by nf, 24 Jun 11:45
Black Twigs are honored, delighted, gratified to be back at the Floyd Country Store's dance jamboree this Friday, June 26. We've got the 7:30 p.m. slot, with the Glory Road Singers before and Clyde Williams and his band after -- program is for fiddles, banjos, boards, bones, even a guitar ---------- and the whirling of the (old-time) dervishes, of course; a raucous petition flung to moon and earth simultaneously; a split-note serenade; a song of straw and dust turned wild.
Yep, see here for more --
by Banjo, King Of The Sea Monkeys, 16 Jun 21:35
Just added an experiment to the site. See that bar at the bottom? You can sign in to join our Google "Friend Connect" community using a Google, Yahoo, or AOL account, or any OpenID if that's your thing. Once you've done that, you can comment on these news posts, and review items in the catalog. If this proves popular, we might expand it to other parts of the site. So give it a try, eh?
by nf, 03 Jun 01:11
At long, long, long, long, long, long, long (and so forth) long last, the Spiral Joy Band "Pleasure is the Headlight" double LP is properly pressed and issued. This is four sides of right living, or prescriptions therefore, or attempts thereof, or excues there from, pressed down into 180g vinyl, wrapped in a rather staggering bit of Emily Keown artwork, decorated with a gatefold photo from the recording of the last track, and ready to fly to yr turntable...........NOW. Thanks Uzu Audio for seeing the project through. It's worth it, of course, but it did take a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, yah, you know it --
by nf, 20 May 23:25
The new Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers album edges into reality as a heavy-weight, exquisitely pressed, raucously squalling vinyl platter -- Klang Industries release No. 8, for those keeping track, recorded in Ironto and featuring all manner of banjo, fiddle, harmonica, and percussion wrapped around Jack's righteously furious finger-picking. The music draws from raggy blues, fiddle stomps, gospel and more (including a couple Rose originals), pushed into some new and personal alignments --
See the catalog page for details
by nf, 30 Apr 00:25
Learned this evening (April 30) that musician, writer, dancer, painter, gardener Mick Simmons died in his sleep Monday night at his and his wife's home in Rocky Mount. He was a great and perplexing soul whose talents and contributions were many. He had lived in New York City in the late 1980s and was friends with hip hop figures and DJs from that era. Closer to his Virginia home, he loved to wander through fiddlers conventions flat-footing to whatever grabbed his ear. His percussion was featured on five Klang-related releases: the "United Supreme Council" LP from the Pelt/Rake ensemble, with which he performed several times; Pelt's "New Delhi Blues" on the "Techoed" album; Pelt's "For Michael Hannahs" album, on which he played on "Goodwin Ferry Sunrise" (right hand pic below, taken by Mikel Dimmick, is from a performance of that song in Floyd, Va., in 1997 probably); the Spiral Joy Band's "Lullabies for Jeff Dean" in a live recording of Mick's only appearance with the band; and on the Umlauted Roman Numeral V compilation with his band Petey & the Hellcats, a "country & eastern" ensemble with which he played for 20 or so years. We're going to miss you, Mick. We already miss you.
