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“I’m writing and performing the stories of my life—some truth, some lies, but all real American music,” says the expressive Nashville, TN-based singer-songwriter Chad. “I want people to come away from my shows thinking this a roots rock guy that plays with the energy of a punk rock band.” That’s the edge fans can expect […]

Charlie Hunter is an American guitarist, composer and bandleader.  He is widely considered the authority on the seven and eight string guitar on which he simultaneously plays bass lines, chords and melodies. Lucy Woodward was born in London and spent her childhood in New York and Holland.  She is the daughter of two classical musicians; […]

Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970) is an Irish songwriter, actor, vocalist and guitarist for Irish group The Frames, and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season, as well as being a solo artist. He is known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA-winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in […]

Warren Haynes (born April 6, 1960) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Haynes is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov’t Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey Betts Band. […]

Combining funky, groove-laden soul with handcrafted acoustic folk-rock, Ben Harper enjoyed cult status during the course of the ’90s before gaining wider attention toward the decade’s end. As a young California artist, he drew his influences from classic singer/songwriters, blues revivalists, guitar slingers, and jam bands like Blues Traveler and Phish, which meant he was […]

A singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter with a rich pedigree, Amy Helm was a veteran performer with years of recording and touring experience under her belt before she first stepped forward as a solo artist while in her forties. Amy Helm was born in Woodstock, New York on December 3, 1970; her father was Levon Helm, […]

THE NEW ALBUM is BOO HISS  Heavily influenced by classic garage rock bands like The Stooges, Big Star, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and The Kinks, The Howling Tongues, featuring Davey Rockett (Vocals), Nick Magliochetti (Guitars), Thomas Wainwright (Keys), Brandon Witcher (Bass), and drummer Tylor James, demoed 30 songs at their home studio before holing up at […]

From the sunny palm trees in Los Angeles, to life on the road, Beth Hart has fought for survival, song by song, every step of the way. This 40-something, passionate blues rocker charted in 1999 with her second album’s single, “L.A. Song (Out Of This Town).” It climbed into the top five on the US […]

While at art school in London around 1972, Robyn Hitchcock was a member of the college band the Beetles. He later moved to Cambridge, did some busking and joined a series of local bands: B.B. Blackberry and the Swelterettes, the Worst Fears, and Maureen and the Meatpackers. He gave up that fabulousness to join his next […]

Born in the Bronx, New York, Alynda Segarra leads Hurray for the Riff Raff, an American folk-blues and Americana band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Segarra’s neighborhood life helped her develop an early appreciation for doo-wop and Motown. Segarra’s Puerto Rican heritage informs her music. Although her mother was a New York City Deputy Mayor, Alynda […]