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JamTurtle TV is a live music web series filming acoustic live performances of everything from pop to bluegrass and all the dark corners in between distilled down to warm intimate shows we call hangs. Hang with the Turtle and see the best in original Folk, Rock, Pop, Roots, Bluegrass and More performed live just for you and our cameras. JamTurtle TV also hosts the #JamTurtleLive Series, a random and plugged-in hang that could feature live music from throughout space and time.
Alison Krauss performs "Cash on the Barrelhead" as part of The Life and Songs of Emmylou Harris. Order now: CD/Mp3: http://smarturl.it/CelebrateEmmylouCD CD/...
The JamTurtle TV crew is thinking about patriots this impeachment day.
https://youtu.be/DgRVNjsuycQ
John Prine
Remembering our veterans today.
https://youtu.be/gt5cYvUg9no
By Eric Bogle
Sturgill Simpson calls 'Sound & Fury,' his upcoming album and anime film, "a sleazy, steamy rock-and-roll record."
On Sept. 27, Simpson will simultaneously release a new album and an anime film on Netflix, both titled Sound & Fury. Each promises to showcase the Kentuckian's louder, looser side.
The writer was Michael Nesmith, a few years before he would become a member of the Monkees.
https://www.jambase.com/article/jeff-austin-death
Mandolin player Jeff Austin, the former co-founding member of Yonder Mountain String band current Jeff Austin Band leader, has died.
It was once derided as hillbilly music. How did bluegrass become the new sound of political protest across the US?
Leon Redbone 1949-2019
https://www.nodepression.com/leon-redbone-has-crossed-the-delta-for-that-beautiful-shore/
Leon Redbone, who died Thursday at an age he always declined to specify, wasn’t a hitmaker, but he did make quite an impression. His head and heart were firmly in yesteryear, and he wove songs with roots in the first half of the 20th century, tinged with blues, jazz, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley.
Singer-songwriter Jakob Dylan and director Andrew Slater talk about the documentary Echo In The Canyon about music from Laurel Canyon in LA that went on to influence a later generation.
Let's pass Memorial Day the way we do at JamTurtle TV with music. John Gorka based on the poem "A letter to St. Peter" by Elma Dean.
https://youtu.be/FtasByd1dJ4
JamTurtle TV alum and one of our favorite vocalists Shelby Olive spoke recently with WKSU about losing her voice....then finding it again. AND she has a new record coming out at the end of the month.
https://www.wksu.org/post/shuffle-new-album-marks-continued-healing-shelby-olive-after-voice-injury#stream/0
Northeast Ohio singer-songwriter Shelby Olive is releasing her second album since she overcame vocal cord damage that nearly ended her music career five
https://gardenandgun.com/articles/jerry-garcias-bluegrass-roots/
Stream two never-released songs from the legendary musician’s early days on the banjo
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/rising-appalachia-tie-worlds-together-with-leylines/
Just weeks ago Leah Smith of Rising Appalachia, the harmonizing duo with her sister Chloe, stood on a high peak and sang the old traditional tune “Across the Blue Ridge Mountains.” She was at the end of a stay in a remote village, and some local women surrounded her for a send-off. “They circl...
Rhiannon Giddens is truly an American treasure, a musician, a singer, and a scholar. Her current tour doesn't reach NEO until October (10/23 at The Kent Stage) but it's never to early to plan on catching this remarkable performer live. JamTurtle TV will be in the audience.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/rhiannon-giddens-and-what-folk-music-means/amp?fbclid=IwAR1GLJ9kStRq0Ksa_HY5VNknrcWBTUzrQDFKCBwjBGR50Rd4_98RmluzeEg
The roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band.
JamTurtle TV alums and friends Grady Miller dropped a new video! Check it out!
https://youtu.be/t7esCJ9Mncw
Michael wrote this song after watching a movie about baseball...can you figure out which one?
We here at JamTurtle TV have been fans of Linda Ronstadt since way back. More people need to know her incredible voice.
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-new-linda-ronstadt-documentary-proves-just-how-underrated-she-is/?utm_brand=p4k&utm_source=facebook&mbid=social_facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1nPm28uv5iH8a4ylpHweo6UCEzQP3xi-b0lIlXynhZLzt4COK3ca_GV2w
The Sound of My Voice pays tribute to Ronstadt’s powerful pipes and broad stylistic range while also showing the sexism she faced.
Pete Seeger's Legacy Gets Immortalized With 'Smithsonian Folkways' Collection
Smithsonian Folkways archivist and Pete Seeger expert Jeff Place talks about Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, due out on what would have been Seeger's 100th birthday.
The Goldsberrys have a new record! Get out there and support these JamTurtle TV alums and their hand made Ohio music.
from the album By The Window
Bill and the Belles have become a favorite for the JamTurtle TV crew-since we filmed at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival a couple years ago. Dang they good!
The other night we decided to do an NPR Music Tiny Desk submission 10 minutes before we went live with Farm and Fun Time with our audience there to help root us on. One take...Kinda sorta high pressure! Haaa! It's a brand new tune titled "Taking Back My Yesterday." Hope y'all enjoy it. Let us know what ya think!
http://www.therealeasyed.com/new-riders-purple-sage-americana-lost-found/
John Collins Dawson IV,nicknamed both Marmaduke and McDuke, was only 64 when he died peacefully in Mexico eight years ago. Growing weary of life on the road as a professional musician, he retired in 1997 and had moved to San Miguel de Allende with his wife. Dawson, a singer, songwriter, and guitaris...
"member that "Traditude" thing we talk about here at JamTurtle TV? John Hartford invented it. Nashville Demystified kicks off their show exploring Hartford's influence. Lend your ears.
Alex sits down with New Nashvillian Carolyn Kendrick to discuss the influence of Newgrass pioneer John Hartford. He then speaks with Grand Ole Opry fiddler Matt Combs about the history of Hartford and the split between Bluegrass and Newgrass.
For today’s roadies, sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll are out; efficiency, tech skills, and professionalism are in, as musicians take to the road more often to make money. Photo: Adam Wiseman for The Wall Street Journal
In the latest episode of 'Tech Effects,' we investigated how music gets into our brains—and our bodies.
Alex Bevan has spent decades making folk songs and commercial jingles.
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/over-the-rhine-hold-on-to-hope-in-love-revelation/
In the 30 years since Karin Bergquist and Linford Detwiler made their debut as Over the Rhine, the husband-and-wife duo have established themselves as thoughtful storytellers painting cinematic scenes with their poetic lyrics, pastorally beautiful soundscapes and Karin’s sultry vocal delivery. On ...
With a vibrant Americana and bluegrass scene, Asheville, North Carolina, is becoming a new must-visit music city.
Billy Strings took a breather before his shows at Pensacola’s Vinyl Music Hall and Suwannee Spring Reunion to chat about his endless touring, how he handles rough crowds, and his band’s embrace of the unknown.
When you hear John Moreland's sweet voice, it's hard to believe he spent years singing in punk, metal-core and hardcore bands. He plays acoustic guitar now, but his songs are still full of passion.
As the Grateful Dead's longtime sound engineer, Dan Healy amassed a rich collection of tour tees. Take a look at his newly re-discovered archive.
“Cover Me Up” will carry Jason Isbell into the folklore of American music.
See inmates and prison guards singing side-by-side at the concert inside San Quentin State Prison.
Blaine, who passed away this week, is so peerless, so unquestionably essential to the past half century of American popular music, that it almost feels as though his face should be on currency.
A new collection of unearthed solo recordings from 1973 offers a tantalizing glimpse at the creative process of a legendarily mercurial artist.
Though often associated with the Vietnam War, Buffalo Springfield's signature song was inspired by a confrontation back home, which erupted on a few famous blocks in Los Angeles.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/695929937/first-listen-della-mae-the-butcher-shoppe
Returning from hiatus, the bluegrass band showcases its combination of playfulness and muscle as a performing unit.
Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla form a banjo-wielding supergroup dedicated to the history of both string-band music and black women in America.
Leonard Podolak
This is a song called Misplaced Star, by Lydia Garrison, and these are the Turtle Duhks, featuring Lydia, Jordan McConnell, and Myself. I tried to share it a couple of days ago on the DUhks Page, but wound up deleting it. I'll mostly stick to the banjo from now on. Thanks To Frank Serio, for taking this awesome Video.
https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/how-is-folk-music-defined-in-2019
As the industry-only Folk Alliance International Conference prepares to set up in Montreal, it’s worth noting that folk is a global art form — not just “a guy in a coffee house singing …
To call the Travelin' McCourys underdogs in the world of bluegrass music would be disingenuous, to say the least, especially since they earned their first Grammy nomination this year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/obituaries/izzy-young-dead.html
Bob Dylan, whose first formal concert Mr. Young produced, called his Greenwich Village shop, the Folklore Center, “the citadel of Americana folk music.”
https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/old-in-the-way-old-in-the-way-breakdown/
As a genre, bluegrass has always had outward-facing ambassadors -- bands and musicians with platforms that enabled them to reach a wider audience than the usually insular ‘grass niche. The Dillards, as “the Darlings,” brought bluegrass to thousands of TV viewers on The Andy Griffith Show; the ...
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/infamous-stringdusters-rise-sun-new-song-780777/
The Infamous Stringdusters have released their new song 'Rise Sun,' the title track to an upcoming album.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/molly-tuttle-new-song-take-the-journey-780320/
Bluegrass guitar hero Molly Tuttle has released 'Take the Journey' from her new album 'When You're Ready.'
Listen to Greensky Bluegrass' Full New Album 'All for Money': Premiere
Bluegrass outfit Greensky Bluegrass return with new set, "All for Money"
For artists like Carole King, it was "hippie heaven."
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