Cornbread Cafe #15: Sierra Ferrell
Hear our long-awaited conversation with brilliant songwriter and spellbinding performer Sierra Ferrell — who is the. real. deal. Read More …
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The Big Ears Festival 2018
The Big Ears Festival 2018 is an international cultural gathering taking place March 22–25 that is a dynamic, interactive experience that explores connections between musicians and artists, crossing all musical genres while interfacing with film, performance, and the visual arts. Read More …
Savannah Music Festival
The Savannah Music Festival kicks off March 29 and runs through April 14, presenting world-class celebrations of the musical arts. Read More …
Cornbread Cafe #010
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I promise you WILL have to loosen your belt when you get done with this episode — Pickxen, Grant Maloy Smith, Scott Thorn, Mikalyn Hay, The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow, Parsonsfield. Read More …
Cornbread Cafe #009
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We’re going to get right into the music this show, because the hardcopy of the EP, Tired Old Town, by Chris Anres with Gary McDannold showed up in the mail just a couple days ago, and I have been impatient to share it with you. I couldn’t decide between the five tracks on this 2017 release, so I figured we’d go with the title track, Tired Old Town, to get things goin’. Read More …
The Cornbread Cafe #8: Not a Valentine’s Day episode. Unless’n you want it to be.
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Tanya Gallagher [explicit lyrics], Kate Lush, The Suitcase Junket, Bumper Jacksons, Faint Peter, Birds of Chicago Read More …
The Cornbread Cafe #7: Charlie Parr and a few others we’ve been keepin’ warm for ya’.
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By popular urging, the Cornbread Cafe is going to experiment with a shorter, half-hour format. But we’ll still be overstuffed with great new tunes from the likes of Charlie Parr, Chrystyna Marie, and Kurt Fortmeyer! Read More …
Back Porch Festival: Anais Mitchell, Birds of Chicago, Jeffrey Foucault — Massachusetts
The fourth annual Back Porch Festival returns March 1-4, with all-star line-ups of American roots artists at the Academy of Music and The Parlor Room.
Anaïs Mitchell is a Vermont and Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter who comes from the world of narrative folksong, poetry and balladry.
Birds of Chicago began in 2012 when Nero started writing for his vocal star-muse, Russell. Both were accomplished singer/songwriters with projects of their own, Nero with JT and the Clouds and Russell with the acclaimed Canadian roots outfit Po’ Girl, but together there was an unmistakable chemistry. A cross border band was born.
Foucault has given American poetry some of its most vital lines and his musical searchings have become touchstones of density and durability. Read More …
Back Porch Festival: Deer Tick — Massachusetts
The fourth annual Back Porch Festival returns March 1-4, with all-star line-ups of American roots artists at the Academy of Music and The Parlor Room.
Country soul and Delta blues, old-time gospel and hardcore punk, it’s all in there. Each successive Deer Tick record reveals more colors and increased perspective, the rave-ups get wilder, the ballads more knowing and hurt. Read More …
The Cornbread Cafe #6: INTERVIEW with Janie Barnett, too many new tracks to list!
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Janie Barnett discusses her gracefully drifting release, You See this River. Welcome! brothers and sisters to Episode #6—of the Cornbread Cafe. I am the mongrel, and I will be your waiter today. Cazh and cozy, we’re located at the five-corners of Blues, Americana, Folk, Country, Read More …