I’m delighted to be working with my good friend Sandy at his site Evinyl.  Sandy and I have been friends since the Rhody days back in the early ‘80’s.  It was also a pleasure meeting Kevin, John and V...

Record Store Day is fast becoming one of my favorite days of the year.  It's really hard to beat. Labels release tons of new material, much of it published for the first time in any form. I've learned...

Karen Dalton was an American Folk / Blues artist known for her clawhammer banjo playing and unique vocal style. Her vocals are often compared to Billie Holliday.  Though she says she was more influenc...

JD McPherson's new Christmas album, Socks, is the funnest Christmas album I've ever heard.  The songs are all originals.  JD made a conscious effort to avoid Christmas cliches. So there's no jingle be...

Wide Awake is an awesome new album by indie rock band Parquet Courts.  It rocks, has great grooves and a whole lot to say. This is the first Parquet Courts album that I've heard. They have five more. ...

Kobo Town is yet another awesome world music band from this year's (aptly named) Blissfest.  I'm really don't know how to describe their unique sound, other than to just to call it an infectious, some...

Carl Rutherford was from a little town in West Virginia called "War".  You read that right, "War".  That's coal mining country. Carl spent much of his life as a coal miner.   Many of the songs on Turn...

Heartless Bastards' singer guitarist Erika Wennerstrom recently released her first solo album, Sweet Unknown. But Heartless Bastards fans need not fear.  The solo release does not signal the end of Th...

I really have nothing to add about the amazing Aretha Franklin that hasn't been said by others. Here is a video to her performing one of my all-time favorite songs The Weight with one of my all time ...

I first saw the Cajun band La Bande Feufollet on Friday, July 12 2002 at approximately 9:00 PM on the main stage at the aptly named Blissfest Music Festival (I have the program in front of me). They w...

Every year my son Wyatt and I are privileged to attend the aptly named Blissfest Festival of Roots and Traditional Music in northern Michigan.  Since I really want to avoid hyperbole, I’ll just say th...

Several weeks back I wrote a blog post about songs that have made me tear up.  Somehow I left out Long Black Veil, a sad hauntingly beautiful tale of a man who let himself be hanged for a murder that ...

Mississippi John Hurt was born in 1892 and mostly lived in obscurity as a sharecropper in Avalon,MS.  But thanks to Hurt’s recording of his song Avalon Blues, Hurt was easy to track down when the folk...

Drive-ByTruckers – Perilous Night The Truckers have just released a new single, Perilous Night.  It’s a straight ahead guitar driven rocker that serves as a great post election follow-up to their pol...

I found John Mooney’s Testimony album at a Salvation Army a few months ago.  Thrift stores can be a great place to discover music.  It’s a lot easier to take chances when the albums are cheap.  A few ...

Boz Scaggs – Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees was released in 1976 and catapulted Boz Scaggs onto the national rock scene.  While it’s slick production style makes it hard for me to listen to now, I did like ...

Van Morrison (Sir Van Morrison, that is) is unquestionably one of the singular musical talents of the 20/21’st century. A master vocalist, singer songwriter and arranger, he’s recorded countless (ok, ...

Two more great women songwriters have dominated my listening lately.   Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher (album rating – really, really, really good) In my blogpost In Honor of Women’s History Month, I wrote ...

I hope that you all had a great record store day on Saturday.  I certainly did.  FWIW, it featured the nicest weather of this awful spring.  Record store day at Evinyl was fantastic. Greg at DKFM Sho...

Record Store Day is Saturday, April 21. But perhaps it should be Monday, April 23.  Perhaps it should be a national holiday. The post office wouldn’t deliver mail and the banks would close.  Most peop...

The Dustbowl Revival – The Dustbowl Revival Dustbowl was a highlight from last summer's Blissfest Festival.  But the album didn’t make it to my turntable until after seeing them again a couple of wee...

Ok, so I left one particular song off of my first list of tearjerkers.   This song has got to be the most personal song I’ve ever heard.  And I had a very interesting experience with it.  So it gets i...

Songs That Have Made Me Cry (or at least well up a little bit)   I’m admittedly a pretty emotional guy.  I’ve been known to cry at movies.  And yes, there are songs that have moved me too.  Not like...

Since March is women’s history month, I think it’s a good time to say a few words about the three women that have dominated my listening as of late, namely Valerie June, Courtney Barnett and Eilen Jew...

The internet allowed for the discovery of new music like never before. Until now, that has only lowered the value that the public has placed on music. We're changing that. 

This launch has been some time in the making. What started as a sort of homage to the "record store vibe" has developed into a full blown listening space that we're happy to be rolling out to you today.