After 45 years, Billy Gibbons and the Moving Sidewalks reunited to play a set in New York City on March 30, 2013. You can find several audience videos on YouTube, including this one of their best-known tune, “99th Floor”:
Also check out the reissue of their complete catalog!
Those of you in the Los Angeles area have the opportunity to meet the infamous Swamp Dogg, promoting the upcoming reissue of his first two albums, Total Destruction to Your Mind and Rat On! He’ll be appearing at Freakbeat Records (13616 Ventura Boulevard in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California) on Sunday, March 3rd from 1-2:30pm.
Nashville’s weekly Music City Roots weekly concert and radio program can now be heard on an expanded list of broadcast affiliates. Hosted weekly at the Loveless Barn (behind the Loveless Cafe), the two-hour show can also be streamed live every Wednesday at 7pm Central Time. Each program includes four or five artists in 20-minute segments of music and interview, and concludes with a jam session. The legendary Jim Lauderdale hosts the show with additional Music City luminaries.
ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons and his pre-ZZ Top bandmates from the Moving Sidewalks will reunite for a show on March 30th – the first time the original quartet has played live in 45 years! Performing as part of the Cavestomp garage rock festacular, the Moving Sidewalks will play B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill in New York City. Advanced tickets are already on sale. Also check out the recently released complete anthology of the Moving Sidewalks’ recordings.
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Check out our review of Waylon Jennings’ posthumous Goin’ Down Rockin’ for an easy-to-enter contest. You can win a promotional edition of the release, complete with DVD documentary!
Alter egos have a long history in popular music, ranging from individuals such as Hank Williams’ Luke the Drifter and Lady Gaga’s Jo Calderone, to entire groups, such as XTC’s Dukes of the Straosphere. Actors dabbling in music have also had a long history, though often one that’s more of opportunism and dilettantism than actual craft. Luckily onn his debut as the nomadic Escape Tailor, actor Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, Law & Order, Suburgatory) shows himself to be both a good storyteller (Tailor’s history includes fifteen years busking the streets Los Angeles) and a talented musician. His self-titled debut is led off by “Just Cuz,” sung in a voice whose emotional quality quietly supersedes Tailor’s fright wig and chalk makeup. 
Many have heard gentle, harmony-laden folk-revival covers of “500 Miles” by The Journeymen, Peter, Paul & Mary, and The Brothers Four, but none of these versions have the visceral impact of Hedy West’s stark banjo-accompanied original.
Here’s a clever piece of art, grafting popular song titles onto a map of London:
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Filmmaker Beth Harrington is in the production homestretch of her Carter Family documentary, The Winding Stream. He Kickstarter campaign is gathering the funds needed to finish post-production. Take a look at the film trailer below, and then click through to read more (or donate) on the Kickstarter page.
