Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell present KORT

From the City Slang blog: Born of a common love for their city and its traditions, this long-awaited collaboration from City Slang mainstays Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Cortney Tidwell seeks to portray their vision of Nashville through the music for which it is famous. Like Nashville, and indeed like country music itself, ‘Invariable Heartache’ draws [...]

Lambchop “Is a Woman” Tour

Lambchop to perform “Is a Woman” in its entirety. See them live in November: Germany, Poland, Denmark, Croatia, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland. “Lambchop’s sixth full length is an incredibly spare and haunting album — piano and delicately picked guitar vie for space with silence and otherworldly flourishes in Kurt Wagner’s most affecting batch of songs [...]

Blind Boys of Alabama Curate Lincoln Center Show

The Blind Boys of Alabama have agreed to curate 3 nights of music for the Lincoln Center Festival, which runs July 7 – 25, 2010, and also features theatre, dance, and opera performances. From the Lincoln Center website: “The Blind Boys invite a variety of artists from rock’s most cutting edges to bring their lyrical [...]

Kurt Adds Track to Mavis Staples Tribute

Mavis-TheAlbum.com Ashley Beedle’s MAVIS project was originally sparked three years ago when he and musical partner Darren Morris had an evening listening to Mavis Staples and the Staples Singers. The pair were so blown away, this led them to create an instrumental which became the inspiration for the MAVIS album. To Ashley, Mavis Staples and [...]