High Road Touring

LISTEN HERE. Marc doesn’t consider himself a “folk music guy” but he cannot deny how strongly he responds to singer-songwriter Joan Shelley’s work. Joan talks with Marc about her Kentucky upbringing and how she’s careful to respect the roots of folk music while also infusing her work with a vulnerability and texture that is her ...

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WATER OUT NOVEMBER 15 VIA earMUSIC SELECT LIVE PERFORMANCES AT LARGO NOVEMBER 15, AND BIG EARS FESTIVAL MARCH 26-29  Today Joe Henry premieres new song and video, “In Time For Tomorrow,” watch/share HERE. Directed by Jacob Blickenstaff, the video shares the same intimacy as Henry’s recent video “3’40”” for the song “Bloom,” also directed by Blickenstaff. The ...

Song is the title track to an all-women tribute album to Waits arriving November 22nd [Rolling Stone] By JOSEPH HUDAK  “Well, the moon is broken and the sky is cracked, come on up to the house,” sings Natalie Closner-Schepman, mixing weariness with comfort in her band Joseph’s stark but reassuring rendition of Tom Waits’ song of ...

[The Music] Sampa The Great has no doubt just scored a stack of new fans overseas, with the Sydney-based rapper putting on one hell of a performance on Later… With Jools Holland. The singer-songwriter appeared on one the UK’s biggest music shows to perform OMG, taken from her recent LP, The Return, which dropped last month. Last week, Sampa ...