The Punch Brothers: Phosphorescent Blues the fourth album from the Bluegrass band featuring Chris Thile (mandolin), Gabe Witcher (fiddle/violin), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar), and Paul Kowert (bass). THE PHOSPHORESCENT BLUES was produced by T Bone Burnett. The band chose Burnett after working with him numerous times. most recently on the soundtrack for the Joel and Ethan Coen film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and the related Town Hall/Showtime concert ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TIME.
The Lone Bellow: Then Came The Morningthe second album by the Southern-born, Brooklyn-based indie-folk trio, The Lone Bellow, opens with a crest of churchly piano, a patter of drums, and a fanfare of voices harmonizing like a sunrise. It’s a powerful introduction, enormous and overwhelming, as Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, and Kanene Pipkin testify mightily to life’s great struggles and joys, heralding the morning that dispels the dark night: ”Then came the morning! It was bright, like the light that you kept from your smile!” Working with producer Aaron Dressner of the National, the Lone Bellow has created a sound that mixes folk sincerity, gospel fervor, even heavy metal thunder, but the heart of the band is harmony: three voices united in a lone bellow.
Gov’t Mule & John Scofield : Sco-MuleFans of both artists and their respective genres will finally be able to get their hands and ears on a very special release: the long-awaited SCO-MULE album. In late September of 1999, John Scofield teamed with Gov’t Mule, then featuring original bass player the late Allen Woody, along with keyboardist Dr. Dan Matrazzo, in Georgia for two legendary shows of mind-bending live prowess, featuring material ranging from Mule and Scofield original compositions, to James Brown covers and songs made legendary by John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. No audience or soundboard bootleg recordings of these shows exist. But now, for the first time, fans can experience the Sco-Mule mystique first- hand in album form, newly mixed and mastered. This 2.5 hour all-instrumental release is a jazz romp laced with rock, soul & funk
Bettye Lavette: WorthyBettye LaVette is a true legend with a musical career spanning over 50 years, she is now rightly recognized as one of the finest vocalists and one of the great interpreters of song. In Bettye’s amazing career she has performed for Barack Obama at his 2009 Presidential inauguration, (duetting with Jon Bon Jovi) and sang a moving interpretation of “”Love Reign O’er Me”” at the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to The Who (which brought Pete Townshend to tears and stunned Roger Daltrey). Her discography spans five decades, but it is within the past decade that she has finally been recognized as one of America’s finest vocal talents. In 2005 she recorded the album “”I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise””, which was produced by Grammy nominated producer Joe Henry, (hailed as one of the best albums of the year by many critics). Joe Henry now reflects; “”I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise confirmed Bettye’s standing as a soul and blues singer nearly without peer, and evidenced for many what had for so long been hidden in plain sight. Two more fine albums followed, both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards: “”The Scene Of The Crime”” in 2007 and “”Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook””in 2010. Now, after almost a decade, the legend that is Bettye LaVette has teamed up with producer Joe Henry once again and the result is a stunning new album, “”Worthy””, featuring 11 songs composed by writers such as Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Mickey Newbury, Beth Nielsen Chapman & Mary Gauthier(who wrote the album title track) and Joe Henry among others. As Joe Henry states; “”With every song on “”Worthy””, Bettye finds the thread that first will unravel it. Then she stitches it all back together until it fits her taut frame and fierce stride, until it bends to meet her; until each song’s story is somehow, miraculously, telling her own””. “”Worthy”” is a supreme achievement from a uniquely gifted performer.
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors: MedicineFor Nashville based, Memphis born Drew Holcomb, ”music is medicine” and it seems only fitting that along with his band The Neighbors – wife Ellie (vocals, guitar), Nathan Dugger (guitar, keys) and Rick Brinsfield (bass) – the group celebrates a decade long career with the release of their 2014 full-length studio album MEDICINE via his own imprint Magnolia Music. Recorded over eight days at Joe Pisapia’s Middletree Studios in East Nashville, the twelve song album was co-produced by Pisapia (Ben Folds, KD Lang, Guster, Josh Rouse) and the band and tackles issues of everyday life including loyalty, hardship, marriage, friendship, alienation and faith.
Papa Roach : F.E.A.R.Papa Roach has sold over 20 million albums internationally, is celebrating 20 years as a band and 15 years since their Multi-platinum release, INFEST. Years later the band keeps delivering hits, as their previous album THE CONNECTION (2012) delivered three massive active rock radio singles. The band has had four number one Rock Hits, one number one Alternative hit, and twelve top ten Rock Hits.
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The sun hits the back of my neck
Through a crack in the window shade
I blow it off
I blow it off
’cause I keep outside
In the eyes and ears
Of friends I’ve never met
I blow it off
I blow it offThere’s nothin’ to say
That couldn’t just as well be sent
I’ve got an American share
Of 21st century stress
~the Punch Brothers
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