Pitchfork Media has a nice report on Charlie Louvin and his upcoming works. Yeah, works. He has two albums due out in the second half of this year including a gospel album titled Steps to Heaven and Charlie Louvin Sings Murder & Disaster Songs. All the details can be found at the Pitchfork post including the origin of the songs for the latter project and Louvin's appearances. After the article you can jump over to Louvin's Myspace page for some tunes.As half of the Louvin Brothers, Charlie Louvin (born Charlie Elzer Loudermilk, July 7, 1927) was one of the most influential musicians of the \'40s and \'50s; the Louvins defined close harmony duet singing for several generations of country fans. After the Louvins disbanded in 1963, Charlie began a solo career, recording for Capitol Records until 1972. During that time, he had two Top Ten hits -- \"I Don\'t Love You Anymore\" (number four, 1964) and \"See the Big Man Cry\" (number seven, 1965) -- as well as a series of minor hits. Louvin continued to perform and record for a variety of labels well into the \'90s. The eponymous Charlie Louvin was released in 2007 on the Tompkins Square label and featured a cast of characters that includes George Jones, Elvis Costello, Marty Stuart, Tom T. Hall, and Jeff Tweedy.
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Dan Tyminski and his band's first video from their new album Wheels features the title track from the album. It a comical train ride with the guys displaying their funny side. See the video on CMT's website.
Cadillac Sky has placed a cut called "Inside Joke" from their upcoming album Gravity's Our Enemy on reverbnation.com. You can also catch video's from the band at the same link including "Born Lonesome", "You Again", "Insomniac Blues for Matthew", along with a live video performance of "Basket Case" and a video introduction to Cadillac Sky.
In 1990 Danny Barnes hooked up with fellow Austin, TX musicians Mark Rubin and Ralph White to create an incredible 14-track gem that was released on the Quarterstick label. This was the very first Bad Livers album that led to 5 more incredible offerings from these bluegrass/americana hipsters.
The Seldom Scene recorded some incredible albums in the early to mid-'70s that led up to Live at the Cellar Door, an incredible set of 23 songs from the band's broad repertoire. This is the Seldom Scene at their very best... good music, very tight as a band and a lot of fun. Live at the Cellar Door is a progressive bluegrass classic, and sounds as fresh and alive today as it did in 1975. I pulled a playful and hopping "Hit Parade of Love" as a great example of how much fun these guys were having at the time... even when banjoist Ben Eldridge drops his pick twice during the song.
McDaris has played bluegrass music professionally for twelve years. He started out with Second Exit for three years, before a three-year stint with New Tradition. From there he joined the Larry Stephenson. McDaris joined The Grascals in December of 2006.
These guys will release their new album "Still Crooked" on June 24th. The new album was recorded at Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York. For a detailed day by day account of how the recording process took shape check out playthebassdrivethebus.blogspot.com.
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