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Anyone else out there have a Kickstarter to share?
We are trying to raise funds to release our album Decent People on CD and vinyl. Here's the link
See the No Depression review by Adam Sheets of Decent People here.
If you can help us out with a buck or two it could add up real quick! We're currently at 75% of our funding goal and we have a little over a week left to go!
Also please post a link to your Kickstarter or one that you're interested in here in this thread!
Thanks!
Dusty Vinyl
http://www.imperialrooster.com
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Permalink Reply by Truckstop Darlin' on -
We are trying to raise funds to finish our 2nd record! CHeck out our campaign to see how you can help! Thankshttp://http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1476248521/truckstop-dar...
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Permalink Reply by Banjo Sandwich on -
This is worthy of posting: Banjo conceptualist Ryan Cavanaugh is raising money for a new jazz-fusion banjo album called Back Country to the Future, inspired by his roots in bluegrass and Americana music to be recorded with fusion legends Bill Evans (sax), Mark Egan (bass) and Joel Rosenblatt (drums). Please donate if you can, share wherever you can. http://igg.me/p/70325
Called “one of the best technical players ever,” by banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck, Ryan tours internationally with Bill Evans and has performed and or/recorded with Warren Haynes, Bill Evans, Medeski Martin and Wood, fusion trumpet icon Randy Brecker, and many others.
Ryan says:
Dear patron,
The days of record labels funding artist projects are all but gone.
Independent artists such as myself are forced to seek out production budgets through other means. If it weren't for patrons some of the world’s most beautiful music may never have been heard. Please help us reach our goal in making some great new music!
Sincerely,
Ryan Cavanaugh
If you haven't heard of Ryan before, check out these videos
In Nashville at Music City Roots:
Playing Jigs with his teacher Rex McGee:
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Permalink Reply by Sara Syms on -
Hang Onto Me (rehearsal at Montana Studio) from sara syms on Vimeo.
Hi guys! What an awesome thread as there is so much undiscovered talent out there and there is nothing better than discovering new artists! My name is Sara Syms and I am a singer/songwriter working incredibly hard on my upcoming album. We just got back from Dreamland Studios up in woodstock and tracked the band live in a 19th century church which has hosted such artists as Pat Metheny, The Band, 10,000 Maniacs, Herbie Hancock, and current artists The Fleet Foxes and Beach House.
We also got the opportunity to work with an incredibly talented engineer, Matthew Cullen who has worked with Ray LaMontagne, My Morning Jacket, Madeline Peyroux and Rachael Yamagata to name a few. This album is so important to me and I would love if you could take a sec and check it out! Nice to meet you all. Looking forward to many more discussions.
Cheers, Sara :)
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Permalink Reply by RP N10 on -
Jan Bell's kickstarter is still looking for backers. Details below and at kickstarter.com
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
'Dream of the Miner's Child' is dedicated to my Grandad (in the photo above). Its an album with many special guests, including my band The Maybelles. I'm often asked 'What's an English girl doing in New York City playing country music?' I've set out to answer that question and tie together my Yorkshire roots, with the folk music and arts community I'm part of in America for the last twenty years. There are songs by emerging and established American and British songwriters; a couple of traditional folk songs; and a number of my own.
Music as a way of telling stories and bringing people together made a life long impact on me during the year long miners strike of 1984. I'd see big strapping men singing on the picket lines, even on a bitter cold morning. Billy Bragg played a rowdy room at a fundraiser, and when he launched into 'Between the Wars' (which I cover on the album), he brought us all around in one unified understanding. Grandad went down the mine as a teenager, and had worked there forty five years at the time of the strike. There are songs about him and village life on the album.
There are many special guests on this recording: Melissa Carper (co-founder of The Maybelles) and her Austin,Texas band The Carper Family. Folks I've been playing with a few years now: Jolie Holland, Samantha Parton (of The Be Good Tanyas), Rima Fand (Luminescent Orchestrii), Will Scott, Megan Palmer,,Philippa Thompson and Hilary Hawke. Friends from the road include Truckstop Honeymoon, Salty Pink, Casey Neill, and fellow English woman Juliet Russell,who leads mass choirs, and works wonders on an old Celtic ballad on the album. I'm also joined on a song about a Birmingham coal miner (which could be set in England as easily as Alabama), by one of my heroes, the legendary Alice Gerrard.
As a fan of Loretta Lynn, I was led to the songs of Jean Ritchie who in turn led me to stories about 'Coal Mining Diva' Aunt Molly Jackson, (who I wrote a song about using her words from a letter she sent to Sing Out! folk magazine). When I heard songs by Hazel and Alice I felt right at home in the stories they told.
I'm often drawn to songs that turn out to be written by folks from Kentucky coal miner stock, such as "You'll never leave Harlan Alive" by Darrell Scott, which The Maybelles often play. That song hits home and echoes the life of a Yorkshire family as well. I've learned that throughout Appalachia, folks have ancestors who migrated to America from northern England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Many songs traveled with them, such as the title track which started life in South Wales in 1907. Following an accident where over 100 miner's perished "Don't Go Down in the Mines, Dad" was penned by Welshmen Robert Donnelly and Will Geddes. It was "recomposed" by the blind Alabama Evangelist Rev. Andrew Jenkins, in 1925. Later that year Vernon Dalhart recorded it as 'Dream of the Miner's Child'. Its since been covered by Ralph Stanley, and Doc Watson among others. You can find out more about the history of this song in Archie Green's landmark dissertation Only a Miner.
Following such mining disasters many Welsh miner's - including Grandad Williams family went across the Pennine Mountains to South Yorkshire. The word was that the Fitzwilliam family there, owned and operated the safest pits in the country. Songs from the 'Land of Poet's and Singers' as Wales is known, were now venturing across the Atlantic as well.
Maybe growing up in Yorkshire is what sets Jan Bell apart from the run of local lady folkies. Or maybe its the slide guitars, harmonicas, mandolins and banjos. Dark, old timey spareness......Gorgeous - Chuck Eddy as Senior Editor, VILLAGE VOICE.
Produced and engineered by Jason Mercer at Stoop Sale Recordings. Mixed atSaltlands in DUMBO, NYC. (Several Guest engineers around the country as well). Jason has worked with Ani Difranco, Ron Sexsmith, Rick Moranis, BareNaked Ladies, Tony Scherr, Jesse Harris. He lives and works in Brooklyn, playing music and recording with Matt Keating, Jenifer Jackson, Annie Keating, Mike Ferrio, Jack Grace, Clarence Bucaro, Mary and The Strays, and Ana Egge.
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Permalink Reply by Deborah R. Crooks on -
Thanks Dusty,
I have a new IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds to complete my new recording. Here's the link:
Donate to Indie Americana Artist Deborah Crooks
No contribution is too small, whether that's cash, in-kind services or word-of-mouth!
Many thanks,
Deborah
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Permalink Reply by dan kaplan on
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Hi folks. I'm an American musician living in Sevilla, Spain for the last 25 years or so. Came here to study Spanish guitar and never made it back home. Trying to keep the flame of roots-rock alive in this little corner of the Iberian peninsula. This is my band's Kickstarter project which is called The Indescribable Hat (after a James Thurber story "The 13 Clocks"). It's an interesting collaboration with some quite well-known Spanish painters. Hope some of you will be interested enough to have a look and maybe even be inspired to support it or share it with others. Still, I won't hold my breath. Thanks.
Dan Kaplan and the KRooked TRee Band
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Permalink Reply by Jesse Basham on
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Drew Kennedy has a Kickstarter for his upcoming album going on right now.
There is a SXSW showcase called Nekkid Armadilla that is raising money for the artists on the bill.
Neither of them are mine, but they're both noble causes, so I figured I'd spread the word.
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Permalink Reply by Jesse Burdick on
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Greetings friends and neighbors!
I'm not far off from getting my kickstarter off the ground, and would really appreciate the help.
This is going to be a very unique collection of original roots music, Americana rock included, along with some bluegrass and old time. It's also my first solo album!
The man producing it is Alex Garzone from Vudu Sister and Divey, and I'll be performing with (Vudu Sister) this year at the Newport Folk Festival!
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