Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio announced a new album, Cold As Weiss, set for release on February 11, 2022 via Colemine Records. The Seattle-based soul-jazz trio led by multi-talented musician Delvon Lamarr also shared the single, “Pull Your Pants Up.”

Cold As Weiss follows DLO3’s 2021 album I Told You So, which topped the Contemporary Jazz Album chart and cracked the Top 5 of the Jazz Album chart and Tastemaker Album chart. While drummer Dan Weiss had joined the group when I Told You So was announced, the new album Cold As Weiss, as the title suggests, is DLO3’s first release with the drummer.

The new single, “Pull Your Pants Up,” however, was humorously inspired by guitarist Jimmy James. Delvon Lamarr explained in a press release:

“On every DLO3 tour, at some point, we have to tell Jimmy James to pull his pants up,” Lamarr said. “After being blinded by his backside over and over and over again, we decided to write a song about it!”

Listen to DLO3 on “Pull Your Pants Up” below:

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Ranky Tanky’s Spring 2021 set from NPR’s Mountain Stage will be part of a special encore rebroadcast starting this Friday, December 17th. See below for local airtimes and stations.

Ranky Tanky have achieved many firsts for South Carolina’s West African-rooted Gullah community since their formation, earning yet another milestone at the 2019 GRAMMY Awards by taking home the Best Regional Roots Album prize for their sophomore release, Good Time. The album, which also hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart, combines songs carried down through generations in the Sea Islands of the Southeastern United States with the band’s own original compositions in the Gullah tradition. In Ranky Tanky’s hands, this style of music has been described as “soulful honey to the ears” (NPR) while being covered by the New York Times, NPR’s Fresh Air and The TODAY Show, who had the band on for a performance.

Photo credit: Brian Blauser/Mountain Stage

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Grammy-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell has announced a new album called Send for Me, due to be released in the spring of 2022.

Russell has established herself as a prolific vocalist, working as a backup vocalist with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Diana Ross, Madonna, David Bowie and Steely Dan before beginning an impressive solo career in 2006.

The new album follows her 2019 release Alone Together, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for best jazz vocal album and landed at No. 1 on JazzWeek’s year-end chart.

Russell’s eighth album as bandleader, Send for Me, features more than a dozen newly recorded tunes she carefully curated. “Songs that inspire or touch me in some way. When I find a song I like, it haunts me until I learn it,” Russell says. “The album is an invitation, welcoming the audience to come along on a journey.”

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Congrats to Twisted Pine, who took home “Americana Artist of the Year” at the 2021 Boston Music Awards! This is their second time receiving this honor, after winning in 2018.

Released in the Summer of 2020, Right Now is a cosmic map of the new and glistening journeys of Twisted Pine, the Boston-based spacecraft of a band that was once bluegrass but is now “something else, a wider version of a stringband, boundary jumpers akin to outfits like Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and Crooked Still [The Boston Globe].” The soundscape for this full-length sophomore release has all the sass of zero-gravity pop; the grooves of 2 a.m. funk jams; the astral flute and shoobedoos of 70s radio. “Punch Brothers meets Jean-Luc Ponty and Ian Anderson [Jethro Tull],” writes Folk Alley of the instrumental track “Amadeus Party” — and yet the lyric narratives are packed with the elements of earthling mountain music. “Right Now” aims to shut the careless mouth of an ex. “Papaya” whispers, “Don’t just pass me right by.”

“Dreamaway” describes a faith that comes and goes. “Don’t Come Over Tonight” demands a night off from a guy’s opinions. The covers pay homage to Father John Misty and Tex Logan — two points that intersect the plane of this exquisite world. Twisted Pine is Kathleen Parks (Newburgh, NY) on fiddle and lead vox; Dan Bui (Houston, TX) on mandolin; Chris Sartori (Concord, MA) on bass; and Twisted Pine’s newest addition, Anh Phung (Chilliwack, BC) on flute. Everybody sings. Twisted Pine plays under the influence of explorers Jerry Douglas (with whom the band occasionally tours), Bela Fleck, Sierra Hull, Billy Strings, The Wood Brothers, and Lake Street Dive and Crooked Still (label mates at Signature Sounds Recordings). Right Now was produced by Twisted Pine and by Dan Cardinal at Dimension Sound in Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA. 

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The Infamous Stringdusters released new single “Hard Line.” The song is the lead track on the jamgrass quintet’s forthcoming Toward The Fray studio album.

Toward The Fray is due out via Americana Vibes on February 18. Previously, the band, whose 2021 LP A Tribute To Bill Monroe earned a Grammy nomination, shared the album’s title track.

Multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Garrett weighed in on the new single. “This is a song about taking a hard line stance on something, and being so dug in you can’t ever change your mind,” explained Garrett. “What a beautiful thing it might be if we could all come to the table, so to speak, once again and have meaningful and truthful discussions about the things going on in our world.” Jeremy Garrett spoke about Toward The Fray and more on the latest episode of the Inside Out With Turner & Seth podcast.

Stream The Infamous Stringdusters’ “Hard Line” below:

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