Featured Blog Posts – December 2010 Archive (34)

Eric Brace, front man for Last Train Home, and Peter Cooper, a Nashville songwriter and journalist, released “Master Sessions” last month, one of 2010’s delights, an alluring album featuring a couple of their boyhood heroes – Lloyd Green and Mike Auldridge — playing along.…

FTB Show #100 features song selections from my Best of 2010 list.   My full in-order list is posted here. …

 Today and until the end of the year, FSR Radio, is  drawing again from our archive of concerts , to explore the Blues strand of Roots Music, with a truly global…

We've added an exciting new feature to FSR, we can now broadcast your promotional video and radio shows here…

www.kristadetor.com

Some sort of upside down pun in the title there as Krista Detor offers an ambitious collection of songs, organised by theme into five separate three-song suites. The final suite is actually described as a 'bonus suite' and stands alone. It was recorded at the Darwin…

http://www.curstsons.co.uk

The Curst Sons are three guys from Brighton dressed like Hole In The Wall Gang wannabes; maybe they look like the bank clerks who get shot up by the HITW gang, but I'm not sure. That Willi on the lead vocal there, he's got a mean look in his eye. The point is, they don't look like anyone else and they don't sound like…

http://www.cometrecords.net/

There are times listening to this short (six tracks, twenty minutes) cd when you think that Emmylou herself would be pretty chuffed with this as a piece of work.  This is most especially true on a cover of a Bill Staines song, Roseville Fair. It's classic Emmylou territory really; a really good song that's not particularly widely known…

Rolling Stone and several other sources have reported that Don Van Vliet, the notoriously reclusive rock legend best known as Captain Beefheart has died.

According to the article on Rolling Stone's website:

Don Van Vliet, who…

No new music through the letterbox in the last couple of weeks - very little post…

It's a dark winter's night on Tybee Island.  Up and down Tybrisa Street, near the pier, the souvenir shops have all closed and a brisk breeze is whipping from the beach, only a few yards away.  The neon glow of Doc's Bar spills out onto the sidewalk and as you step inside…

Thanks to one and all for a truly wonderful year of music and fraternity, its been a great pleasure to be able to share it with you all here on FSR on The Medicine Show and at gigs across the continent, this year we got to go to Spain for Bernie Fest, England for Leadenhall Festival, Maverick Festival, Truck Fest, and SummerTyne Fest, Scotland for Southern Fried Festival, Belladrum Festival and…

In the spirit of the holidays,Tift Merrit is offering a free download of two outtakes from See You On the…

Finland is not the usual place that you’d look for the blues but slide guitarist Erja Lyytinen is turning a few eyes in that direction. The eponymous title track opens with a screech of feedback and she’s off and running on a soft rocker…

play  Spike Flynn — Further On Down The Line

Today we heard the news here in Australia that 27 refugees drowned in very rough seas near to Christmas Island trying to get to Australia. Many more…

Morning all,



Last year I thought I would fully immerse myself into "The Spirit of Christmas" by recording a "Christmas Special". Knowing the limitations of what an internet broadcaster like myself has on what I can and what can't play, I sent out a message to…