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Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release ‘The 1974 Live Recordings’ on Friday, September 20, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s return to touring that year. Featuring all professionally recorded shows from the artist’s 1974 performances backed by The Band, the collection will be available as a deluxe box set across 27 CDs.
“I just feel that music and song can be so much more than entertainment, and maybe that’s really what it’s supposed to be about.”
Mary Gauthier is a very unique contemporary artist whose music has proven what she says in her performances, her recordings, and placements of her music in the soundtracks of TV shows like ‘Yellowstone’ on Paramount Plus, ABC’s ‘Nashville’, Masterpiece Theatre’s ‘Case Histories,’ Showtime’s ‘Banshee,’ and HBO’s ‘Injustice.’
‘Earthbound’ features 11 originals penned by founding member Django Haskins, who’s also an ongoing member of a troupe (organized by Big Star drummer Jody Stephens) touring in tribute to Big Star.
Get a taste of what can be expected on the full remixed collection with the digital release of “Kiss Money.” The 50th anniversary reissue is slated for release on CD and vinyl on September 27 and digitally on October 31.
Bobby Rush’s praise for DeLia underscores the crucial role he provides for such a unique legacy artist. “His insight and what he brings to the table convinced me he was the right kind of partner I needed. I’ve gone through many managers and labels in my career, Jeff is one of the first guys to help me reach my goals,”
Shemekia Copeland’s new album ‘Blame It On Eve,’ out now via Alligator Records, sustains a level high enough to which other contemporary blues albums struggle to reach. The list of musicians who sat in is a who’s who of talented headliners in their own right: Americana superstar Alejandro Escovedo, guitarists Luther Dickinson and Charlie Hunter, lap steel master Jerry Douglas, and young sacred steel wizard DaShawn.
Why not tour together and share the stage playing a Tab song and then an Anders song back and forth all night? Joining the two guitar/songwriters was Terence Higgins on drums and Corey Duplechin on bass, rounding out a killer band that left the crowd in awe. JD Simo opened the show with some brilliant guitar work!
Epiphone, in partnership with Gibson Custom and the Hendrix family, is proud to introduce the Jimi Hendrix™ “Love Drops” Flying V™, an Inspired by Gibson Custom recreation of a guitar that Jimi customized and played extensively from 1967-1969.
Intentionally or unintentionally, predictably or unpredictably, the folk revival of the 1960s gave way to the era of the singer/songwriter era of the 1970s. If any one artist served as a bridge between the two events it would be Joni Mitchell.
“It’s a bucket list thing,” says Curtis Salgado about playing the King Biscuit Blues Festival for the first time this year. He headlines the main stage Friday night, October 11th. Three-time Grammy winner and Saturday night headliner Bobby Rush also will be on stage with me as well as Anson Funderburgh.