Video Premiere: Deep Dark Woods, Rodney Crowell - Live from the Americana Music Convention
Each year, the Americana Music Association arrives in Nashville, Tenn. to celebrate the genre and congratulate the accomplishments of its artists. Vanguard Records and Sugar Hill Records had several of their artists sit for a series of intimate performances at Minutia Studios between t. Catch two clips from their series exclusively in the players below. The first is with Deep Dark Woods, a Canadian band that charmed Paste back at Newport Folk Festival with their alt-country sound. The second comes from Rodney Crowell, the Grammy Award-winning musician who has produced and written tracks on several hit records for other artists... read more
Found in: Featured VideosVarious Artists: Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein
A heartfelt homage to ageless songs On Twistable, Turnable Man, a hodgepodge of artists come forth to honor Shel Silverstein’s plaintive country songs and wacky children’s poetry with an affectionate, reverent tribute. The homage was co-produced by Bobby Bare Sr., one of Silverstein’s closest collaborators, along with his son, Bobby Bare Jr. The pair gives Twistable, Turnable Man an invaluable dichotomy of old and new, pairing artists like Dr. Dog alongside Ray Price to illustrate the enduring nature of Silverstein’s words. Silverstein’s language—sometimes whimsical, sometimes poignant, often both—is honored through the smoky drawls of Sarah Jarosz, the freewheeling lilt of... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsThe Infamous Stringdusters: Things that Fly
Tennessee boys string you along Dusting is a gentle thing involving feathers and tiny particles floating woozily in shafts of sunlight, but that visual has no place in the music of The Infamous Stringdusters. What this Nashville sextet offers is more of a string band assault, conjuring images of sweatbeads and calloused fingertips.... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsBlack Prairie: Feast of the Hunters’ Moon
Instrumental quintet bridges continents Combining the forces of Jenny Conlee, Chris Funk and Nate Query of The Decemberists with folk musicians Annalisa Tornfelt and Jon Neufeld, Portland’s Black Prairie crafts an eclectic mix of traditional bluegrass and eastern European sounds. Though peppered with Tornfelt’s wispy vocals, this debut album is primarily instrumental, shifting between twangy folk (“Atrocity at Celilo Falls”), fiddle-heavy bluegrass (“Back Alley,” “Annie McGuire”) and gypsy swoon, full of weeping strings and bouncy accordions (“A Prairie Musette,” “Tango Oscuro”). The melodic ebb and flow through time and space is full of surprises—just when you’ve settled into the rootsy... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsDecemberists Side Project Black Prairie Preps Debut Album for Sugar Hill
If the godfather of ambient (Brian Eno), a ’60s country-rock guitarist (Clarence White), and one of the most renowned composers of all time (Ennio Morricone) ever had the chance to make music together, they may end up sounding like the latest act to sign onto Sugar Hill Records.... read more
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