I met Sarah Jarosz tonight after her show. Yes she is awesome, and yes I am a nerd.
walk with me // memoryhouse
FREE download: amazon mp3
Memoryhouse’s new album The Slideshow Effect is available now via Amazon and iTunes.
we don’t eat // james vincent mcmorrow
download: amazon mp3 | itunes
James Vincent McMorrow’s latest EP We Don’t Eat features a cover of Steve Winwood’s Higher Love and Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game, as well as live performances of two tracks from his Early In The Morning album. The EP is now available via Amazon and iTunes.
P.S. Download the title track for FREE through Amazon.
idioms // little sur ft annika zee
More music from Little Sur is available via iTunes. Make sure to also check out and follow their tumblr and Soundcloud pages for band updates.
love little sur.
Soundcheck: Scoring Downton Abbey
New York fans: 2pm on WNYC.
Just finished first season last night.
The Master from Flint Hill: Earl Scruggs
Some nights he had the stars of North Carolina shooting from his fingertips. Before him, no one had ever played the banjo like he did. After him, everyone played the banjo like he did, or at least tried. In 1945, when he first stood on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and played banjo the way no one had ever heard before, the audience responded with shouts, whoops, and ovations. He performed tunes he wrote as well as songs they knew, with clarity and speed like no one could imagine, except him. When the singer came to the end of a phrase, he filled the theatre with sparkling runs of notes that became a signature for all bluegrass music since. He wore a suit and Stetson hat, and when he played he smiled at the audience like what he was doing was effortless. There aren’t many earthquakes in Tennessee, but that night there was.
- For our Culture Desk blog, Steve Martin writes about banjo legend Earl Scruggs: http://nyr.kr/yyCvax. Click play to listen to Flatt and Scruggs’s famous Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
