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Start your Sunday off with uplifting Bluegrass Gospel Music both new and old with Dennis Jones.

Join Dennis Jones this Saturday on “Goin’ Across The Mountain” in the Noon hour for a chat with Siler City, NC’s Nu-Blu. The award winning Bluegrass band…

Florida Democratic Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is launching an effort to directly reach Spanish-speaking voters through the popular encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp. It is part of her broader effort to reach Spanish-speaking Latino voters in an increasingly tight Senate race.

Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada has released this love letter to Latin psychedelic ballads of the 1970s, which has been 20 years in the making. "The album does for psychedelic boleros what the Buena Vista Social Club did for the Cuban son. It's a perfect recreation of a lost era, demonstrating that its source material has transcended the limitations of time." (Rolling Stone)

New Tunes at Two Tuesday 6/29: Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying

New Tunes at Two Tuesday 7/6: Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature.

Ironically, the title was the exact opposite of what Josh and most of us were doing when he wrote these songs – 2020/2021. He was hunkered down with his family in their home in Spain, and the arrangements here reflect a bit of a Pan-American sound as a result. At the core though are Josh’s terrifically catchy hooks, and tasteful guitar and organ interplay. “His knack for setting a simple feeling to a breezy melody shines through again and again.” (Paste Magazine)

We’re eager to introduce you to this new voice from the Midwest, a singer/songwriter whose heroes include Woody Guthrie and Utah Phillips, Walt Whitman and Carl Sundburg. This new album, produced by Cajun legend Joel Savoy, helps bridge the many divides plaguing us, thanks to Carlisle’s brilliant wit and poetry. By the way, he’ll be performing in Asheville on Tuesday July 5th, and Charlotte on Thursday the 7th.

Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno have been making sweet old-time fiddle/banjo/guitar music together, both under that name, and in the quartet The Onlies, out in Portland, Oregon the past few years. They’ve now moved to Durham, NC, and have more of an indie/folk/pop sound on this wonderfully recorded album of songs covering a wide array of subject matter. They play Asheville on September 22nd, and Charlotte on the 23rd.

Black Mountain’s Seth Kauffman has another multi-layered sonic experience in the form of this new album out this month! He’s released a few singles already, and has created some hand-made stencil album covers, too. As he’s known for doing with Floating Action, Seth writes, produces, engineers, and plays all the instruments here. Get to know his sound, and you’ll see why greats like Dan Auerbach, Jim James, and Scott McMicken regularly work with him.