On this weeks Medicine Show Health & Happiness Hour we feature an exclusive tribute to George Jones and a preview of the new My Darling Clementine album, from Michael…

Singer-songwriter Thomas Hentges better known as Burlap Wolf King embarks on a Midwestern tour tonight in Sioux Falls South Dakota that will take him through seven states in the month of April. After the successful release of a new EP in his native state of South Dakota, Hentges will bring his brand of "bare-boned truth in song" to the masses with stops in Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and North Dakota.

Burlap Wolf King has been turning folk, alt.country and…

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the greatest Dobro player of all?

Faced with that query, most magic mirrors would probably respond by saying that Jerry Douglas has been, and is, the premier Dobro player of our time.

And who could argue?

As the featured soloist for the multi-Platinum, multi-Grammy, multi-(pick an award) Allison Krauss and Union Station, Jerry Douglas has been raising the bar for what passes as virtuosity on that instrument for decades now.…

"Music is Love" is a 2-disc set dedicated to the outstanding body of work produced by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Featuring 27 artists, 27 songs and a stunning 36-page booklet,

"Music Is Love" is a project supporting the Equestrian Therapy Co-op in Brandeis, California.

THE SONGS

DISC 1

01. For What It's Worth Ron LaSalle 02. Triad Steve Wynn 03. Helplessly Hoping Judy Collins 04. Lady

Of The Island  Liam Ó Maonlaí 05. Bluebird  Sugarcane…

Simone Felice is an unstoppable creative force. He is a survivor, father, songwriter, poet, novelist,  and artist. I recently had the opportunity to ask Simone about his literary work, his musical history (including his work with The Felice Brothers, The Duke And The King, and The Avett Brothers), as well as his new album called Simone Felice.

At the age of 12 Simone Felice suffered a brain aneurysm and was pronounced clinically dead for several minutes. Recovering…

by Dan King

On a recent field trip to Zia Records, I discovered two albums in the Bluegrass/Americana section that would fit the criteria for review on Prescription Bluegrass. One was Leonard Cohen’s “Old Ideas” and the other was The Grascals “Life Finds A Way.” I also found a CD by a fellow named Charles Manson in the section, but I’m still not sure if that was some store employees idea of a bad joke, or if perhaps there is a hot new mandolin…

by Dan King

Back in the late ’60′s, there wasn’t much to do in Phoenix Arizona. On summer afternoons, the mercury would routinely spike to 110 degrees and the prevailing wisdom was to take dental records along if you were foolish enough to engage in any outdoor activity. I was a young boy then, but I had already plunged headlong into the inviting world of performance music.

I was a guitar player.

My musical heroes at the time were electric rock…

Just bought my copy! well done Michael Weston King, can't wait to hear what "The View from Shit Creek" is like from Jackie Leven (still can't believe we won't see Jackie again) great list of folk including our friends Kit Clark, Southern Tenant Folk Union, Eddi Reader, Martin G Stephenson, Peter Bruntnell, Reg Meuross, Andy White, Christine Collisterall venting their spleens for us, thank you well done!

At least in this project we…

Singer-Songwriter Thomas Hentges is about as legit as it gets.  The man oozes; yes, oozes style from a time long forgotten with no air of pretension, and it shines through in everything he does musically.  I became familiar with Thomas at the Sioux River Folk Festival  back in 2007.  At the time he was fronting The Quaker City Night Hawks; one of the best undiscovered yet established alt-country/rock bands in his native South Dakota.  But this isn't a story about the Quaker City…

 Gary Clark, Jr. cuts a quiet figure, long limbs settled into a chair on a stage in a conference room in a convention center. It’s not even noon in the industrial bland room with some bean bags on the floor for the exhausted to drape on, but the folks from WFUV are doing their best to broadcast music that matters live-from-the-wilds-of-SXSW back to New York City, and the black man in the floppy, slightly over-sized fedora is happy to share his music when most other bluesmen would be…

Christopher King is the executive producer of the recently released, 2-CD set, Aimer Et Perdre, which is available now via the Tompkins Squarelabel. Mr. King has an impressive history of both collecting 78s, as well as assembling some remarkably beautiful, and thoughtfully assembled box sets and collections of very rare recordings.

In addition to his latest collection, Aimer Et Perdre, which features artwork by…

Rob Picott

Welding Burns

(independent)

 Admittedly I’m playing a bit of catch-up here, because technically Welding Burns was released at the tail end of 2011. Still, this time next year, anyone reading this can feel free to remind me that I predicted it would emerge as one of the best roots/folk/Americana efforts of this year. Picott’s been plying his craft for quite awhile now, and sadly, too few people have taken notice. Which is all the more reason why this…

By now the dust has nearly settled on the stunning 2011 Decemberists album, The King Is Dead. A rootsy, Americana turn-around that surprised their indie-lit core fans who were used to longer, more abstract songs, The Decemberists’ new sound dropped at a key time when…

Don't laugh at Harry Belafonte, the incomparable American/world roots folk musician and popularizer, for being caught on tv asleep or meditating last week. Laugh with him during his appearance with Steven Colbert  which he amazingly turns…

3^rd + Lindley Re-Opening

Nashville, TN

21 July 2011

When the Kentucky Headhunters hit country music with a low rumble and those loud guitars, people weren’t sure what to make of them. Looking like hillbilly cavemen, they sang and spoke with a  drawl so thick you could slice it and seemed to merge their Bill Monroe and Don Gibson with Freddie King and Muddy Waters.

If it wasn’t quite a revolution – they were…

The Bobby Keys Band

Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN

2 May 2011

There are few musicians synonymous with an oeuvre or a sound, yet Bobby Keys pretty much defines rock & roll saxophone, especially of the Rolling Stones varietal. Sweaty, moist, intense, raw, in your face yet melodic, his riffs have been as much a part of AOR radio as Mick’s yowl or Keith’s downstroke.

With little fanfare, the 68-year old player has quietly put together a band to…

South by Southwest

Missive 9

Billy Bob & the King of Luck

When manager Mark Rothbaum and a sweetheart investor approached rogue film maker/actor/screenwriter/musician Billy Bob Thornton, they were hoping he could create a documentary about Willie Nelson that would be as singular as the both the subject and the man they were enlisting. They proposed a multi-million dollar budget; they talked about Martin Scorcese’s work with the Stones and the…

1.0 Do you see your ‘Frosting’ cd as a one-off project or the future? One off? oh, no... Frosting is the future of my personal writing... "till old and grey, or old and greyer". The name is somewhat non-descript, and lends itself to an ever morphing musical ride, threaded in Rock and Roll. Well, that's how I see it.

2.0 Are the songs on the album all new? Half are new…