Guitarist blues master, Tal Naccarato, recently won the Long Island Blues Society’s 2022 Solo/Duo Competition and will soon be headed to Memphis, Tennessee, to show his chops to compete in The Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge. The IBC is scheduled to be held January 24-28, 2023, on the legendary Beale Street.
Two years ago, the duo Peach & Quiet, reached out to the world from their log home on Canada’s West Coast with their debut album, Just Beyond the Shine. In a few short months, that record topped the folk and roots music charts in North America and had airplay around the world. Reviewers raved, calling it “a basket of surprises,” “superb,” “sublime” and “utterly original
Guitar International’s publisher and editor, Rick Landers, and his band Heartland, will be featured on stage and on-line in the number one ranked county in the U.S, Loudoun County, Virginia, and at the county’s premier venue, the Franklin Park Arts Center.
A musical romp of a show of stunningly masterful blues guitar, storytelling and a fine array of vocals by an aficionado of guitar, Toby Walker, at the 37-year old Reston-Herndon Folk Club in Northern Virginia, kept the audience captivated, song after song, story after story. Offering up traditional old blues tunes and more contemporary blues of his own, Walker, plucked, bent and made his Huss & Dalton guitar shimmer with a full bag of tricks, honed over decades of playing the usual and unusual haunts in the States and overseas.
Functioning around introspection, destination and self-validation, Dylan Fraser’s early catalogues finds the Scottish-born artist unpacking his journey from his small town of Bathgate to his newfound reality as an artist with the world at his feet, trying to make sense of the people and situations he’s faced along the way.
Acclaimed singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ethan Daniel Davidson announces a September 30th release date for his new album, Stranger, on Cleveland-based Blue Arrow Records. Stranger is Davidson’s 12th album
Last night at Alexandria, Virginia’s legendary Birchmere Music Hall, Steve Earle and The Dukes rolled out an evening of country roots tangled with an eclectic mix of songs welded together by Earle’s vocals immersed in grit, beautifully crafted songwriting, and his amazing band whose melodic twists and turns, and hot licks “could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch”, in the purloined words of Willie Nelson.
AXS TV gets the fireworks started this July 4TH weekend with the Red, White & Rock! event—an explosive three-day lineup celebrating some of America’s most iconic artists, airing Saturday, July 2 through Monday, July 4. Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Soundgarden, John Fogerty and more!
With songs like “Darkness, Darkness”, “Sunlight”, “Sugarbabe”, “Songird and the Youngblood’s version of “Get Together,” Jesse Colin Young has influenced and shaped the character of American music for over 50 years. Jesse will be touring as an acoustic duo with his daughter Jazzie Young in support of his solo acoustic album, Highway Troubadour, filled with stripped-down versions of such hits as “Darkness, Darkness,” from the Youngbloods’ 1969 album, Elephant Mountain…
Five-decades-running Americana pioneers Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have already played a major role in the preservation and popularity of folk music—their Will The Circle Be Unbroken album series introduced droves of new fans to folk, country, and bluegrass and earned the band multiple Grammy awards—but now, the long-running group have taken on another American institution near and dear to their hearts; the Bob Dylan songbook.
