Brooklyn Americana band Yarn’s new music on Born, Blessed, Grateful, & Alive reverberates with echoes of past classic rock and country from the 1970s and 1980s. By Steve Horowitz Born, Blessed, Grateful, & Alive is Yarn’s first studio album in eight years. The new music reverberates with echoes of past classic rock and country from the 1970s and […]
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NO DEPRESSION Reviews Yarn’s ‘Born, Blessed, Grateful & Alive’ Yarn’s latest, Born, Blessed, Grateful & Alive, opens with grand, sweeping blues rock and an imperative: get off that screen and join the party. The music, the message to “Turn Off the News,” neither are all that radical, but that’s not the point. It feels good —
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The Indigo Girls joined the host of Southern Living Magazine‘s Biscuits & Jam podcast to talk about their latest projects – a documentary and a rom-com, their relationship with the South, their passion for music and how they’ve endured being openly gay artists in the South and music industry. Listen to the full podcast here
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Singer Chris Smither sat down with NPR’s Don Gonyea to talk about his latest release “All About the Bones”. DON GONYEA, HOST: Chris Smither learned to play music in New Orleans on his mother’s ukulele. He loved the blues as a kid, but he started his career as a folk artist in Cambridge, Mass., in
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The folk-blues stalwart Chris Smither has been contemplating mortality throughout his decades of songwriting; at 80, he’s more convincing than ever. “All About the Bones,” a modal blues with saxophone joining Smither’s foot-tapping and fingerpicked guitar, pays tribute to bone anatomy — “Some will make you stronger/Others make you tall” — along with the gruff
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Is it “starting over” or is it “starting fresh?” Either way, it can be daunting: a blank canvas, a dream unrealized, turning the page to a new chapter, maybe throwing away all your notes and starting a whole new book. There comes a time after we experience challenges when turning a new leaf could grow
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Catch the folk icons performing there new single, “What We Wanna Be” from the musical film, Glitter & Doom May 8, 2024: Folk icons Indigo Girls will be live Wednesday, May 8, on Late Night With Seth Meyers; the show broadcasts on NBC affiliates at 12:35 AM EDT and will be archived online. The duo
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THE NC-VIA NYC BAND RETURNS WIT BORN, BLESSED, GRATEFUL & ALIVE “effortlessly blends Americana, country-rock, and a feel-good funk groove that keeps everything bouncing along with a jubilant feeling” — GLIDE Nashville, TN: Yarn, headed by songwriter Blake Christiana, is back with a new album, Born, Blessed, Grateful, & Alive, out July 26 via Symphonic Distribution.
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Alt-rock trailblazer Matthew Sweet is releasing an archival live record of one of his most fabled performances — a July 4, 1993 show at Chicago’s Grant Park. Live at Grant Park Chicago July 4, 1993 – available today on all streaming services. Originally recorded by Metro Mobile Recording for Chicago radio station WXRT, the blistering
Lindsay Lou also appearing on NPR Mountain Stage & PBS The Cavern Sessions plus, new tour and festival dates. “a confident 11-song document that combines Americana, folk, indie-soul, and Lou’s brand of progressive bluegrass.” —Rolling Stone “Lindsay Lou takes listeners beyond a creative journey – it’s more like a long, strange, and satisfying trip, where her
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