CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS RELEASE GENUINE NEGRO JIG
| CCD's first release on Nonesuch Records, produced by Joe Henry, has reached #6 on the Amazon chart, #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart (first ever for an African-American artist), and #5 on the Americana chart. Features in Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, USA Today, SPIN, Paste, and the NY Post |
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO WINS GRAMMY!
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Congratulations to Buckwheat Zydeco on winning the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album for the Alligator Records debut Lay Your Burden Down! Buckwheat has been nominated 5 times in 3 different categories over the past 30 years - this is his first win. |
CE ARTISTS RECEIVE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
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Rosanne Cash (w/ Bruce Springsteen) - “Sea Of Heartbreak” - Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Buckwheat Zydeco - Lay Your Burden Down - Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album Oumou Sangare - Seya - Best Contemporary World Music Album The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will be held January 31, 2010. Congratulations to our nominees! For more info visit grammy.com |
TOUMANI DIABATE MAKES NPR'S TOP 50 RECORDINGS OF THE DECADE
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The 2005 Grammy-winning album In the Heart of the Moon was recently named to NPR’s list of the decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings on All Songs Considered World Circuit is set to release the follow-up, Ali and Toumani, in February 2010. Toumani and his band will play his interpretations of the music of Ali Farka Toure in a series of special concerts starting in April 2010. |
ROSANNE CASH MARKS CAREER-BEST CHART POSITION
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WIDELY ACCLAIMED ALBUM NOTCHES NO. 5 COUNTRY DEBUT
& ENTERS THE BILLBOARD TOP 200 AT NO. 22
Riding a wave of critical praise, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash has achieved the highest chart position of her career with the debut of The List. The album, which Vanity Fair called “superb,” has notched a No. 5 Country debut, and entered The Billboard 200 at No. 22. Her highest previous ranking in the Top 200 was at No. 26 with the album Seven Year Ache in 1981. The List was also No. 1 on Amazon’s Bestseller’s list after its release on October 6, and reached No. 4 on iTunes Top Albums chart. |
SAMANTHA CRAIN WINS A NAMMY FOR SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
| On October 3, 2009 Samantha Crain (Choctaw Nation) won a Nammy for Songwriter Of The Year for her album The Confiscation: A Musical Novella. The Native American Music Awards or “The Nammys” is a national music awards show that celebrates and honors the outstanding achievements of today’s leading Native American artists. |
ROSANNE CASH THE LIST SNEAK PEEK
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Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash will release her 12th
studio album, entitled The List, on Manhattan Records on October 6th, 2009. This stunning work features
Cash’s contemporary interpretations of 12 classic songs culled from a list of essential country tunes that
her legendary father Johnny gave her in 1973, and filtered through her own unique, sophisticated
perspective.
Special guests include Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright. Known primarily for her stellar songwriting, Cash showcases her incredible voice on The List — her first-ever covers record. As a result, the album is Rosanne Cash like you’ve never heard her before as she embraces her heritage and sings for the pure love and beauty of these songs which have shaped who she is as an artist. The idea for The List came about while Cash was on tour promoting her 2006 studio album, the critically heralded, Grammy-nominated Black Cadillac — a reflective song cycle about the loss of her father, mother Vivian Liberto, and stepmother June Carter Cash. During the well-received multi-media event Black Cadillac: In Concert, Cash told audiences how, when she was 18, her father became alarmed that his daughter appeared to lack a deep understanding of country music (having been obsessed with The Beatles and steeped in Southern California rock and pop music). Johnny gave her a list of the “100 Essential Country Songs” and told her that it was her education and she should learn them all. “The list was far-ranging and thorough,” Cash says. “It was assembled from my father’s intuitive understanding of each critical juncture in the evolution of country music. There were old Appalachian folk ballads, and the songs of Jimmie Rodgers and Woody Guthrie. The influence of gospel and Southern blues were crucial. Then he segued into rockabilly and the birth of modern country music by way of Hank Williams, and up to the present, which was then 1973. He also included a couple of his own songs. I endeavored to learn them all and it was an education,” she says. “I looked to that list as a standard of excellence, and to remind myself of the tradition from which I come. This album enables me to validate the connection to my heritage rather than run away from it, and to tie all the threads together: past and future, legacy and youth, tradition the timelessness.” For more about Rosanne Cash and The List, please visit www.rosannecash.com. |
CE welcomes Pat McGee to the roster
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Concerted Efforts is proud to welcome a fan favorite like Pat McGee. Pat has built a solid following with 7 great albums and more than 14 years of touring. "We recently decided to change how we do things," says McGee. "I have been doing some solo, duo, and trio touring, in addition to full band dates. It keeps things interesting."
This shift and Pat's revolving live lineups will give fans some variations in the live setting that are sure to please. Latest release: "These Days (The Virginia Sessions)" via Rock Ridge Music. Available this summer for festivals & special events (full band, trio or solo acoustic). |