Zachary Cale
Zachary Cale is a songwriter originally hailing from a tiny town in St.Tammany Parish Louisiana, called Enon. He started writing and recording his own songs in 2002. He has released two full length solo albums "Outlander Sessions" on New World of Sound (2005), "Walking Papers" on All Hands Electric (2008) and one 7" single. In 2007 he started a band called ILLUMINATIONS, who released their debut LP "See-Saw" (2009) on All Hands Electric. His new solo album entitled "Noise of Welcome" is due out in May 2011 on All Hands Electric and in Europe on Adagio 830.
Brian Hyland
Brian was born November 12, 1943, in Brooklyn/Queens, New York City, where his first musical experience ranged from church choir at nine, to clarinet and guitar, to his first local harmony group, the Delfis. In 1959, they cut a demo record and made the rounds of New York City record labels. Finally, with much persistence, after many closed doors, Brian was signed as a solo artist to a management contract, where he cut demos for band leader Sammy Kaye's publishing company. Kapp Records heard a demo and signed Brian at age 16.
Abdi Behravanfar
Abdi Behravanfar(Persian: عبدي بهروانفر) (born 1975) is an Iranian guitar player and he plays harmonica in country blues style with Fleming Khoshghadami. In 2000 he formed a band named Mud Band with 5 other members. They performed 4 concerts in blues rock and folk rock styles. Behravanfar made music for 4 short films,the one called "Gone Far Away" won the prize for the best music in JAVAN festival film in Iran. He also collaborated with Mohsen Namjoo on his Toranj album.
Corb Lund
Cabin Fever is the seventh studio album by Corb Lund. Available worldwide from New West Records. This is Corb's second album to be released in the United States. Said to be "a different sound." Losin’ Lately Gambler, is the 6th album from Corb Lund, Alberta’s acclaimed, alternative country star.
Produced by the noted Nashville drummer and vocalist Harry Stinson (of Marty Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives), this is Lund’s first album on his new record label New West Records.
Lund’s latest series of songs on Losin’ Lately Gambler, features a gallery of subjects drawn from real life.
Henry Thomas
Henry Thomas (1874-1950s?) was a major pre-war country blues singer and musician. Born in Big Sandy, Texas, he began his musical career as an itinerant singer (minstrel), and recorded twenty-three songs from 1927 to 1929. During this time he was a musical hobo who rode the rails across Texas and possibly to the World Fairs in St. Louis and Chicago. Most agree he was the oldest African-American folk artist to produce a significant body of recordings. His projected 1874 birthdate would predate Charley Patton by a good 17 years.
Curtis Eller's American Circus
Angry folk-country-punk-blues, whatever, banjo wielding showman Eller sings dark and ageless tunes.
An excellent and highly intriguing singer/songwriter who is based in New York City, Curtis Eller has successfully brought a variety of influences to his unorthodox folk-rock vision. The banjo-playing Eller's work has an old-time feel, drawing on an abundance of direct or indirect influences from the '20s, '30s, and '40s (including country singer Jimmie Rodgers, cowboy icon Gene Autry, and Mississippi Delta bluesman Robert Johnson).
Andy Sharrocks & The Smokin' Jackets
Andy Sharrocks was born in Manchester and started playing serious music in punk band Accident On The East Lancs. They released 2 singles We Want It Legalised/Tell Me What Ya Mean and Back End Of Nowhere/Rat Race, and an album Shotguns And Hotshots. One journalist recently suggested The Strokes should record Tell Me What Ya Mean.
On his first solo album Walking In Familiar Footsteps, Andy had no other than ex Rolling Stone Mick Taylor guesting on guitar and Paul Jones from The Blues Band and radio 2 fame guesting on blues harp, with Jeff and Tommy Vee, Bobby Vee's sons on bass and drums.
Rag Mama Rag
sleepy eyes nelson
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From the Devil’s Ruin Records website Drinking, gambling, sinning, and dying are not only the subjects of Dirty With the Blues, but are the life of Sleepy Eyes Nelson. Ever the recluse, Sleepy recorded the tracks compiled in the album in the hills of Scotland all alone. In the hills of Eurpoe the tapes sat for years until Sleepy's brohter, JB heard them and realized the potential for the music. After a brief release on his own label, JB convinced Sleepy to permit a wider release for the album.