January 2011 Blog Posts (59)

I am often amazed by the number of Texas musicians that attain notoriety in European countries before getting any attention here at home…



Case in point – Houston based Richard Cagle and the Voodoo Choir spent some time recently in the top 100 on the Denmark Blues Music Chart with…

The ‘Mats made it all wrong: they were too drunk when it happened to perform on important occasions, too great when the executives of record companies didn’t leave home, unable to shoot a decent video (Bastards Of Young’s is the only legendary one, one single…

Released by Yerbird The Falls is the debut full length album from White Pines the musical aka for Michigan native Joseph Scott, now resident in Akron, OH he was a member of several bands before realizing he had to go it…

www.lukedoucet.com

 Genre Warning: Rock music alert!

     I had to say that because I'm not sure if this is FSR territory really, but heck, it's a great record.  This is Luke Doucet's sixth 'solo' album in the last decade but his regular supporting cast get feature billing as The White Falcon in recognition of the co-operative effort that…

Afternoon all,

 

"Happy New Year" to you all.



The first show of every new year is exciting because anything I play that is new tends to be really new. This year is no exception and I play new songs by Emily Barker…

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www.adam-klein.com

Imagine a collection of songs with strong pop hooks that have their roots - in equal measure - in The Beatles, Whiskeytown and Son Volt and you'll have some idea of what this really classy set from Georgia's Adam Klein sounds like. OK, it's difficult, I know, but it's all there on…

A happy new year to all our readers, members and now listeners,  from all at FSR which is based here in Scotland. Everyone knows how the Scots love new year and that this is a music sensitive land, to celebrate both facts,  Radio FSR is broadcasting Concerts from all Scottish acts all week. Recorded by The Medicine Show last year.

 Tune in here.  …

www.spikeflynn.com

Australian Spike Flynn is an unusual debutant into the music business. It seems he's been playing music and writing songs all his life but it's only now, in his fifties, that things have come together enough for him to have these songs recorded. In all these years, it's clear from his subject…

www.theburnsunitband.com

 Born out of the annual Burnsong songwriting retreat, The Burns Unit is apparently the band no-one wanted to be in, a freak co-operation between eight disparate talents that somehow came up with a bit of magic. There's some live dates coming up soon, including Celtic…

The Wiyos have a bunch of new dates



They have just finished a recording session with Andy Bean of the Two Man Gentlemen Band they had Joebass back in the engineers seat!



Upcoming Shows…

There’s still a place in America where bourbon flows like a river, cigarettes burn fast and guitars sound masculine and rugged: in this particular case we’re talking about Joshua Black Wilkins’ Nashville. Firmly convinced that the differences between Hank Williams and Social Distortionare almost irrelevant,…

COUSTI came together in 2006 to write and record music based entirely on their own Individual tastes and influences. Drawing on a wealth of experience spanning over four decades from the mid sixties to the present day Cousti’s influences range from such early artistes as the Gratefull dead to Jackson Brown, Jackie Lomax and Stevie Ray Vaughan. to more lesser known…