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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Posted May 25, 2020 at 10:16 pm | No comments
Moving beyond being type cast as a percussionist, Eric Selby, a first call Northern Virginian session player pushed the envelope with his debut album, Do Baby (Soul Stew Records – 2020), taking on a heavy workload of writing the songs, handling guitar and percussion, singing vocals and helping dial in the sound and the emotional heft of the project, alongside DC’s master producer, Marco Delmar (Recording Arts).
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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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Posted May 22, 2020 at 10:10 am | No comments
Pink Floyd launched a brand-new daily evolving playlist today, Friday, May 22, 2020. Entitled ‘Syd, Roger, Richard, Nick and David – An Evolving Pink Floyd Playlist’, this new and exciting way to rediscover and immerse in Pink Floyd’s music
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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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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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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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Posted May 7, 2020 at 4:53 pm | No comments
Roaming Smith’s albums, listening to his broad spectrum of songs with their various styles, his work isn’t readily pigeon-holed into a single genre. He colors outside the lines with an eclectic mix of tracks that sometimes shuffle along Cajun style, pump it up with ’80s new wave pop, enrich us with storied accounts that are bound in the new world of Americana-folk
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Posted May 4, 2020 at 2:11 pm | No comments
From his whirlwind fingerpicking to flamenco percussion and rhythms to a signature rock and roll sound, David Broza’s charismatic and energetic performances have delighted audiences throughout the world.
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Posted May 3, 2020 at 6:51 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)
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