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Since forming in 1988 in Southern California, Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys have become one of the worlds most beloved Americana/Roots acts, drawing from the deep musical waters that flow just beneath the surface of Rock & Rolls fertile soil. A childhood passion for Country, Doo Wop, and Rhythm & Blues 45s led Sandy (born Robert Williams) to pursue a singing career as a teenager, beginning a life in music that continues decades later. And as his personal record collection continues to grow (75,000 and counting), so does the depth of the musical influences that stream through his songwriting and singing style. A critically acclaimed tribute to Tex Mex hero Freddy Fender, released at the beginning of the 2020 lockdown, points the way forward for Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys as they continue on a path of musical growth. After nearly 35 years on the road, and more than two dozen releases to their credit, they remain key figures on the ever changing Americana circuit, both on record and in live appearances.

AJ Lee & Blue Summit's latest disc, City of Glass, is a slow burn album, remarkable when considered alongside records released by their peers in recent years. Lee & Blue Summit seem unconcerned with mimicking hugely successful jamgrass bands, or making competitive and performatively intellectual new acoustic music, or wishing to establish themselves as the superlative string band in their bluegrass, old-time, and Americana communities. Instead, they’re most interested in discovering themselves, their own music, and sonics and textures truly their own. So, when they went into the studio to track City of Glass and its gorgeous twelve tracks, they once again forsook the roads most traveled by, looking to their local California community for collaborators that also feel right at home in their chosen family band. They brought in Lech Wierzynski, of the California Honeydrops, to produce; they tapped Bay Area steel guitarist Mikiya Matsuda for a couple of tracks; plus they had Californian banjo player, instructor, and Father’s Day Fest veteran Luke Abbott lend five-string to a number. 

The group is proud to be Californian, proud to represent the neo-traditionalist bluegrass and folk from the state and the mighty communities surrounding them. Their music shines with this “think global, act local” sort of approach. On a track called, “Can’t Find You At All,” they even included a sort of reunion of “The Tuttles featuring AJ Lee” – the true family band from their early childhoods that also included Lee, Sully Tuttle, Grammy Award winner Molly Tuttle, and their father Jack Tuttle – who wrote “Can’t Find You At All”.

Travel back in time to the 1960’s for a fabulous evening of music and entertainment, reminiscent of a Frank Sinatra performance at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. Song stylist Jack Garrett and the amazing Atomic Wise Guys perform Sinatra’s classic hits, including “Fly Me to the Moon,” “My Way,” “One for My Baby (One More for the Road),” “Summer Wind,”“Nice N Easy,” “New York, New York” and many more. As a bonus, Jack and his ten-piece band perform hits from some of Frank Sinatra’s friends such as Tony Bennett, Frankie Valli, Dean Martin and Bobby Darin.

Featuring custom-written, deeply authentic band arrangements to reproduce the original Sinatra recordings, Let Me Be Frank is a fast paced, high-energy show including audience interaction and interesting information about Frank, both the man and his music.

The Atomic Wise Guys
Brian Cashwell – Pianist – Keyboard
Michael Sharfe – Bassist
Jim Leslie – Drummer – Music Director
Bill Dixon – Trombone – Trumpet – Music Arranger
Jeff Folkens – Lead Trumpet
Christopher Jeffery – Jazz Trumpet
Grant “King” Koeller – Tenor Sax
Jeff Spurlock – Alto Sax
Terry Staten – Baritone Sax
Jack Garrett – Vocalist

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Carll is more than two decades into a celebrated career. Praise from places such as Pitchfork and the New York Times––the latter of which yoked Carll’s ability to tackle tough issues with wry humor to Bob Dylan––punctuate a resume that includes Americana Music Awards and a Grammy nomination. His songs aren’t safe, but many of Nashville’s stars have recorded them, including Kenny Chesney, Lee Ann Womack, and Brothers Osborne. As a solo recording artist, Carll has long-since established himself as one of Americana’s most-played––and most loved––voices. His warm but crackling vocals, wit, and heart dance through wordplay that’s always clever, and never too precious. Through it all, whenever Carll points a finger, it’s most often at himself.

As We’re Only Human collects moments of Carll figuring out how to be with himself, the songs feel forthright, hopeful, and timely. In today’s onslaught of instant gratification, rage-baiting headlines, glorified intolerance, and falling empathy, the record is a startling outlier: an artist’s raw, real-life effort to live well—both with himself and others. Carll embraces private epiphanies, and shares them with the world, allowing them to unfold for all to see and share.
 

Nellie McKay has announced Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos, an 18-
track collection of rare recordings that led to McKay’s groundbreaking debut
album, Get Away From Me (2004). Gee Whiz will be available May 9, 2025 on
streaming, CD, and as a 2-LP set on Omnivore Recordings.

“I was attracted to the lyrics immediately,” says legendary Beatles engineer and
producer Geoff Emerick, who was drawn to the demos and produced Get Away
From Me. “Her level of maturity at such a young age is astounding. You come
across an artist of this caliber once every 10 or 15 years. And I don’t do a lot of
projects these days unless something really stands out, like this did.”

Composed, performed and produced by Nellie, these revelatory demos were
recorded in 2002 and sold by McKay as a series of handmade CD-R’s. The new
demo collection has been sequenced identically to Get Away From Me, with three
unreleased bonus songs, and mastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael
Graves.

When Get Away From Me was released on February 10, 2004, Rolling Stone gave
the album ★★★★. McKay made her national TV debut on The Late Show with
David Letterman, and the record landed in the Billboard Top 200. She was
compared to both “Doris Day and Eminem,” said NPR Morning Edition. “And throw
in a bit of Billie Holiday for good measure.” “It was a different time,” says Nellie.

“But if older reviewers—mostly men—scoffed at her juvenile assessment of George
Bush and world politics, with twenty years of hindsight, we can now say that she
was a lot more astute than many of the scholars writing at the time,” writes
Audiophix. “Nellie McKay—and her debut album—were not perfect. They were
better than that. They were real. And in a year that saw seminal punk from Green
Day (American Idiot) and seminal hip hop from Kanye (College Dropout), which
came out the same day as Get Away From Me, that was enough to make it the best
album of the year.”

Revisiting the album, Salon named it “one of the great pop albums of the early 21st
century.” Popmatters writes, “Two decades later, the circumstances and names
differ, but the anguish remains the same, as politicians, dictators, and other killers
make life hell for ordinary citizens.

ROCK THIS TOWN – Swingin Through the 50's & 60's covering artists such as Louis Prima, Bobby Darin, Eddie Cochran, Richie Valens, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Bill Haley and The Comets, Glen Miller Orchestra, Buddy Holly, The Stray Cats, Dean Martin, Benny Goodman, Gene Vincent, Elvis Presley, and many more It is at the forefront of the swing revival in popular music, blending a vibrant fusion of the American sounds of classic 50 s rock & roll and big band swing with the energy and spirit of contemporary culture.

SWEET MEGG -“Sweet Megg is a genre-blending vocalist and songwriter, weaving jazz, country, and blues into a sound that’s both timeless and fresh. Originally from NYC and now based in Nashville, she’s traveled the world, honing her craft everywhere from Parisian jazz clubs to Southern honky-tonks.
 

Experience the voice, the passion, and the power of one of music’s most iconic artists with

The Linda Ronstadt Experience—featuring American Idol star Tristan McIntosh—

This highly acclaimed tribute concert celebrates Linda Ronstadt in the prime of her career, as Tristan McIntosh delivers a stunningly authentic performance backed by a world-class band. With her electrifying vocals and magnetic stage presence, Tristan captures both the power and subtlety that made Ronstadt a musical legend.

A Journey Through the Hits The Linda Ronstadt Experience takes audiences on a nostalgic ride through timeless chart-toppers including:

“You’re No Good”

“When Will I Be Loved”

“That’ll Be the Day”

“Blue Bayou”

…and many more!

Fans will also be treated to beloved tracks made famous by Ronstadt and written by the likes of Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, and Warren Zevon.

A Star-Studded Tribute Tristan McIntosh’s performance is nothing short of breathtaking. With poise, grace, and a voice that commands the stage, she brings Linda Ronstadt’s music back to life in a way that’s both heartfelt and exhilarating.

Even Peter Asher, Linda Ronstadt’s own producer, had this to say:

“Congratulations to Tristan and the band for doing such an excellent job.”

Whether you grew up listening to Ronstadt or are discovering her music for the first time, this tribute will transport you through decades of unforgettable music.

Hailing from both the Appalachian and Piedmont regions of North Carolina, the Rangers have long held traditional bluegrass paramount, while possessing an exceptional ability to bring it down the mountain, and to incorporate accessible influence from all walks of the region. With the band’s last few albums, they have gained recognition from well beyond the world of bluegrass, earning a reputation as some of the most influential songwriters in Americana today.

Newcomer to this ship, Aaron Burdett, brings a soul-stirring element to the Rangers’ mastery of mountain music. Burdett is an award-winning singer-songwriter, and a student of folk tradition. He provides a fresh, emotional context to the songbook, which “can reach out and touch your heart or slap you in the face,” to use the praise of drummer and multi-instrumentalist, Mike Ashworth.

Steep Canyon Rangers is made up of Graham Sharp on banjo and vocals, Mike Guggino on mandolin/mandola and vocals, Aaron Burdett on guitar and vocals, Nicky Sanders on fiddle and vocals, Mike Ashworth on drums and vocals, and Barrett Smith on bass, guitar, and vocals.

Over the band’s esteemed career, the three-time Grammy nominees have released 14 studio albums, three collaborative albums with actor and banjoist Steve Martin, been inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, and appeared on some of music’s biggest stages. In 2013, Nobody Knows You won the GRAMMY Award for Best Bluegrass Album, while 2012’s Rare Bird and 2020’s North Carolina Songbook garnered nominations in the same category.