Old Crow’s a ‘pusher’: Get hooked on Americana roots music

No band better illustrates the rising popularity of American roots music among both old and young audiences more than Nashville’s Old Crow Medicine Show.
The band’s new CD Tennessee Pusher (Nettwerk) is being universally praised as perhaps the most ambitious and arresting work they’ve done over their decade-long tenure.
And while Old Crow Medicine Show makes regular [...]

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Howlin Wolf’s Rockin’ the Blues: Live in Germany 1964 to be released in the US by Acrobat Music

November 1964 American Folk Blues tour concert featured musicians Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Willie Dixon and Clifton James
NEW YORK, N.Y. — In the pantheon of blues, Howlin’ Wolf was in a category of his own. At 6’3” and 275 pounds, he had a voice that resonated with menace — not every bluesman could make a [...]

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US Americana Songwriter Tokyo Rosenthal Releases New CD

Americana Songwriter Tokyo Rosenthal Sets Sights On New CD and Tour
10/2/08 - Chapel Hill, NC - North Carolina-based Americana songwriter, performer and former boxer Tokyo Rosenthal, who in fact isn’t Japanese but as American as you can get, is gearing up for the release of his latest CD ‘Love Won Out’. Produced by Tokyo with [...]

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Congratulations to Roger Wallace

We just heard that one of our favorite people was honored by the Austin 360 as the #1 country singer in Austin. Someone there knows their country music!
Congratulations Roger!
Don’t know Roger? You’re missing out. Here’s the first step to discovery with a link to TCB’s interview with the man. Follow that up with catching a live [...]

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Wade Bowen’s If We Ever Make It Home” available now

WADE BOWEN’S THIRD
STUDIO ALBUM
“IF WE EVER MAKE IT HOME”
HITS STORES TODAY
Lead Single “You Had Me At My Best”
Burns Up Chart To #3
NASHVILLE, TENN (September 30, 2008) - Texas troubadour Wade Bowen releases his first studio album in almost three years today with “If We Ever Make It Home,” on Texas-based independent label Sustain Records (distributed [...]

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Owen Temple Travels Two Thousand Miles

New CD Propels Texas Singer Beyond The Lone Star State
Records Album With Legendary Producer Lloyd Maines
Nashville, Tenn.—With grit and a grin, Texas-based singer/songwriter Owen Temple comes barreling out of the Lone Star state with his new album Two Thousand Miles. The record, produced by famed Texasmusic legend Lloyd Maines (Dixie Chicks, Terri Hendrix, Terry Allen), [...]

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Shooter Jennings on LENO Jan 23/08

NASHVILLE, TENN - (Jan. 15, 2008) - Singer/songwriter Shooter Jennings will continue making national media appearances in support of his third studio album THE WOLF with his debut performance of the title track on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno next Wednesday, January 23.  
Jennings was also featured in the Style Section of the Sunday [...]

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Video of the Week - Todd Snider: You Got Away With It

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Classic Video of the Day

You’ll have to click here to see it on youtube as Sony has disabled embedding (grrrr!) but its well worth the extra click -
Vern Godsin - That Just About Does It

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Will Kimbrough - Singer-songwriter Wears Many Musical Hats

http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/34/will-kimbrough
By Brian Baker

Kimbrough - He’s a musician, not a policy-maker.
Of all the syndromes that could potentially afflict Will Kimbrough, lack of ambition is clearly not among them. After all, one doesn’t nab the Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year Award (which he won three years ago) by sitting at home waiting for the phone [...]

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