“The process of making this record was one part voodoo and one part experimentation, but exactly what I’d hoped: an honest collaboration.” – Paul Waring
Browsing: Blues
“Most of the credit of this movie goes to those former college students who had the steel, will, and drive to go forward with the project!”
The arts will hold our hands through the darkness. These are the backstories of five artists who provided us with survival soundtracks for the year that never seemed to end.
It has been a traumatic 21 months for touring musicians across the world but that hasn’t stopped them from recording some stellar albums which I have chosen to share with you this Christmas.
Neal Francis is on the move again!
“Music is our history.” – Jolie Holland
“The banjo has a plunky, non-sustaining tone. Still, I believe the banjo deserves to be an instrument of the blues. Even its history could be a blues song!” – Poet laureate Norbert Krapf
Chloe Kay was moved to write the track after Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s iconic drummer Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton recounted a story to her during an interview for ‘ABS’ about him and Stevie overcoming challenges together to make it in time to one of their concerts.
Remembering Charlie Watts (June 2, 1941 – August 24, 2021)
This reminiscent, heart-breaking journey through a bleak and cold snowscape by a sad, lone figure in a reindeer-pulled sleigh is brought to life by the animator Scuba Steve