Jamie Anderson Drive All Night Bella Books 978-1-59493-399-8 www.bellabooks.com Inordinately talented, lesbian folk comic musician and occasional belly dancer, Jamie Anderson has been a traveling performer for the past twenty-plus years (as well as … Continue reading →
Dean Alger The Original Guitar Hero And the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music & Civil Rights University of North Texas Press ISBN: 978-1574415469 www.untpress.unt.edu This long overdue, deeply researched biography deals with the … Continue reading →
Ernest Ranglin and Avila Bless Up Avila Street www.avilastreetrecords.com A vividly enchanting, genre-bending 16-song project (eleven new Ranglin tunes among them) from the newly energized ska and reggae master guitarist – whose signature, muted upstroke … Continue reading →
Flaco Jiménez and Tomás Ortiz Together Arhoolie 543 www.arhoolie.com Very few performers of Tejano and conjunto music have garnered the level of critical kudos that ace accordionist Flaco Jimenez has enjoyed over the course … Continue reading →
Eddie Cotton Here I Come DeChamp 114 www.eddiecottonjr.com A minister’s son from Clinton, Mississippi, Eddie Cotton Jr. grew up playing guitar and singing gospel songs in his father’s church (where he eventually became Minister … Continue reading →
Rick Shea Sweet Bernadine Tres Pescadores www.rickshea.com Folk-styled troubadour Rick Shea grew up in San Bernadino, an old Southern California railroad town, and cut his teeth in the truck-stop bars and honky-tonks there, honing … Continue reading →
STEVE GILLETTE and CINDY MANGSEN Berrymania Compass Rose www.compassrosemusic.com Marvelous vocalists and acoustic multi-instrumentalists Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen have spent a lot of time driving around the country for the last two decades … Continue reading →
WOODY GUTHRIE American Radical Patriot Rounder www.rounder.com Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie, probably the most prominent single figure in American folk music, was born on Bastille Day, 1912, and before his early death in 1967 … Continue reading →
DAVID NEWBOULD Tennessee Newbould, David www.davidnewbould.com It took two years and an 850-mile move from Austin to Nashville for singer-songwriter Newbould to assemble his newest album, Tennessee, composed of a dozen naturalistic, detail-packed songs … Continue reading →
EDEN & JOHN’S EAST RIVER STRING BAND Take A Look At That Baby East River String Band www.eastriverstringband.com Helmed by intrepid guitarist, mandolinist, vocalist and dedicated record collector John Heneghan along with kazoo, resonator ukulele … Continue reading →
