DWIGHT DEVANE and BLAINE WAIDE Drop On Down In Florida Dust-to-Digital 24 www.dust-digital.com In 1981, the Florida Folklife Program released a double-disc, 27 track LP, highlighting African American music traditions, that was based on … Continue reading →
THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Carry Me Home Dustbowl Revival www.dustbowlrevival.com Expanding steadily from a string band fronted by lead singer and songwriter/arranger Zach Lupetin that began by playing up and down the West Coast a … Continue reading →
HARRY BELAFONTE Sing Your Song: The Music Sony 93951 www.sonymusic.com This sixteen-track compilation features some of the multi-talented veteran’s most venerated recordings, from his own Mississippi riverboat-themed tale of “Mark Twain” to a reflective … Continue reading →
DIUNNA GREENLEAF Trying To Hold On Blue Mercy 930 www.diunna.com This fourteen track project is ex-gospel singer Diunna Greenleaf’s stunning, originals-studded follow-up to her 2007 Cotton Field To Coffee House masterpiece. Accompanied by a … Continue reading →
ERNEST TROOST Live at McCabe’s Travelin’ Shoes 1003 www.ernesttroost.com Troost, 2009 Kerrville New Folk competition winner, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and particularly fluid guitarist is also an Emmy Award-winning composer for film and television which, … Continue reading →
TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON Steamboat In A Cornfield Squirrel 1056 www.truckstophoneymoon.com/ Vocalists, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Katie Euliss and Mike West borrowed the title of their latest project from a true-to-life children’s book by the late folk, … Continue reading →
BETH McKEE Next To Nowhere Swamp Girl 2 www.bethmckee.com Mississippi native and former member of the New Orleans-based band Evangeline, singer-songwriter (and occasional keyboardist)Beth McKee’s latest album follows I’m That Way, her critically heralded … Continue reading →
GUY DAVIS The Adventures Of Fishy Waters: In Bed With The Blues Smokeydoke www.guydavis.com This “audio play” project marks the disc debut of a one-man production that singer-songwriter Guy Davis has performed on and off … Continue reading →
DAVID PHILIPS The Rooftop Recordings Black & Tan 037 www.black-and-tan.com Born and raised in the United Kingdom, singer-songwriter and guitarist Philips moved to Barcelona, Spain at age 24 and has lately released two solo … Continue reading →
THE BAND COURTBOUILLON The Band Courtbouillon Valcour 0016 www.valcourrecords.com It doesn’t get much better than this for fans of that dance music-oriented Cajun sound that emerged from the steamy swamplands of South West Louisiana (one … Continue reading →
