Besides Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller's new album features contributions from Dan Penn, Emmylou Harris and many others. Check the clips below.
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Buddy Miller's brand-new, self-titled record is the star of this week’s episode of The Buddy & Jim Show! Tune in to hear songs from the newly released album and to learn about how it was made, with contributions from Dan Penn, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Elizabeth Cook, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, Lee Ann Womack, McCrary Sisters, The War and Treaty, Austin and Jim Hoke, Fats Kaplin, Fred Eltringham, John Hinchey, Steve Fishell, Steve Herrman, Tim Lauer, and Viktor Krauss.
This episode of The Buddy & Jim Show premiered on Saturday, September 12 on Outlaw Country, SiriusXM with repeats on Sunday at 10 am ET & throughout the week.
You can check out Buddy’s Instagram page, @millerbudmusic, Buddy’s Facebook page, Jim’s Instagram page, @jimlauderdalemusic, and Jim’s Facebook page.
Listen to a couple of tracks below, including a great version of "Don't Look Back" with Dan Penn which Smokey Robinson originally wrote with his Miracles pal Ronald White for the Temptations in 1965 and later, Mick Jagger notably reworked with Peter Tosh.
Margo Price has a new podcast called Runaway Horses. a new single, "Been To The Mountain" and a memoir on the way.
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Margo Price is proud to announce her own Sonos Radio podcast, Runaway Horses. Beginning with an inspiring interview from Emmylou Harris, the series will see Price host raw, cathartic conversations with artists who aren’t afraid to break the mold and follow their own path. All six of the episodes in this first season are about the search for freedom through music and the shared human experience, featuring influences, heroes and contemporaries like Amythyst Kiah, Swamp Dogg, Bob Weir, Bettye LaVette and Lucius. New instalments of Runaway Horses will be released weekly for the next five Thursdays, and are available on Sonos Radio in the Sonos app, the Sonos Radio website and all major podcast platforms. Listen to Runaway Horses, and see a special on-camera, in-studio edition of the first episode with Emmylou Harris right here.
On the launch of Runaway Horses, which evolved out of an internet radio program she started live-streaming in the earliest days of the COVID-19 lockdown, Margo Price says, “The thing about runaway horses is that you can really never truly break them. They are incredibly unpredictable. You never know what they’re going to do next. I'm calling this show ‘Runaway Horses’ because wild freedom is exactly what I crave from music — I just want a complete and total release. I hope that the conversations on this show help you feel a sense of freedom, too.”
With the release of new single and video, "Been To The Mountain," Margo Price takes both a hard look at the past and a firm step into the future. She has been a lover, a queen and a drifter; a cowboy devil, a bride and a boxer; a child, mother and even a number. Over a flurry of fuzzed-out guitar, she belts about being on food stamps, rolling in dirty dollars and standing in the welfare line. But across five and half minutes of the song’s unflappable groove, underlined by organ, harpsichord, and a soul-stirring, spoken-word breakdown in the bridge, Price previews another stronger, freer side of herself that will soon be seen.
"Been To The Mountain" was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), written by Margo Price and Jeremey Ivey, and recorded during a blissful week they spent at Fivestar Studios in California’s Topanga Canyon. With a scorching sound that expands upon the rock n roll roots Price showcased on 2020’s widely acclaimed, That’s How Rumors Get Started, the song is accompanied by a mind-altering, mushroom trip of a music video directed by Courtney Hoffman and shot in Los Angeles.
Explains Margo, “Been To The Mountain is part one of an introspective trip into our subconscious. It is the perfect continuation of my search for freedom in my art and freedom in the modern age,” says Margo Price. “I have a lot of high hopes for this next chapter and truly believe this is the most exciting music I’ve ever made in the studio with my band. We have all grown so much, we operate like one single organism - it’s telepathic. Courtney Hoffman brought my wild visions to life with the help of an incredible cast and crew in the music video. I wanted the story’s hypothetical 8 to 12-hour window to feel like a mini-lifetime. We also wanted to portray how an intense psychedelic experience has the potential to become a spiritual experience, and how that can change your perception of the world around you.”
Check out the video for "Been To The Mountain" below.
In the coming months, Margo Price will continue a busy year of touring with performances at Sacred Rose, Born and Raised and other festival appearances, plus Red Rocks with Wilco, and Farm Aid, where she recently became the first-ever female artist elected to the Board of Directors. She will also embark on a national book tour throughout October and November, in support of her forthcoming, debut memoir, Maybe We’ll Make It. Out October 4 on University of Texas Press, it tells a story of loyalty, loss, grief and forgiveness, from moving to Nashville with $57, to losing one of her newborn twin boys, pawning her wedding ring and facing rejection by almost every record label in town, to eventually reclaiming her power, freeing herself from substance abuse, and fighting for the opportunity to be herself in the music business. “Margo’s book hits you right in the gut – and the heart – just like her songs,” says Willie Nelson.
MARGO PRICE ON TOUR:
8/26 - Bridgeview, IL - Sacred Rose Festival
9/4 - Weston, CO - Caveman Music Festival
9/8 - Park City, UT - Park City Song Summit
9/14 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Wilco
9/17 - Pryor Creek, OK - Born and Raised
9/23 - Lewisburg, WV - Healing Appalachia
9/24 - Raleigh, NC - Farm Aid
10/4 - Nashville, TN - Grimey’s*
10/5 - New York, NY - P&T Knitwear*
10/6 - Brooklyn, NY - Greenlight Bookstore*
10/7 - York, PA - White Rose Music Festival
10/15-16 - Nashville, TN - Southern Festival of Books*
10/17 - Lexington, KY - Joseph Beth Booksellers*
10/18 - Louisville, KY - Carmichael’s Bookstore*
10/20 - Traverse City, MI - National Writer’s Series*
10/22 - Iowa City, IA - Prairie Lights*
10/23 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Humanities Festival*
10/24 - Winnetka, IL - The Book Stall*
10/27 - Live Oak, FL - Suwannee Hulaween
11/1 - San Francisco, CA - Green Apple Books on the Park*
"Our music video for the brand new song "Emmylou" was directed by the amazing Maximilla Lukacs. We shot it at Joshua Tree National Park, a truly magical place, on Gram Parsons' birthday. The song is a tribute to some of our favorite country musicians - Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, June Carter and Johnny Cash. It's about the power of singing together with someone you love." - First Aid Kit
1. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
2. Nat Birchall - Sacred Dimension
3. Alela Diane & Wild Divine - Alela Diane & Wild Divine
4. The Greg Foat Group - Dark Is The Sun
5. The Walkabouts - Travels In The Dustland
6. Heidi Happy - Hiding With The Wolves
7. The Black Keys - El Camino
8. Tristen - Charlatans At The Garden Gate
9. Merle Haggard - Working In Tennessee
10. Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
11. Austin Peralta - Endless Planets
12. The Dirtbombs - Party Store
13. Boubacar Traore - Mali Denhou
14. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest 15. The Bo-Keys - Got To Get Back!
16. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
17. Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain
18. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
19. The Fleshtones - Brooklyn Sound Solution
20. Grimble Grumble - September Sun
21. John Paul Keith - The Man That Time Forgot
22. Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening
23. Buddy Miller - The Majestic Silver Strings
24. Diana Panton - To Brazil With Love
25. The Reigning Sound - Abdication... For Your Love
26. Tex Perkins - Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses
27. Bombino - Agadez
28. Dave Alvin - Eleven Eleven
29. The Bats - Free All The Monsters
30. OFF! - The First Four EPs
31. The Bevis Frond - The Leaving Of London
32. Tom T. Hall - A Gift From Tom T. Hall
33. Alex Pangman - 33
34. The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Heirloom Music
35. Nicola Conte - Love & Revolution
36. The Pining - The Pining
37. Phil Ranelin – Perseverance
38. Vieux Farka Toure – The Secret
39. Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming / The Instrumentals
40. Tom Russell - Mesabi
41. Austra - Feel It Break
42. White Denim - D
43. Bruce Peninsula - Open Flames
44. Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizon Ensemble – The Prairie Prophet
45. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - From Africa With Fury: Rise
46. JD McPherson - Signs & Signifiers
47. Jack Oblivion - Rat City
48. Psychic Paramount - II
49. Matthew Shipp – Art of the Improviser
50. Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread 51. Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship
52. JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound - Want More
53. Connie Smith - Long Line Of Heartaches
54. Jennifer Castle - Castlemusic 55. My Darling Clementine - How Do You Plead?
56. Hanni El Khatib - Will The Guns Come Out? 57. Booker T. Jones - The Road From Memphis
58. Jeff The Brotherhood - We Are The Champions
59. Ken Vandermark's Predella Group - Strade d'Acqua
60. Limes - Tarantula
61. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
62. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
63. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
64. Seu Jorge – Músicas para Churrasco, Vol. 1
65. Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
66. Daniel Romano - Sleep Beneath The Willow
67. Meg Baird - Seasons On Earth
68. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
69. Bio Ritmo – La Verdad
70. Moon Duo - Mazes
71. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
72. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
73. Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses
74. Krallice - Diotima
75. The Ettes - Wicked Will 76. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
77. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
78. Quintron - Sucre Du Sauvage
79. The Warped 45s - Matador Sunset
80. David Kilgour - Left By Soft
81. This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark 82. Slaid Cleaves - Sorrow & Smoke 83. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi — Rome
84. Purling Hiss - Dizzy Polizzy 85. Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO
86. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Cotonou Club
87. Royal Headache - Royal Headache
88. Wild Beasts - Smother
89. Shelby Earl - Burn The Boats
90. Fatoumata Diawara - Fatou
91. Yuck - Yuck
92. Iceage - New Brigade
93. Nick Lowe - The Old Magic
94. Apache Dropout - Apache Dropout 95. Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey
96. The Dirty Streets - Movements 97. The Mekons - Ancient and Modern 98. Sonny & The Sunsets - Hit After Hit
99. Glen Campbell - Ghost On A Canvas
100. Ikebe Shakedown — Ikebe Shakedown
On this day back in 1941, Guy Clark was born in Monahans, Texas and to celebrate the archetypal Americana song craftsman's 70th birthday, Austin’s Music Road Records is releasing the celeb stacked tribute This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark – on December 6. Hey, better a month late than never, right?
Produced by Tamara Saviano and Clark co-writer of choice Shawn Camp, the double-disc set includes 30 tracks by 33 accomplished artists who are either longtime Clark pals (Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, Gary Nicholson) or those who wish they were, after having grown up on his unforgettable tunes.
Volume 1
1. That Old Time Feeling – Rodney Crowell
2. Anyhow I Love You – Lyle Lovett
3. All He Wants Is You – Shawn Colvin
4. Homeless – Shawn Camp
5. Broken Hearted People – Ron Sexsmith
6. Better Days – Rosanne Cash
7. Desperadoes Waiting For A Train – Willie Nelson
8. Baby Took A Limo To Memphis – Rosie Flores
9. Magdalene – Kevin Welch
10. Instant Coffee Blues – Suzy Bogguss
11. Homegrown Tomatoes – Ray Wylie Hubbard
12. Let Him Roll – John Townes Van Zandt II
13. The Guitar – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
14. Cold Dog Soup – James McMurtry
15. Worry B Gone – Hayes Carll
Volume 2
1. Dublin Blues – Joe Ely
2. Magnolia Wind – Emmylou Harris & John Prine
3. The Last Gunfighter Ballad – Steve Earle
4. All Through Throwing Good Love After Bad – Verlon Thompson
5. The Dark – Terri Hendrix
6. LA Freeway – Radney Foster
7. The Cape – Patty Griffin
8. Hemingway’s Whiskey – Kris Kristofferson
9. Texas Cookin’ – Gary Nicholson, Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien
10. Stuff That Works – Jack Ingram
11. Randall Knife – Vince Gill
12. Texas 1947 – Robert Earl Keen
13. Old Friends – Terry Allen
14. She Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – The Trishas
15. My Favorite Picture of You – Jerry Jeff Walker
Unlikely as it may seem, long before Michael Bate made his name in this country skewering the rich, quasi-famous and the political elite as the co-founder of the Ottawa edition of notorious scandal sheet Frank, the British-born bane of Byron Muldoon was a stringer for Canadian Press when not playing steel guitar.
Stranger still, while on his way up (or down) the media ladder, junior reporter Bate somehow managed to score an interview with Gram Parsons in March of 1973, two months after the release of his influential solo debut GP (Reprise/Warner) featuring his new discovery Emmylou Harris. Bate's fortuitous encounter in Boston proved to be among the last recorded conversations with the doomed country-rock pioneer as Parsons tragically died in Joshua Tree, California from an overdose of morphine and tequila just six months later on September 19, 1973.
Now that Bate's shit-disturbing days with Frank are well behind him, he has decided to parlay his 30 minute interview of a lifetime into a low-key musical production – sans fancy choreography and Broadway cliches – called Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons. While there's no shortage of traumatic events packed into Parsons short life to make for an epic tragedy worthy of the ancient Greeks – aside from the whole bizarre body snatching and ritual burning scenario that later unfolded – the production's success or failure will ultimately hinge on how effectively Parsons' timeless musical legacy is conveyed. It appears that Bate is mindful of that fact and astutely selected a couple of roots ringers of the appropriate age to play the vocally-demanding parts, namely Ottawa-based singer/songwriter Anders Drerup of Silver Creek in the lead role with Kelly Prescott (the daughter of Canuck country royals Randall Prescott and Tracey Brown) as Emmylou Harris.
Of course it's one thing to be able to hit the notes and quite another to deliver those classic songs with the sort of chemistry which marks the truly great duet pairings. No one will ever have the magic Parsons and Harris shared, that's a given, but the live recordings from a recent Grievous Angel performance at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa sound very promising (check the download links below).
You'll get a chance to see whether any sparks fly when Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons makes it's Toronto debut at Hugh's Room (2261 Dundas West) on Saturday, June 26 at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $25 advance and $27.50 at the door.
