KIRSTEN ALLSTAFF Gallowglass Self www.kirstenallstaff.com Flautist Kirsten Allstaff was raised in Scotland and now lives in Ireland, where she co-founded the Online Irish Academy of Music. She honors her pan-Celtic perspective with a new … Continue reading →
ANNA & ELIZABETH Anna and Elizabeth Free Dirt Records www.freedirtrecords.com Multi-instrumentalist and singer Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Appalachian singer Elisabeth LaPrelle have combined to produce a beautifully crafted collection of songs of sorrow, survival and … Continue reading →
JEREMY BASS Winter Bare Self www.jeremybassmusic.com Jeremy Bass, a Brooklyn based songwriter, poet and classically trained guitarist wrote this album during the fierce New York winter of 2013. He was nursing a broken heart. … Continue reading →
HALTADANS EP Haltadans www.haltadans.com Discussions of Shetland Islands fiddling often begin with Aly Bain and proceed to Fiddlers’ Bid, the latter so famed that locals simply call it Da’ Bid. Both Bain and Da’ … Continue reading →
CHARLIE PARR Stumpjumper Red House 283 www.redhouserecords.com Long a part of the spirited Duluth, Minnesota, music scene (Trampled By Turtles, Low), prolific folk blues singer, gripping songwriter and 12-string National resonator steel guitar, Dobro … Continue reading →
ERYNN MARSHALL and CARL JONES Sweet Memories … Never Leave Dittyville 006 www.dittyville.com Georgia-born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carl Jones has been a well-known figure in old time music circles for decades through his … Continue reading →
LEONARD COHEN Can’t Forget Columbia Records www.columbiarecords.com Just months after Leonard Cohen released Popular Problems, with very little warning, as well as the sumptuous three CD + DVD Live In Dublin set, here comes … Continue reading →
FRANK WAKEFIELD and RED ALLEN The WDON Recordings, 1963 Patuxent 258 www.pxrec.com Talk about a time capsule! There are twenty-two performances here from WDON broadcasts in 1963. WDON was an AM station in Wheaton … Continue reading →
MONROE FIELDS with CARL SAUCEMAN and THE GREEN VALLEY BOYS 1950s-60s Broadcasts Patuxent 259 www.pxrec.com Another excellent archival bluegrass release from Patuxent Music! This one spotlights mandolinist/vocalist Monroe Fields with Carl Sauceman and his band the … Continue reading →
Various Artists Guitar Heroes: Making History Stony Plain 1381 www.stonyplainrecords.com Recorded live at the midsummer Vancouver Island Music Festival in 2013, this once-in-a-lifetime gathering features four blues and rockabilly-infused and early rock ‘n’ roll-style Telecaster guitar … Continue reading →
