BIRDLAND VCAST A HIT WITH THE BAND

It looks as though Barry & Craig’s weekly Birdland picks Vcast is starting to get the attention of musicians all over the world.

Imagine our surprise when we got the following comment on You Tube about our most recent Vcast the other day:

Ringo Cortina Fellas, thanks for the Cornershop Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast mention. We appreciate it from here at Cornershop HQ. Aplomb is the word that Tjinder thinks you navigate your process. Keep up the good work – without you there would be no record industry left. Ringo

The Tijinder he’s referring to is Cornershop founding member Tijinder Singh. Evidently Craig’s review of Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast caught the attention of the band’s corporate headquarters in the UK and they were nice enough to send us some love. So thanks, Ringo.

Well guys, if and when you make it to the Hampton Roads area, we’re extending an invitation to the store for a little mini-concert. You guys would definitely rock the house!

Jonny Lang

Jonny Lang started playing the guitar at the age of twelve, after his father took him to see the Bad Medicine Blues Band, one of the few blues bands in Fargo, North Dakota. Lang soon started taking guitar lessons from Ted Larsen, the Bad Medicine Blues Band’s guitar player. Several months after Lang began, he joined the Bad Medicine Blues Band, which was then renamed Kid Jonny Lang & The Big Bang.   Read more...

The Infamous Stringdusters, Things That Fly, Country Music Examiner

The Infamous Stringdusters, one of the most-yapped-about bluegrass outfits to surface in recent years, unleashed the group’s much-anticipated third CD, Things That Fly, earlier this week to nothing short of critics’ raves and even a “masterpiece” declaration.

Recorded in the Charlottesville, Va., studio dubbed Haunted Hollow, withGary Paczosa (Nickel Creek, Dixie Chicks, Tim O’Brien) on board as engineer and co-producer, the ‘Dusters lineup did things they’d never done before this time around.

For instance, guitarist Andy Falcoput his hidden keyboard talents to use on smoldering organ parts; voices and instruments alike were splashed with reverb; and, though the band has no shortage of quality lead singers in fiddlerJeremy Garrett, dobro player Andy Hall and upright-bassist Travis Book, a few fine-singing friends—country standout Dierks Bentley, Americana songwriter-chanteuse Sarah Siskind and Crooked Still frontwoman Aoife O’Donovan—dropped by to add novel tones.

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Anders Osborne, American Patchwork

Grammy-award winning guitarist/singer/ songwriter Anders Osborne blends blues, rock and roll and New Orleans funk and R&B to create a distinctive genre-bending style that has captivated music fans and fellow performers alike. He wrote “Watch The Wind Blow By,” a #1, million-selling country hit for Tim McGraw and two tracks on bluesman Keb’ Mo’s Grammy-winning album Slow Down. Brad Paisley and Jonny Lang have also recorded his songs, and he wrote and performs (with Ivan Neville) the title track to the not-yet-released Kate Hudson film Earthbound. Anders’ new release, American Patchwork is an intense, soul-stirring album ranging from gentle ballads to burning rockers, including some truly amazing guitar playing. Joining Osborne is a top-flight ensemble of the Crescent City’s finest, including Stanton Moore, the Stanton Moore Trio’s Robert Walter and Corrosion Of Conformity’s Pepper Keenan.

TRACKLISTING:

1. On the Road to Charlie Parker
2. Echoes of My Sins
3. Got Your Heart
4. Killing Each Other
5. Acapulco
6. Darkness at the Bottom
7. Standing with Angels
8. Love Is Taking Its Toll
9. Meet Me in New Mexico
10. Call on Me

Barenaked Ladies, All In Good Time, Blogcritics.com

The Barenaked Ladies have always had a strange appeal for me. Ever since I heard my father do a rendition of “If I Had A Million Dollars” on an 12-string acoustic guitar in the 1990s, I knew there was something there. And ever since 2003′s Everything to Everyone and their song “Another Postcard” (with chimpanzees…), their crazy view on the world managed to bury itself in my brain. Plus, as my daughters say, the band name alone is worth a listen because “they’re not ladies and why would they be bare naked?”   Read more...

TOM PETTY BRINGS HIS MOJO JUNE 15

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are releasing  their twelfth studio album “Mojo” on June 15. “Mojo” is Petty & the Heartbreaker’s first studio release since 2002′s “The Last DJ” and is said to be recorded live off the floor, with no overdubs, bringing back an aesthetic reminiscent of his work with his early band, Mudcrutch.

The band is scheduled to begin touring on in Oakland, Calif.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers will spend the summer playing amphitheaters and arenas, with a host of veteran supporting acts as well as newer openers. ZZ Top, Crosby Stills & Nash, Drive by Truckers and My Morning Jacket will appear at various dates. Joe Cocker will serve as the opener on the first 7 dates.

Birdland will have “Mojo” bright and early on the morning of June 15. Stayed tuned in to birdlandmusic.com for updates.

Shelby Lynne, Tears, Lies & Alibis, NY Daily News

Shelby Lynne sings in quick, blunt bursts, suggesting the kind of jabs you don’t see coming but which can drive you to your knees.
By barely coloring a note, and rarely extending it, Lynne communicates the directness of someone addicted to telling the truth, no matter whom it hurts.

Small wonder she has arisen as one of country’s toughest and most uncompromising stars. Lynne’s not unlike a distaff answer to the outlaw country icons of the ’70s. Think: Waylon Jennings in drag.

Twenty years into her career – and 10 beyond her oddly timed Grammy for “Best New Artist” – Lynne seems to be getting only more honed and headstrong. The story behind her riveting new album proves the point.   Read more...

Shelby Lynne

Shelby Lynne has a whole bunch of reasons why she’s stoked to be putting out her new album,Tears, Lies, and Alibis, through her own Everso Records after a lengthy stint in the major-label system. Chief among them, though, may be this: “Now I don’t have to deal with some asshole who’s scared to put half a titty on an album cover.” (Just to clarify, the cover of Alibis does not depict half—or indeed any portion of—a titty. But I Am Shelby Lynne, her 1999 breakthrough, did.)

“This is my baby—it’s mine,” the singer continues, on the phone from her home near Palm Springs. “I mean, I could pull some Erykah Badu shit and go half-naked in the street, and I don’t have to ask a fucking soul, ’cause it’s my money. I’m not sitting here waiting on the Big, Fat ‘No’ from the record company.”   Read more...

Bodeans, Mr. Sad Clown

Rock veterans the BoDeans took a DIY approach to its new album, “Mr. Sad Clown,” on 429 Records.
“If we had any theory behind it, it was something like…’Let’s just do what we do,’ ” Kurt Neumann says of the 15-track set that he and partner Sam Llanas recorded at Neumann’s home stud

io near Austin, Texas. “Sam’s opinion was he didn’t want to hire anyone else to do anything — so that left me to do a lot of the stuff!”   Read more...

Cornershop, Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast

Cornershop are as the Times and most major papers have put it, the most treasured of British institutions, yet they are amazingly one of the most neglected institutions England has ever known too. Not for them to be merely a pigeon hole in the staff room, they always cut it their own way, constantly changing with every release, burning Morrissey pictures outside EMI to deliver a message that all youth must do, a message that is as important then as it is getting again today, kicking aside their fellow asian crop of bands with a simple kick forward, and such forward thought gave rise to some of the best collaborations and relations ever made. Whether that was with John Peel or Jon Savage, The Light Surgeons or sleeve art by Nick Edwards, Allen Ginsberg or Otis Clay, Larry Coryell or Noel Gallagher, in Preston Lancashire or London, or Paris or NYC, constructing their videos with the likes of Prashant Bhargava or Douglas Avery, studio production by the likes of The Automator or their own Tjinder Singh, working with charities from Mind to Christian Aid, making diversion to record their epic classic Clinton LP, when everyone warned against it, to then come back with the equally classic Handcream for A Generation, to further flip the record with recordings featuring Bubbley Kaur. The fact that they have stuck to their guns has led to the reduction in how popular they are yet to come, for there is still no one doing anything like them. The name ‘Tjinder Singh sounds like bells do ring’, and his voice is ‘unspun silk’ – not bad descriptions for a man whose name translates to Fire. The heat is on your ears, and their forthcoming album ‘Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast’ shows no let up in the program.