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Jack the Radio Premiere Video “Getting Good” featuring Lydia Loveless

Jack the Radio Premiere Video “Getting Good” featuring Lydia Loveless

Posted July 1, 2020 at 11:58 am | No comments

Raleigh, North Carolina, roots-rockers Jack the Radio are premiering their lyric video for “Getting Good”, featuring Lydia Loveless today with Cowboys And Indians Magazine – watch it HERE.  The video for the song, a country tongue-in-cheek tale about the bright side of failure, features behind the scenes footage from the recording studio.

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Joe Bonamassa Releases “When One Door Opens” Single from His Abbey Road Studio Recordings

Joe Bonamassa Releases “When One Door Opens” Single from His Abbey Road Studio Recordings

Posted July 1, 2020 at 5:11 am | No comments

Today, blues icon Joe Bonamassa shares perhaps his most monumental rock soundscape to date, with the intricate ballad titled “When One Door Opens” on J&R Adventures. The track was co-written with long-time producer Kevin Shirley and songwriter Pete Brown, known for his many collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce.

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The Immediate Family to Return to Live Performance with Live-Streamed Gigs on June 26 and 27

The Immediate Family to Return to Live Performance with Live-Streamed Gigs on June 26 and 27

Posted June 22, 2020 at 8:54 pm | No comments

Quarto Valley Records recording artists The Immediate Family, a rock & roll band composed of longtime friends and legendary musicians Danny Kortchmar (guitar and vocals), Waddy Wachtel (guitar and vocals), Leland Sklar (bass), Russ Kunkel (drums) and Steve Postell (guitar and vocals), are making their return to live performance for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis

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We Are Family Foundation Announces “Youth to the Front” Fund With Nile Rodgers

We Are Family Foundation Announces “Youth to the Front” Fund With Nile Rodgers

Posted June 17, 2020 at 7:17 pm | No comments

We Are Family Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded by legendary musician Nile Rodgers and is dedicated to the visions of a global family by creating programs that promote cultural diversity while nurturing and mentoring the vision, talents and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world.

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Dion Releases “Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America) with Paul Simon

Dion Releases “Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America) with Paul Simon

Posted May 29, 2020 at 2:25 pm | No comments

Dion’s new album, Blues With Friends, is released by KTBA Records on Friday 5th June and is available for Pre-Order worldwide at: KTBArecords.com Dion releases his sixth single “Song For Sam Cooke (Here In America)” with Paul Simon today. The single is taken from his upcoming album ‘Blues With Friends’ released on Friday 5thJune via Keeping The Blues Alive Records.

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Folk Musician & Storyteller John McCutcheon  Releases 41st Album Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine

Folk Musician & Storyteller John McCutcheon Releases 41st Album Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine

Posted May 28, 2020 at 8:47 pm | No comments

“This is not the album I’d planned to do this year!” protests McCutcheon.  Following his last release, To Everyone In All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger, in honor of the folk icon’s 100th birthday, he had stockpiled over 30 new songs as a pool for a new album of McCutcheon originals.  “But that pesky virus kind of put a kink in the notion of gathering a bunch of my pals and going into a windowless recording studio for days on end.  I mean I love these folks, but…”

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Remembering A Beautiful Moment With Bob Dylan: The Story Behind the Photo Session

Remembering A Beautiful Moment With Bob Dylan: The Story Behind the Photo Session

Posted May 25, 2020 at 9:22 pm | No comments

In early 1969 Bob Dylan called and asked me to take a picture for the back of his new album, Nashville Skyline. He had the front cover already picked out—a picture of the skyline of Nashville, where he had recorded the album.One afternoon, I went over to his place. As we left the house, he grabbed a hat, and asked, “Do you think we could use this?” I had no idea if it would be good or not, so I told him “Take it, and we’ll see.”

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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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The Immediate Family’s Debut Single “Cruel Twist” Coming On Quarto Valley Records

The Immediate Family’s Debut Single “Cruel Twist” Coming On Quarto Valley Records

Posted May 14, 2020 at 11:40 am | No comments

The Immediate Family (the modern iteration of a legendary studio ensemble known as “The Section”) is a rock and roll band composed of four of the most recorded, respected and sought-after players in modern music: Danny Kortchmar (guitar and vocals), Waddy Wachtel (guitar and vocals), Leland Sklar (bass), Russ Kunkel (drums) and the addition of prominent touring, session guitarist and songwriter Steve Postell (guitar and vocals).

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Dan Rather Interviews Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on AXS-TV Wednesday, May 13

Dan Rather Interviews Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on AXS-TV Wednesday, May 13

Posted May 11, 2020 at 7:47 pm | No comments

The Big Interview is hosted and conducted by newsman Dan Rather, who is a respected a journalist and anchor that anchored CBS Evening News for 24 years.  Some of the recent interviews he’s conducted for The Big Interview are Robbie Robertson, Debbie Harry, the Eagles’ Don Felder, and Dolly Parton

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