From Albion and Beyond

Some of the many fine performers who will be gracing stages around Fayetteville AR this week during the 4th annual Fayetteville AR Roots Festival...

3 Penny Acre - Rag And Bone - Rag And Bone - Second String Record
Still On The Hill - Ballad of Coin Harvey - Ozark A Celebration In Song - stillonthehill.com
Iris DeMent - The Night I Learned How Not To Pray - Sing The Delta - Flariella Records


Mary Gauthier - Last Of The Hobo Kings - Live At Blue Rock - marygauthier.com

Brand new releases tonight including Toronto-based quartet New Country Rehab (from the Hog Town district of Toronto so they must be eligible for honorary Arkansas citizenship!); the mellifluous Martyn Wyndham-Read who performed for Little Rock Folk Club in the early 90s; Chicago-born Nashville-domiciled Buddy Mondlock whose latest 13 track CD exemplifies craftsmanship in all departments; a 30 track treasury of banjo music from Smithsonian Folkways featuring long gone and current giants of the genre including Doc Watson, various Seegers, Hobart Smith et al; singer-songwriter and veteran Alis

All brand new releases this week including  a double CD from singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Richard Thompson who made his Little Rock debut May 3rd 1989 at the long gone Arkajun House which led to the founding of Little Rock Folk Club shortly thereafter; a double CD from multi-instrumentalist Martin Simpson, who has added serious songwriter to his already impressive resume; Canadian Ottawa Valley traditional style fiddle virtuoso, and step dancer, April Verch who adds a Loretta Lynn song to her latest CD which al