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Daryl Hall and Dave Stewart
D. from Daryl Hall (in collaboration with his beach buddy Dave Stewart) is in record stores now, on CD, Vinyl and a limited edition Indie VInyl Variant. Check the bins or website of your favorite store, or check out the link in our bio to find stores and buy directly!
GLASS ANIMALS LISTENING PARTIES
SWAMP DOGG'S NEW ALBUM
Swamp Dogg�s new album Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St is coming out on Friday 5/31!!�
�Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music,� says Swamp Dogg, �but it came from Black people. The banjo, the washtub, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name.�
Blackgrass, Swamp Dogg�s remarkable new album, is no history lesson, though. Produced by Ryan Olson (Bon Iver, Poli�a) and recorded with an all-star band including Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas, Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, and Kenny Vaughan, the collection is a riotous blend of past and present, mixing the sacred and the profane in typical Swamp Dogg fashion as it blurs the lines between folk, roots, country, blues, and soul. The tracklist is an eclectic one�brand new originals and vintage Swamp Dogg classics sit side by side with reimaginings of �70s R&B hits and timeless �50s pop tunes�but the performances are thoroughly cohesive, filtering everything through a progressive Appalachian lens that nods to tradition without ever being bound by it. Special guests like Margo Price, Jenny Lewis, Justin Vernon, and The Cactus Blossoms all add to the excitement here, but it�s ultimately the 81-year-old Swamp Dogg�s delivery�sly and playful and full of genuine joy and ache�that steals the show. The result is a record that�s as reverent as it is raunchy, a collection that challenges conventional notions of genre and race while at the same time celebrating the music that helped make Swamp Dogg the beloved iconoclast he�s known as today.
RECORD COLLECTING WITH... BILLIE EILISH
As we get ready to add the brand new album from Billie Eilish to our collection, we asked Billie to tell us a little bit about the records in HER collection, where they came from, and what they mean to her.
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is in record stores next Friday, May 17.
Pre-order at your favorite record store or CLICK HERE to find one!
Thanks for the show and tell, Billie!