[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ2McznPapY[/embedyt] “Sobriety led to ideas.” This is a modern, yet classic country source of inspiration, and it’s the only way Joshua Hedley knows how to do it. It’s not throwback and it’s not just simply a nod to a classic sound. It’s modern country music strait from the honky-tonks of Nashville’s Lower Broadway from […]

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBoy0h0hlD4[/embedyt] Charley Crockett is a new name to almost everyone here at Pickathon, and lucky for us, he’s just released a new album, ‘Lonesome As A Shadow’, to help round out the month of April. It’s a sort-of country, sort-of Memphis soul, sort-of crooner batch of songs – all of which we’re looking forward […]

Today we have the treat of a new Woods Series episode and this is a treat indeed. Below is an account of Dungen‘s Sunday evening performance from Jerad Walker of opbmusic.org… On the final day of Pickathon last summer, Swedish rock band Dungenclosed out the Woods Stage lineup with a sprawling, almost cinematic performance among the creeping trees of Pendarvis […]

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-OFHW5WGA[/embedyt] Simple, sweet, and soft. Timeless, lasting folk music from 32 year old Azniv Korkejian aka Bedouine. Her self-titled debut is one of the best records from 2017, and quite possibly as close as you can get to a modern folk masterpiece. This, on her first try, and after just a few years of […]

Whoa. Not much more can be said about today’s episode of Marlon Williams covering Screaming Jay Hawkins’ “Portrait of a Man.” Williams begins the song by first taking his shirt off, but that’s only the beginning of his raw vulnerability. From that point on, Williams bares his heart and soul in an astoundingly passionate performance. […]