walker

Posted May 18, 2020 at 8:33 am | No comments

Legendary singer-songwriter, Dion has a new album, Blues With Friends, featuring 13 tracks with special guests including Billy Gibbons, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Beck, Paul Simon, Joe Bonamassa, Van Morrison, Brian Setzer, Sonny Landreth, Joe Louis Walker, Samantha Fish, Stevie Van Zandt and many more

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AXS TV Announces Season Premiere of ‘The Big Interview’ with Dan Rather’ on Wed., April 15 at 8 pm ET

AXS TV Announces Season Premiere of ‘The Big Interview’ with Dan Rather’ on Wed., April 15 at 8 pm ET

Posted March 27, 2020 at 2:41 pm | No comments

AXS TV announced today that the eighth season of its critically-acclaimed celebrity sit-down series The Big Interview With Dan Rather will premiere with chart-topping rock legend Huey Lewis on Wednesday, April 15 at 8 pm. ET/ 5 p.m. PT.

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Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter for his new book Contacting the Band

Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter for his new book Contacting the Band

Posted February 29, 2020 at 10:53 am | No comments

I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance my new book, Contacting the Band. It will feature selected contact sheets of the photos I took of The Band in the late Sixties for their first two albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band. It will allow fans of The Band a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the process and frame by frame progression of these landmark photo shoots

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Ana Popovic Announces 20th U.S. & Europe Anniversary Tour Starting February 19, 2020!

Ana Popovic Announces 20th U.S. & Europe Anniversary Tour Starting February 19, 2020!

Posted February 13, 2020 at 9:54 am | No comments

Ana Popovic has announced the initial sixty confirmed appearances she’ll make this year across The United States and Europe as she celebrates her 20th anniversary. There will be dozens of additional performances announced as they are confirmed in the coming weeks.

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Bruce Cockburn Announces 50Th Anniversary Shows

Bruce Cockburn Announces 50Th Anniversary Shows

Posted February 4, 2020 at 5:04 am | No comments

Is it really fifty years ago that Bruce Cockburn’s first album came out? Indeed it is. His eponymous titled album, which included “Going to the Country” and “Musical Friends,” was released on April 7, 1970. Coincidently, it was also the first album released by True North records.

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Guitar International Publisher Rick Landers Back on Stage and in the Studio!

Guitar International Publisher Rick Landers Back on Stage and in the Studio!

Posted August 5, 2019 at 9:42 am | No comments

Guitar International magazine’s publisher, Rick Landers, ventured back into performing and songwriting recently. Since his early days playing in a downriver Detroit garage band, to basking in the streets of Georgetown and small D.C. clubs, he’s been writing songs and stashing them away for no other reason than to play them as the spirit moved him.

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Clearwater Festival Celebrates Founder Pete Seeger’s 100th Birthday

Clearwater Festival Celebrates Founder Pete Seeger’s 100th Birthday

Posted May 3, 2019 at 1:57 pm | No comments

The Great Hudson River Revival (The Clearwater Festival) is celebrating Pete Seeger 100th birthday today by offering 20% off ticketing for its annual event, returning to Croton-On-Hudson, New York on June 15-16. To cash in on this birthday gift, enter coupon code “Pete100” at https://clearwaterfestival.org (valid through 5/15).

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John McCutcheon Releases Exquisite Tribute Album to Iconic Pete Seeger

John McCutcheon Releases Exquisite Tribute Album to Iconic Pete Seeger

Posted January 10, 2019 at 10:04 am | No comments

The Pete Seeger tribute album for McCutcheon has been a long time coming. The renowned multi-instrumentalist was eleven years old when his mother insisted he watch with her the news reports from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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Neil Young Archives Launches Revolutionary Hi-Res Streaming  APP & Membership Service!

Neil Young Archives Launches Revolutionary Hi-Res Streaming APP & Membership Service!

Posted December 20, 2018 at 5:17 pm | No comments

Neil Young is pleased to announce the official launch of the Neil Young Archives (NYA) revolutionary website and Hi-Res mobile app (available on iPhone now and Android soon) as a membership service. A first-of-its-kind musician’s website that offers the finest audio quality available anywhere online.

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Legendary Woodstock Photographer Elliott Landy’s Gifts for the Holidays!

Legendary Woodstock Photographer Elliott Landy’s Gifts for the Holidays!

Posted December 16, 2018 at 11:24 am | No comments

Legendary music photographer, Elliott Landy, is now offering some of his most iconic photographs to the general public, on sale at his website HERE. What better gift to give yourself or someone you know who’s a music aficionado than one of Landy’s coolest of cool images of Bob Dylan, The Band, The Doors, Joan Baez, Richie Havens and more?

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