All Blog Posts Tagged 'Nels' (9)

Brooklyn-based folksinger Nels Andrews has been slowly but surely building a remarkable career playing the role of the story-singing troubadour. Since earning the coveted New Folk title at 2002's Kerrville Folk Festival (held in other years by Nanci Griffith and Slaid Cleaves, among others), Andrews has released a handful of…

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FTB podcast #189 features the new album from NELS ANDREWS entitled Scrimshaw. Also new music from DAVID OLNEY, KEVIN DEAL and ANGEL SNOW. Here's the iTunes link to…

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Already released in the Netherlands, Scrimshaw has shot straight to the top of the EuroAmericana chart, and here’s why: on the strength of just two studio albums (Sunday Shoes from 2001 and Off-Track Betting from 2008), Nels Andrews has a devoted following who are delighted to find that this new album is his best…

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late July / early August 2010, The Strut & Stumble Tour, found Nels Andrews A. J. Roach and Ian Thomas Parks travelling and performing together throughout the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The three are close friends… Continue

Strutt and Stumble around the Highlands with Nels Andrews AJ Roach and Ian Parks, July 31 to the 13th August for our Highland Musical Adventure.



Join us for two world class Festivals, a Bar B Q on the banks of The River Ness, take a sea voyage to the off the grid west coast community of Scoraig for the Biscuit and Gravy House Concert, taste whiskey at Carbost on the beautiful Isle Skye, the home of Talasker, and… Continue

The Medicine Show is touring three leading americana amigos as part of Tartan Heart Fringe this year, (calling in at Southern Fried Festival Perth too) Three of my favourite artists as well as favourite people and… Continue

Here's a best of the decade list; I'd like to have put both of Drew Nelson's albums in, partly because nobody seems to have picked up on him much and I reckon he's quite special. In no particular order. All of these I love everytime I hear them and some of them are definitely comfort music for me by now.



AJ Roach: Revelation

Nels Andrews: Sunday Shoes

Bruce Springsteen: Magic

Drew Nelson: Dusty Road to Beulah Land

Joe West: Human… Continue

Nel Andrews and Ana Egge come to Scotlands village of music Ullapool for the Medicine Show on a wind blown night in October. Here in session and conversation with Rob Ellen…

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