Not much to say in the episode. I'm dealing with a mass exodus of all my files from Mevio to Libsyn. But this episode is filled with amazing music. Enjoy!

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Music in this weeks episode:

- Women & Work AND Juniper by Lucero

(from Women & Work)…

Returning with his first new album in seven years, Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Gordon drills in on the second half of that descriptor -- telling stories that resonate like age-old fables, even on the first listen. Produced by Dove Award winner Joe McMahan (Freedy Johnston, Allison Moorer), Gloryland is another milestone in a career that's already seen Gordon craft well-regarded sides with producer Garry Tallent of the E Street Band, singer Lucinda Williams and Bo Ramsey, now…

Cornshed Sisters     

Tell Tales

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"It’s Folk Jim; but not as we know it."

In a recent gig review I described the four Cornshed Sisters as looking like Primary School teachers with a twinkle in their eyes their debut album confirms that portrayal.

The album TELL TALES has taken some recording, as the ladies in question all hold down day jobs meaning time is of the…

Th' Legendary Shack Shakers Play Tulsa's Unit D this Month

By Julie Wenger Watson

Colonel J.D. Wilkes and his Legendary Shack Shakers will be rocking the house on Feb. 23 at Tulsa’s Unit D, a very hip venue flying under the radar for some, but well-known to those who like their music with more than a little attitude. While punkgrassabillyblues, courtesy of the Shack Shakers, is on the main menu,…

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There are certain discoveries you make in life that downright throw you off your metaphysical balance; that completely rewire your thinking patterns.  I had encountered Dylan in high school, and…

          There is a story that once during a concert of his Bob Dylan introduced a song by Townes Van Zandt as being written by “the greatest song writer in the world.” Given Dylans’aversion to such hyperbolic outbursts it probably never happened, but there is a certain surreal pleasure in entertaining the idea that it might have. The irony of it is inescapable. The idea of the musician who has been saddled with that title for most of his working life bestowing it on another musician,…

Artist: Sweet Wednesday

Album Title: Escaping from the Pale Moonlight

If Natalie Merchant and Neil Young were to form a band, the result wouldn’t be distant from Sweet Wednesday’s harmonious mélange of folk, country, and roots rock. Name-dropping such iconic figures may seem like…

What started out as a mild infatuation developed into a deep affection. So after repeated spins of Sugar + the Hi-lows’ debut album, it’s time to spread a little lovin’.

With a playlist that seductively ebbs and flows, Sugar + the Hi-lows, released on Valentine's Day (…

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Here's how I generally select music for this blog: usually while I'm doing something else. (True story!) If it "pops" out at me from the general background noise of the Internets, then there's something about it that makes it worth my attention.

This is true of the Seattle-based The Washover Fans. The band sounds as if they are of one mind. The confidence,…

Mark Linn is a man on a mission. He runs Delmore Recordings, which is a record label that is philosophically dedicated to unearthing and reissuing some remarkable recordings that would, in all likelihood, not being seeing the light of day if Mr. Linn wasn't on the job. The label has co-collaborated and worked with another one of my favorite labels, Light In The Attic.

Delmore…

The fanfare this past week in the music community has been moving along quickly from story to story. Saturday brought the news of Whitney Houston’s death, which in turn led to hastily planned tributes and memorials that most of America witnessed Sunday evening at The Grammy Awards. Now, the narrative has moved on to the announcement of the performers at this year’s upcoming Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Once invoking hysterics only amongst the jam-band set of world travelers, Bonnaroo…

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The lineage of the blues to the African-American slave field hollers, work songs and spirituals has been endlessly repeated. Plenty of historical overviews highlight how these vocal articulations echoed African cultural elements, and how their characteristics have had…

Bap Kennedy      

I first came across Bap Kennedy in 1989 when his band Energy Orchard supported Joe Cocker at Sheffield City Hall. Their songs were a mixture of Country-Rock, Celtic-Folk and the burgeoning Indie movement that was sweeping the charts at the time, but it was their clever lyrics and sheer joy at being on stage that made me a fan.

On my return home I raved about them to a friend who managed a Record Shop in Newcastle and two weeks later he presented me…

... or, "I don't think this could get any better... except maybe if there was free dental care." My friend Maria said that as we stepped out on the promenade deck after the Loudon Wainwright and Richard Thompson "Loud and Rich" show. I think it pretty much covers the basic Cayamo experience. Except for the excessively seasick (and there were precious few of those as the seas are really very calm), every person that I came across was positive about the shows, the…

I'm delighted to be able to make the Medicine Show available as a podcast for our No Depression friends for the very first time! particular as this weeks show features Drew Nelson's new album "Tilt-&-Whirl" released yesterday on Red House Records.

The Medicine Show, Health and Happiness Hour, first airs 16th Feb 2012 8pm (GMT) on www.UKCountryRadio.com then streams on Medicine Show Radio all week after this broadcast,…

This group is one of the true iconic groups of Bluegrass Music. To celebrate their last 30 years of recording and playing music, they will be making 3 of these EPs, eight songs on each CD and each disc will cover a decade. Their last two CDs with Rural Rhythm Records have both been very successful, each being #1 on the Bluegrass charts. Those were "Still Learning" and "No Turning Back". This band has had many of the bluegrass greats , like Dan Tyminski and Adam Steffey pass thru it over the…

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This whole Chris Brown thing reminds me of a deleted scene from Mike Judge's Idiocracy and is exhibit A in the case against our modern day society and culture.

I'm not speaking from any moral high ground here. A short list of any of my favorite artists would reveal drug addiction, alcoholism, and even an attempted murder or two. But I was…

Wanna Feel Somethin’, the debut album from Mary Bridget Davies does indeed feel something like an artist on verge of bigger things. Fresh on the heels of their second place finish at the 2011 international blues challenge, Davies and her crack four piece band recorded this ten song set in Kansas City, augmented by a hot horn section. The tracks all showcase the amazing vocals of Davies, who starred in the musical Love- Janis and toured with Big Brother and the Holding Co.…

Having just read the No Depression interview with Afie Jurvanen, I thought I'd share the review that I had recently done on his new album. 

Jurvanen, who goes by the moniker Bahamas, creates music that radiates a laidback coolness. The Toronto-based musician (who spent several years playing in Feist’s band) blends together blue-eyed soul, home-crafted indie rock, and ‘60s rock - and then gives it all a dose of echo to create something…