Happy Holidays From Swampland "Never be impatient with the ones who love you, It might be read more...
Funkadelic & Beyond At Black Gold Records A Brooklyn record store called Black Gold Records contains a read more...
Jonathan Wilson's Laurel Canyon Playlist Here's a
Swampland Salutes John Coltrane Today is the birthday of jazz legend
This May Be My Last Time Singing Tompkins Square's latest release is an amazing 3-CD set titled This May Be My Last Time read more...
Jonathan Wilson & Wilco Announce Fall Tour Dates
Warren Haynes In The Here And Now Warren Haynes just released his latest solo album,
The Chitlin' Circut: And The Road To Rock 'N' Roll Memphis writer Preston Lauterbach's first book--The Chitlin Circut: read more...
For our midweek duo of reviews, we have Dex Romweber Duo's Is that You in the Blue? and Nathan Moore's Dear read more...
For Monday, we present two Southern artists whose travels around their native region helped to define their diverse and eclectic read more...
(Mandolin Orange Music) Haste Make/Hard Hearted Stranger counts as the second album from Mandolin Orange. Andrew read more...
(Anti) Joe Henry's interesting musical journey coalesces on his latest album Reverie. These 14 original songs read more...
(Columbia) Originally released in 1968,
(Speranza Recordings) Greensboro, North Carolina, native Bruce Piephoff has been writing, recording and performing songs for read more...
(Merge Records) Eric Bachmann writes, records and performs under the name Crooked Fingers. A North Carolina native, Bachmann read more...
(Paradise of Bachelors) Said I Had A Vision revolves around the talented songwriter/preacher/producer David Lee from read more...
(Tompkins Square) Tompkins Square's latest release is an amazing 3-CD set titled This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw read more...
(Impulse!) The compositions on Stellar Regions were recorded five months before
(Impulse!) "The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful read more...
(Bella Union) Born in North Carolina,
The Preston Lauterbach Interview: Cultural Innards of the Chitlin' Circut By James Calemine Preston Lauterbach's first book--The Chitlin' Circut And The Road to Rock 'N' Roll-- traverses new ground in the history of American music literature. read more...
Rock and Roll Mommy by Shannon McNally I didn’t recognize the first signs of being pregnant. I mistook them for extreme road weariness. I was in the studio in Lafayette making a record with Mac Rebennack, (also known as Dr. John) and Bobby Charles. It was a record that I had looked read more...
Michael Houser: The Quiet Genius: Eight Years Gone By James Calemine Eight years ago Widespread Panic’s founding guitarist died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 40. It doesn’t seem like eight years since he’s been gone…
Welcome to the official information page for the GRITZ Stone Ground and Southern Music Compilation Series. We hope you will enjoy these free downloads, visit the band websites and order their albums. Please be sure to give us your feedback. We want to know what you think, as always. GRITZ has been the read more...
By Michael Buffalo Smith Editors Note: Be sure to download our FREE GRITZ Sampler CD for June that includes a track from Barry Lee Harwood as well as a track from Mainstream South! Download Here. BUFFALO: It’s read more...
by Dewayne Fields The Promise To Thomas benefit show took place on May 9th in Castle Hayne, N.C. The event benefited Thomas King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ryan King. Ryan is frontman and singer of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Band Tuesday's Gone, Ryan’s youngest son was born with a rare birth defect called Hirschsprungs Disease. Though read more...
NOTES ON THE STATE OF POETRY, Part Two by Diann Blakely Raleigh, NC The Carolinas are so crowded with poets--and so geographically sprawling--that it’s difficult to list or even group them all, much less distribute the requisite laurels. read more...
It’s Championship week in college basketball, and it’s a thrilling time to watch teams from smaller conferences earn their way into the Big Dance. While few believe that the regular season is what it used to be (especially when compared to college football), the hoops postseason is one of the top sporting events of the year.
Lance Ledbetter Interview Dust To Digital’s Divine Grace By James Calemine The story of Dust To Digital is a divine one. In the late 1990s, Lance Ledbetter set out to discover rare recordings of gospel music. His journey led read more...
The world’s biggest sporting contest is upon us, and the Southern storylines could not be more prevalent. With the Saints and the Colts meeting in the Super Bowl, Swampland fans should be thoroughly entertained by the matchup of an exciting New Orleans team read more...