"A mere two years after their initial meeting as camp counselors, Bearfoot earned one of roots music’s most prestigious awards – Telluride Bluegrass Band Champions – an honor they share with artists like Dixie Chicks and Nickel Creek. Now, after years of national touring at top theaters and festivals, Bearfoot joins these iconic pop peers, with the broad horizon of the Americana frontier in their souls. Bearfoot is deeply American music.
"Half boogie piano, half Memphis soul, plus another half of folky swing . . .The trick that JT & The Clouds pull off is putting soul into the white roots sound, and being as talented at both sides of the equation." (Americana UK)
Mike Cullen, an Edinburgh University graduate, has achieved great success as a writer for the theatre, winning numerous awards, seeing his plays staged all over the world, nominated as the Lloyds playwright of the year, watching one of his plays succeed in the west end of London. (Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this man is completely up himself). Mike has also had fantastic success as a television writer in the uk, writing everything from Hornblower to Touching Evil, Taggart to Primeval, seeing his series Donovan receive a Bafta nomination...
Since 2006 his songs have been recorded by the band Streebeck and released on albums 'Without A Baedeker', 'Catch As Catch Can' and 'The Peacock'. Lawrence is an accomplished song writer and live artist performing alongside artists from Xavier Rudd to David Essex, Benjamin Francis Leftwich to Reef. His music has been playlisted on national radio, featured on surf films and performed at theatres and venues throughout the UK.
MRC publishes all of the compositions written by Lawrence Mackrell.
Allison Moorer (born June 21, 1972 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American alternative country singer and the younger sister of Shelby Lynne. Wed to Steve Earle, Allison Moorer plays guitar, composes her own songs, and writes her own lyrics. Her music can be compared to that of Catherine Irwin and Lucinda Williams.
Kelly Joe Phelps (born 5 October 1959, Sumner, Washington) is an American musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz. Kelly Joe Phelps grew up in Sumner, Washington, a blue-collar and farming town. He learned country and folk songs, as well as drums and piano, from his father. He began playing guitar at 12. Phelps concentrated on free jazz and took his cues from musicians like Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. He spent 10 years playing jazz, mostly as a bass player.
Huddie Ledbetter (23 January 1888-6 December 1949) was a leading American blues singer and guitarist. His songbook contained a large number of standard folk tunes, most adapted from previous sources. Though many of his posthumous releases list him as "Leadbelly," he himself spelled it "Lead Belly." This is also the usage on most of his original records, tombstone, as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation.
THIS WOULD BE ME!
Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.