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Gus Reeves & The Petty Thieves
Lyrics from the East Coast, music from the West (by way of Chicago), and a studio in Nashville, TN. That’s how Gus Reeves & The Petty Thieves came to be, and it helps explain the cross section of musical styles on their debut album, “Americana Pop”. The end result is a debut album that celebrates the Americana genre, which is to say there’s a little something for everyone.
Mary Ann Palermo
Mary Ann Palermo is an international singer/songwriter who has performed widely across the Berkshires for many years as a multi-genre solo performer and with some of the best Jazz musicians who call the region their home. A musician in her own right, Mary Ann has led Mary Ann Palermo & First Take Band, in different configurations and across genres including Jazz, Blues, R&B, Funk, Pop, and Rock, while working as musical director and liturgical cantor.
Abbie Gardner
Abbie Gardner is a fiery dobro player with an infectious smile. Whether performing solo or with Americana darlings Red Molly, her songs are propelled by impeccable slide guitar chops. Her live show is truly unique – as an award-winning songwriter, captivating vocalist, and a world-class lap style dobro player, she has an unmistakable sound all her own.
Susanne Hager
Susanne Hager is a singer and songwriter from Vienna, Austria. Suprised by how male dominated the jazz and music scene is, she founded & hosted the “Ladies First Sessions” for 3 years to promote female musicians. A challenging time in her life led her to songwriting, resulting in her debut album- a blend of jazz, blues, soul & pop- featuring 9 of Viennas finest jazz musicians.
Luther Black and the Cold Hard Facts
Luther Black and the Cold Hard Facts’ idiosyncratic blend of rock, folk, country, blues and gospel can best be described as Dark Americana. Led by singer-songwriter, multi- instrumentalist, producer Rick Wagner, the ensemble first gained recognition with their self- titled debut album in 2020, hailed by Americana Music Show as “great stories about wisdom gained from hardscrabble living, similar to Ray Wylie Hubbard, Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt.
Joe O’ Callaghan
Joe O’ Callaghan is a blues singer and harmonica player hailing from Cork, Ireland. Joe also plays guitar, saxophone and keyboard and has gigged around Ireland and Europe since the 1970’s, first with a band called ‘Boothouse’ and later with ‘Hot Guitars’ whom he still performs with today.
Andrea Van Cleef
“Horse Latitudes,” the fourth solo album by Italian singer-songwriter Andrea Van Cleef. The new record represents a turning point in the career of the musician, divided between heavy-stoner rock with his previous bands Van Cleef Continental and Humulus, and “Americana” driven songwriting, veering toward more southern gothic atmospheres.
Stephen McCorry
Irish singer-songwriter Stephen McCorry has just released ‘Prayer’, the latest single from his forthcoming debut album, ‘Gliding Amongst The Crows’. With a husky voice reminiscent of Tom Waits, Chris Rea and Rod Stewart, Stephen’s music is a fresh take on the piano-based, horn-driven soft rock and R&B of the 1970s.
Paolo Polvo
The artist Paolo Polvo stands for blues guitar and folk sound. While his music is mainly acoustic, his songs electrify and are a soothing balm for those who yearn to escape, simple yet sophisticated. His powerhouse of a voice puts a spell on listeners and invites them to wander unknown shores outside social norms
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The Legends
Muddy Waters – Collection of Quotes & Recollections from & about the Chicago blues legend
“My grandmother didn’t buy hardly anything but church songs, but I got hold of some records with my little nickels, and borrowed some, listened to them very, very carefully. Texas Alexander and Barbecue Bob and Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake — they was my thing...
Tom Waits – Collection of Quotes on Songwriting
“If I want a sound, I usually feel better if I’ve chased it and killed it, skinned it and cooked it. Most things you can get with a button nowadays. So if I was trying for a certain drum sound, my engineer would say: “Oh, for Christ’s sake, why are we wasting our...
Keith Richards on the Blues – Collection of Quotes
What was it about Waters, and that generation of bluesmen, that fascinated him so much? Keith shakes his head."I don't know. It just struck the chord in here somewhere. You heard it and all the breath left your body and you were...anything to be able to approach that....