Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
As Music City haunt The High Watt began to fill with attendees eager to experience Wisconsin-based bluegrass band Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, the lights above shone down onto the empty stage and illuminated a lone microphone in the center. The five-piece took their positions around the center, tuned up, and jumped right in with a quick-pacing bluegrass... Continue Reading →
The adage "there's no school like the old school" is a familiar one, and for good reason. Just like that expression has withstood the test of time, so have the endearing sounds of jangly banjo, acoustic guitar-picking, and old-fashioned southern harmonies. Ontario’s two-time Juno award-winning Americana singer-songwriter Jenny Whiteley has a simple, but powerful old-school... Continue Reading →
Trevor Sensor is a young man with an old soul. He’s also a young man who possesses a voracious sense of curiosity, which is being amply fed as he travels the country; armed with his trusty guitar Sensor is providing opening support for folk rock band The Staves on a tour which will bring him... Continue Reading →
You might not be familiar with The Staples Singers, but you're bound to be familiar with their music--the Grammy award winning gospel R&B family band featured patriarch Pops Staples and his children, Cleotha, Pervis, and Mavis (their sister, Yvonne, joined the ensemble when their brother, Pervis, was drafted into the U.S. Army). They are best... Continue Reading →
“We’re a party band. We’re there to get wild and dance and stir things up. We don’t sing a bunch of ballads. The goal is to crank things up and make people have a good time,” says Will Wadsworth, singing drummer and founder of Los Angeles-based roots collective The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, who are... Continue Reading →
The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers will bring their wild, soulful energy to Nashville on Tuesday, June 21st, and Mother Church Pew is proud to present the festivities! The collective was formed in 2010 by roommates Will Wadsworth and Jeremy Horton, who decided to host jam sessions and gospel sing-alongs in their home--a popular monthly occurrence which... Continue Reading →
Nate Currin, a troubadour in the truest sense of the term, is touring around the country on his modern-day horse—an RV—which he saddled up and rode into Nashville recently to support the release of his newest album, The Madman and The Poet. Currin, accompanied by his trusty guitar and an able band, began the set... Continue Reading →
“I keep wanting to call myself The Blue-Eyed Goombah because I’m a Sicilian that makes dark-edged psychedelic soul,” says internationally acclaimed veteran songstress Nicole Atkins with a laugh. “When people think of blue-eyed soul, they think of music that’s very white and measured, and my music is everything but.” The singer, who is working on her next... Continue Reading →
"We get along; I think when we were starting out, we knew that it was going to take us a while to get where we wanted to be, we had to grow into it. It’s a slowly evolving thing. The kind of songs we were trying to write, it takes time, and we’ve always known... Continue Reading →
“It’s not enough to play for 9 hours straight, it has to be in a bunch of different locations,” says prolific songcrafter Alex Dezen of his plan to play his entire 115-song catalog all over Nashville on Thursday, February 11th. Dezen’s new self-titled solo album is set for release on February 12th via Rock Ridge Music; he... Continue Reading →