In conjunction with the FreshGrass Festival, music news outlet No Depression‘s third running of the Singer-Songwriter Award features our very own Anna Tivel for this year’s competition. Hailing from Portland Oregon, Tivel is a skilled lyricist with the ability to move her audience through shared experience. Having toured hundreds of thousands of miles already, she Read more | No Depression's full article.

Just ten years ago, We Were Promised Jetpacks was debuting its acclaimed album These Four Walls as 21-year-olds with a thunderous energy. Today, the band prepares for its July 2019 anniversary tour to commemorate their debut. Along with a celebratory tour, We Were Promised Jetpacks is releasing a 10th-anniversary edition of These Four Walls, a Read more | For more information and tour dates, check out the WWPJ artist page here

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Today, Paste Magazine commemorated a few CE artists, praising their new releases among the best in Country and Americana this year. #1 on the list is Caroline Spence‘s Mint Condition; journalist Ellen Johnson praises the record for its “everyman” perspective of storytelling that is sure to resonate with anyone who’ll bend an ear. Spence’s release Read more | Read Paste's full article

Concerted Efforts artist, Anna Tivel, released a powerful music video for her song, “The Question”. Read more about the creation of the video in an article from American Songwriter here. For more info and upcoming tour dates for Anna Tivel visit their artist page here. Read more | Click here to read about the creation of the video at American Songwriter

The Memphis Cook Convention Center was packed with blues musicians, fans, and music-world luminaries on May 9th to see who would be announced as winners at the 40th Annual Blues Music Awards. Ruthie Foster was the sole musician to retain their title as she again won the Koko Taylor Award for Traditional Blues Female Artist, her 9th  Blues Music Award win overall. For Read more

Boris has never been one for sentimentality—they simply wave goodbye to old worlds in favor of new horizons. That’s exactly the logic behind the band’s two forthcoming reissues of Akuma No Uta and Feedbacker, which will be released via Third Man Records this year, marking a new partnership between the band and label. The batch of reissues also makes way for Boris’s Read more | For more information and tour dates, visit Boris' artist page.

Concerted Efforts artists Rhiannon Giddens, Our Native Daughters, and Mark Erelli have received nominations for the Americana Music Awards of 2019! Artist of the Year: Rhiannon GiddensGroup of the Year: Our Native DaughtersSong of the Year: “By Degrees,” Mark Erelli, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Lori McKenna, Anais Mitchell & Josh Ritter (Written by Mark Erelli) Read more | See Rolling Stone's full article here.

Roots musician Rhiannon Giddens was recently featured in The New Yorker. Diving deep into the history and icons of black folk music, the article addresses the lost appreciation for North Carolina fiddler Frank Johnson. Giddens draws much of her musical and cultural influence from Johnson, whose genius has been swept under the rug for 200 Read more | Check out The New Yorker's article here.

Josh Ritter’s 10th record, Fever Breaks, is due April 26th. It’s been 20 years since his debut release, and there’s a lot to celebrate. Fever Breaks boasts a new, skilled roster of collaborators – including Jason Isbell and 400 Unit as his backing band. The result of such a collaboration is the beautiful melding of Read more | See Josh Ritter on NPR First LIsten