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Rhiannon Giddens performed this past weekend at the return of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park with 500,000 audience members in attendance! She is pictured here after her guest appearance with Marcus Mumford and Elvis Costello. For more information, go to Rhiannon Giddens’ artist page. Read more
The 12-track bilingual album includes brand new songs as well as tracks from Morales’ celebrated EPs released earlier this year. She Ought To Be King features collaborations with Americana icon Rodney Crowell, Santana co-founder Gregg Rolie, Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo, and includes Tim Lefebvre, Rachel Eckroth, Elizabeth Goodfellow, Ephraim Owens, and Raul Pacheco. The album Read more
Algiers return with new track ‘Bite Back’, featuring billy woods and Backxwash. Watch the Murat Gökmen directed video HERE. Born in the band’s hometown of Atlanta, the six-minute opus sees Algiers frontperson Franklin James Fisher trading verses with contemporary hip hop innovators Backxwash, aka Montreal Zambian-Canadian rapper & producer Ashanti Mutinta, and NYC rapper and Read more
The Indie Record Store exclusive “Wild Turkey” B/W “Firewater” is out today! In early August of 2021, singer and songwriter Amythyst Kiah booked a session at The Earnest Tube, a studio in Bristol, Virginia that eschews modern technology and specializes in live, direct-to-disc recordings. Today, her new single – a riveting solo recording of “Wild Turkey” b/w Read more | Check out the full press release here
Internationally renowned pianist/vocalist Eliane Elias transports you to Quietude (Candid Records) out on October 14, 2022 qui·e·tude – a state of stillness, calmness, and quiet in a person or place (September 6, 2022) Hot off her 2022 GRAMMY® win for Best Latin Jazz Album for Mirror Mirror internationally celebrated virtuoso pianist, alluring vocalist, composer and arranger Eliane Read more
Concerted Efforts is happy to announce that The Natural Lines, the artist previously recorded as Matt Pond PA, will be joining our roster! The band’s debut First Five EP will be released on October 14 ahead of a new album due out in early 2023 (pre-order). In anticipation of the upcoming release, the band is Read more
Nora Brown has released her new album, “Long Time To Be Gone”. Listen to it here! For more information go to Nora Brown’s artist page. Read more | Check out the brand new album here
Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and more CE artists will all be hitting the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2022 stage. Check out the full lineup here! Read more | Read the full article here
Booker T. Jones will be inducted into The Memphis Music Hall Of Fame at the Cannon Center in Memphis on September 15 honoring him as a world-changing legend. Memphis celebrates a panoply of musical giants whose talent and achievements reflect a rich diversity of genres. The Memphis Music Hall of Fame’s program of inductions began Read more
Critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vanessa Collier has signed for exclusive worldwide representation with Concerted Efforts. A live album is scheduled for release this October, the follow-up the her 2020 release Heart on the Line. For 2023 bookings please reach out to Tom Gold. Vanessa Collier blends rock, soul and blues and is a winner Read more