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Ben LaMar Gay's “Mestre Candeia’s Denim Hat,” from his 2021 album Open Arms to Open Us. An homage to improvisatory and rhythmic elements of the Brazilian “Partido Alto” tradition, the track sees Gay lay a Chicago-style free-jazz synth raga over a swinging, fractured march. The title is a nod to the insight and style of master sambista and partideiro Antônio Candeia Filho. Video by Andrea Rodea and Erik Mares of the Mexico City based Rhizomes Films.
Watch This VideoThe Black Keys celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Lonely Boy" with the story of how Derrick T. Tuggle’s infamous “main character vibes” became the theme of this El Camino single. El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is available in several formats, including a Super Deluxe edition of five vinyl LPs or four CDs that includes a remastered version of the original album; a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording; the BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session from 2012; a 2011 Electro-Vox session; an extensive photo book; a limited-edition poster and lithograph; and a “new car scent” air freshener.
Watch This VideoBen LaMar Gay's "Oh Great Be the Lake," from his 2021 album Open Arms to Open Us. The track is a classic ballad penned by Gay to his memories of jumping off the rocks into Lake Michigan on Chicago’s Southside. Video by Chris Strong.
Watch This VideoPunch Brothers perform "Church Street Blues," from their 2022 album, Hell on Church Street, at Blackbird Studios in Nashville. The record, the band’s reimagining of, and homage to, the late bluegrass great Tony Rice’s landmark solo album Church Street Blues, features a collection of songs by Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Bill Monroe, and others. Video directed by Alex Chaloff.
Watch This VideoBen LaMar Gay's "Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks on You," from his 2021 album Open Arms to Open Us, features OHMME singers Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart and, according to Gay, is "inspired by the preparation one makes for another when it’s time for them to enter or exit an embrace, a memory or a life." The video, filmed in Chicago and directed by Gay, features Dana Powell, Summer Powell, and Tiffany Merrills.
Watch This VideoThe Black Keys perform "Poor Boy a Long Way From Home," an R.L. Burnside tune on their 2021 album, Delta Kream. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are joined by Kenny Brown on guitar and Eric Deaton on bass, both long-time members of the bands of blues legends including Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. The video was directed by Ryan Nadzam and filmed in Mississippi at Jimmy Duck Holmes’ Blue Front Café, the oldest active juke joint in America.
Watch This VideoTracy Young's remix of k.d. lang's "Constant Craving" is the first ever official remix of lang’s Top 40 hit and winner of the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1993. Video by Robert Edridge-Waks. k.d. lang paper dolls by Katja Virtanen. Original "Constant Craving" video directed by Mark Romanek. Original building model by Sahra Abedini. Bar model by Vitor Costa. Liquor cabinet photo by Dave Shaver.
Watch This VideoEmmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers' Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert features the 1990 Nashville debut of the acoustic all-star group—Sam Bush, Roy Huskey Jr., Larry Atamanuik, Al Perkins, Jon Randall Stewart—at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The concert was recorded and shelved for over 30 years, and has now been unearthed to be released for the first time. The set features entirely different songs from the band's acclaimed live album At the Ryman, with music by A.P. Carter, Rodney Crowell, Ruth Franks, the Louvin Brothers, Doc Pomus, Paul Simon, Townes Van Zandt, and Harris herself.
Watch This VideoTake a look inside Randy Newman's Roll with the Punches: The Studio Albums (1979–2017). The eight-LP box set contains Randy Newman's latest seven studio albums—Born Again, Trouble in Paradise, Land of Dreams, Faust, Bad Love (on vinyl for the first time), Harps and Angels, and Dark Matter—on 140-gram vinyl, featuring original album jackets, lyric/credit sheets, and Faust demos.
Watch This VideoThe Black Keys perform "Stay All Night," one of several Junior Kimbrough tunes on their 2021 album, Delta Kream. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are joined by Kenny Brown on guitar and Eric Deaton on bass, both long-time members of the bands of blues legends including Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside. The video was directed by Ryan Nadzam and filmed in Mississippi at Jimmy Duck Holmes’ Blue Front Café, the oldest active juke joint in America.
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