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Bluesville Records celebrates America's bedrock music genre with release of its first two audiophile quality vinyl reissues on June 7, 2024.

Craft Recordings proudly announces the launch of Bluesville Records—a new reissue series that celebrates America’s bedrock music genre, as well as the trailblazing musicians that contributed to its rich traditions. Inspired by the original Bluesville imprint (launched by Prestige Records in 1959 to preserve the hallowed genre and capture its most important living figures), the series is intended to appeal to blues enthusiasts of all levels—from casual fans who are eager to learn more to lo...

Fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken will be the first to tell you that there are no real stars in his kind of music.

Marin fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken released his first solo album in nearly two decades, “Test of Time."

Fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken will be the first to tell you that there are no real stars in his kind of music.

Talking Heads, Bob Marley, The Waterboys, Kim Gordon, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Phosphorescent and more star in the March 2024 issue of Uncut

The March 2024 issue of Uncut stars Talking Heads, Bob Marley, Kim Gordon, Waterboys, Phosophorescent, Julia Holter, John Fahey, Mud and more

D’Agostino uses unorthodox tunings, percussion, and other techniques to open up new vistas on the instrument. Yet his compositions feel driven by melody.

Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording original tunes rooted in the same country-blues loam as John Fahey since sometime in the aughts. Alternating between a six-string acoustic and Weissenborn lap-steel instruments, Rodriguez displays an easy command of their emotive and evocative potentialities. His playing is replete with swooping slides, woozy dissonances and fingerpicked melodie...

“It’s my most precious possession,” Max Ochs says as he retrieves a piece of broken metal from a guitar case — a scrap of trash he found on a dirt road in New Mexico in 1967 that he’s been toting arou...