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Collection of unreleased acoustic versions of some iconic Stones songs, comprised of excellent soundboard recordings. This track was recorded in Olympic Sound Studios in London in 1968. Brian Jones' acoustic slide guitar on the recording represents one of his last major contributions before leaving the band. Said Mick, “That was the last time I remember Brian really being totally involved in something that was really worth doing."

Joan, with the assistance of Nashville’s finest sidemen, tackles this classic Stones tune. A reviewer called her version ‘soulful and tastefully understated.’

Brian Henneman of the Bottlerockets on electric guitar; Jeff Tweedy on acoustic; Max Johnston on dobro. Wilco’s first album, it was recorded in Memphis.

From Etta’s first album, released on the Argo label, a subsidiary of Chess Records. ‘She sang the doors off this song!’

This is from the second studio album and fourth album overall by Muddy Waters, released in January 1964 by Chess Records. The album features Waters on acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on stand-up bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar. It is Waters's only all-acoustic album. “I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.” - Muddy Waters

From 2 concerts in memory of Nicolette Larson (who died of a cerebral edema in December 1997) to benefit UCLA Children's Hospital. Bonnie Raitt and her longtime bass player Freebo joined Little Feat for "Cold Cold Cold". Bonnie commented that playing with Little Feat was like riding a great horse. "If you want a good ride you have to have a saddle that fits, but sometimes you get an even better ride without a saddle!"

First album Poco made after leader Richie Furay left the band, it is less country and more rock than any of the previous studio albums.

Long-time organizer and musician Si Kahn asked Phoebe Rees to release her first full-length album, in celebration of his 80th birthday this April, and to carry his music forward long after he’s gone. She’s exactly the kind of person Si most likes to partner with: Deeply decent, with a strong sense of responsibility, and a lovely soft sense of humor.’ As the song says, “In the United States there’s a war against women.” But there’s a war against women everywhere in the world. From rape to honor killing, too many women are at daily risk of sexual violence, physical abuse, abandonment. “Take back the night” is one of the slogans created by women who have been fighting back together. Janos Koolen on banjo.

Chris Lunsford is the man and voice behind Oliver Anthony Music, who brings us ‘self-penned stories from an often-unseen side of the American experience.’ Album produced by Dave Cobb.

Nicholas grew up in Fayetteville, NC, and recently relocated to Nashville. Country Universe calls her ‘the most significant new singer-songwriter in recent memory.’

‘The Pork Chop Willie band is the duo of Bill Hammer on guitar and vocals and Melissa Tong on fiddle and vocals. The music is Mississippi hill country music. Horn-rimmed glassed Manhattan-ite Hammer and classically trained Tong look like an unlikely duo to have the chemistry and authentic chops to produce an album in the style of Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside, but they have done it in a big way.’

Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist, songwriter and vocalist Marcia Ball has been doing this for over 50 years! This song was inspired by renowned Texas political writer and humorist Molly Ivins.

RS mag calls this Santa Fe-based singer-songwriter and author: “a double fantasy of Nick Drake and Donovan.”

Live version. The studio recording can be found on their 4th studio album 'Fall Away Blues,' 2016, on Earthwork Music. [Skip James] Laurel Premo - fiddle & vocal, Michael Beauchamp – banjo & harmony vocal. Written by Skip James, who was born in 1902. Laurel added several new verses and interludes to his original composition for the version performed here.

The song was inspired by Cockburn's visit, sponsored by Oxfam, to Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico following the counterinsurgency campaign of dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. Cockburn despairs of waiting for a political solution to the crisis, and expresses the desire to take matters into his own hands. Cockburn stated that the song "is not a call to arms; this is a cry."

Carter Sampson is an Oklahoma City based singer-songwriter. This is from her 4th album, which has been called ‘a soulful and soft masterpiece.’

In an interview in 2016, Fogerty explained that “Run Through the Jungle” was a statement about gun control, not the Vietnam War. “The thing I wanted to talk about was gun control and the proliferation of guns.” It bothered him how people would use the Second Amendment to claim that they should own machine guns. “You don’t take a machine gun to go deer hunting,” he said. “There’s got to be some sort of lid on this thing.”

Live at the Musical Instrument Museum Music Theater, 2020. Ana Popovic @ Spire Center for Performing Arts (Plymouth) – 8-10pm tomorrow.

John cut this live in the studio over a couple of days with all the musicians playing in the same room in close proximity.

Backing vocals by Bruce Cockburn, Jennifer Kimball, Jonatha Brooke, Shawn Colvin and John Leventhal, who also produced the album.

Joe Louis Walker was born in San Francisco on Christmas Day, 1949. He was raised and schooled in the famed and dangerous Fillmore District. His parents were both from the South and they brought their love of blues with them when they headed west. Walker picked up the guitar as a child, and by the time he was 16, was an in-demand musician on the local club scene, regularly backing touring blues artists. The blues legends Walker accompanied shared not only musical knowledge but also their personal wisdom with the teenager. Blues icon Willie Dixon told him to set his sights high. "What's your style? You need your own sound," Dixon preached. Walker took the advice to heart and developed his own fiery, melodic and always unpredictable guitar attack.

This great Celtic folk band from just north of Philadelphia, got their name from Bridget Cleary, who was an Irish woman killed by her husband in 1895. Her death is notable for one distinct peculiarity: the stated motive for the crime was her husband’s belief that she had been abducted by fairies with a changeling left in her place; he claimed to have slain only the changeling. Michael Cleary denied having murdered his wife, admitting only to having done away with her changeling. His so-called “fairy defense” did not hold up in court and he was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison. She was the last witch burned in Ireland. ‘A happy, carefree Old Timey song with a little chickin’ pickin’ guitar. Makes you want to sing along.’

For Mark from Northbridge

Australian singer-songwriter Akers, of the indigenous Wonnarua people, just released this new single: ‘A song for the cowgirls, the untamed hearts and the daring souls who roam free.’

Single, released in 1962, based on the song "Ugly Woman" by Roaring Lion. This was actually banned from a number of radio stations at the time due to the offensive nature of the lyrics. “My favorite mildly-offensive song.” -Pug Mugsly.

Dickey Betts, singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the Allman Brothers Band, died yesterday at the age of 80. The cause was cancer and COPD. As a singer and writer, Betts was responsible for the band’s biggest hit, 1973’s “Ramblin’ Man,” as well as some of their most recognizable songs, including this one. My uncle, who is 90, used to play golf with him in Florida. He didn’t know who Dickie Betts was until someone else told him!