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Concerted Efforts is happy to announce that the artist, activist, and music therapist gone rogue, Kyshona, has joined our roster! Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community. With the background of a licensed music therapist, the curiosity of a writer, the resolve Read more
Listen to the first single “Lord Hold My Hand” from Dedicated Men of Zion’s forthcoming ‘The Devil Don’t Like It’ below! The full album comes out March 4th on Bible & Tire Recording Co. Check out the full American Blues Scene exclusive release article here. For more information, go to Dedicated Men of Zion’s artist Read more | Check out the full American Blues Scene article here
Concerted Efforts is excited to announce that the amazing Session Americana has joined our roster! Session Americana is a group of musicians’ musicians: a cast of top-shelf players, singers, and writers: Billy Beard, Jon Bistline, Ry Cavanaugh, Dinty Child, Jim Fitting, Jefferson Hamer. From the beginning, there were lines around the block to get into Toad Read more
Check out Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Tiny Desk (Home) set for NPR below! Read the full NPR interview here. For more information, visit Jake Xerxes Fussell’s artist page. Read more | Check out the full NPR article here
Multilingual songwriter Lisa Morales celebrates Mexican heritage with second EP, El Amor No Es Cobarde, on May 5th. A busy year is already underway for Lisa Morales, the “multifaceted artist” (Rolling Stone) and prolific “storyteller” (Albuquerque Journal) whose songs are as diverse as her Mexican-American heritage. Months after teaming up with Santana’s co-founder, Gregg Rolie, for the Read more | Check Out Lisa Morales' "Flyin' and Cryin'" here
Check out Amythyst Kiah’s performance of her new “Love Will Tear Us Apart” cover for Rolling Stone partnered with Gibson below! Read the full Rolling Stone interview here. For more information, visit Amythyst Kiah’s artist page. Read more | Read the full Rolling Stone article here
Check out this web exclusive performance featuring Doe, Escovedo, Lenny Kaye, Sheila E. and more! Read the full JamBase article here. For more information, visit John Doe’s artist page. Read more | Check out the full JamBase article here
Nora Brown’s “The Very Day I’m Gone” has been included on NPR‘s Bob Boilen’s Favorite Music of 2021 playlist! Check out the full article here. For more information, go to Nora Brown’s artist page. Read more | Check out the full NPR article here
Concerted Efforts is happy to announce that Bitch has joined our roster! Bitch makes witchy poet pop. She does it with violins and synthesizers, and the songs she writes are spectral, heartbreaking, political, and beautiful. The longstanding queer music icon has been performing for over 20 years. She grew up with a tap dancing studio Read more
Concerted Efforts artists Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, and Our Native Daughters have been highlighted in the NPR article “How Black women reclaimed country and Americana music in 2021”! Read the full article on NPR here. Read more | Check out the full NPR article here