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Music Scene: New album from the Dinallos is a family affair By Jay N. Miller Pre-pandemic, protean guitarist Mike Dinallo was busy planning another EP of his outstanding rock ‘n’ roots music, while his wife, Juliet Simmons Dinallo was well into the preparation and writing for a new album of her Americana music. The various lockdowns threw all those plans into disarray and eventually put an end to Mike’s frequent trips to and from Nashville sessions. But it also forced the couple to learn how to do a lot of their recording work at their Shrewsbury home and after a while, it seemed to...

The new ten track release from Nashville singer songwriter Mac Leaphart, Music City Joke is a perfect combination of twang, heartbreak and irony with a good bit of nostalgia too. Produced by Brad Jones, (Hayes Carll), the album includes Nashville players Fats Kaplin, Will Kimbrough and Matt Menefee. Leaphart released his first album, Line, Rope, Etc.in 2009, before he left South Carolina where he’d been balancing a nighttime gig as a bartender with trying to launch his music career. A few years later, he headed for Nashville, launched a songwriters night called Southpaw Social Club, then ...

One year ago this month, Bill Toms started work on a new album with members of his band, Hard Rain.

  Article Contributed by IVPR | Published on Sunday, February 7, 2021 A Southern folk troubadour, master acoustic guitarist, and award-winning composer for film, TV, and video games, it’s not often that a renaissance man like Rod Abernethy comes along. Today, Abernethy is proud to add his new full-length album Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore to his vast catalog of works. Produced by Grammy-nominated producer Neilson Hubbard (Mary Gauthier, Kim Richey, Glen Phillips), Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore is a mixture of guitar virtuosity and world-class songwriting, most of which happened on Ab...

Put on your dancin' shoes: Mac Leaphart's new song "Honey, Shake!" will have you ready to groove. It's premiering exclusively on The Boot; press play below to listen. Leaphart wrote "Honey, Shake!" alone, "out of necessity," he explains. He was living in Charleston, S.C., playing hours-long bar sets, and while his setlists were largely made up of covers, "as long as we kept it upbeat, it didn't matter what we played." "At the time, most of the originals I had were sort of in the folk/country vein — not the kind of thing that keeps folks moving, necessarily. So, I sorted through my influence...