New duet with the incomparable Rhiannon Giddens out now! Available on Anti Records.
Black Eyed Dog written by Nick Drake.
Rhiannon - Fretless Banjo, Viola, Vocals
Me - Lap Steel, Vocals
Recorded by Joe Mulcahy
Mixed by JP Berreondo and mastered by Gavin Lurssen at Lurssen Mastering
Hey everyone! I'm so excited to be a part of Mavis 80! Click the link below for tickets. All proceeds will benefit Newport Festivals Foundation, which not only produces the Newport Folk Festival but also does a lot of great work supporting musicians and music education programs across the country.
Tune in TOMORROW to Ringo Starr's 80th birthday celebration where Dave Grohl and I will be paying tribute to the legend himself!
The event starts at 5pm ET / 2pm PT on Ringo's YouTube Channel.
In collaboration with Voices of a People's History, SummerStage Anywhere presents an evening this Friday June 12th. I'll be accompanying the phenomenal Megalyn Echikunwoke on a Billie Holiday song.
Tune into the SummerStage YouTube channel at 7 PM ET for the premiere presented by Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage.
More information: https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/voices/
Back by popular demand, it's a bonus episode of Whiskey Hour Happy Hour, presented by Ed Helms and The Bluegrass Situation!! Tune in tonight at 5pm PT / 8pm ET.
Help us finish out our fundraiser for MusiCares and Direct Relief STRONG! No donation is too small in making a difference. Give here: smarturl.it/wshh.
Special thanks to the Americana Music Association, TX Whiskey, and Allbirds for their support!
Dancers:
Nicole Ashley Morris
Jacob "Seven Feet" Melvin
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Kristin Sudeikis Dance
Wax Wing Films / Max Gabriel
Ethan Allen
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Hyped to share debut track I produced for Hey, King!
I'm looking forward to being a part of this year's online Kokua Festival tomorrow. Tune in at 12pm HST/3pm PT/6pm ET at www.twitch.tv/amazonmusic or Jack's Facebook to watch the show.
Jack Johnson
G. Love
Ziggy Marley
Lukas Nelson
Paula Fuga
Kawika Kahiapo
John Cruz
Anuhea
Ron Artis II
Thunderstorm Artis
Hello to our friends in Brasil! We wanted to let you know that BHIC's dates in May have been rescheduled until Fall. The ticket links will remain the same. Please see the new schedule below:
Sep 30 - Rio de Janeiro - Vivo Rio
Oct 01 - São Paulo - Espaço das Américas
Oct 03 - Curitiba - Festival Coolritiba 2020
Oct 04 - Belo Horizonte - Land Spirit
Due to the ongoing situation in the region, we have unfortunately had to cancel the upcoming BHIC Tour of Japan.
Most importantly we are wishing well to all those affected.
We apologize to our fans in Japan for this inconvenience and we hope to reschedule soon.
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BHIC are hyped to play the BeachLife Festival on May 1 in Redondo Beach, CA. We'll be sharing the stage with Ziggy Marley & Stephen Marley's 75th Bob Marley Celebration, UB40, G. Love & Special Sauce and more.
I saw a man on his hands and knees crawling through Manhattan in a blue business suit. The world was walking by him as if crawling up Broadway was standard practice. I personally found it highly devotional. A man crawling home. Instinctively, I felt he was someone I needed to know. Turns out, he was also a songwriter, and not just any songwriter – this was Birdthrower.
Robert O. Leaver, aka Birdthrower, works as a groundskeeper at Riverside Park in New York, which runs along the Hudson River from 72nd Street up to the George Washington Bridge at 175th Street. The park is full of woods, gardens, playgrounds, a skateboard park and baseball fields. This fall Birdthrower was up every morning at 5:45 am, planting fast before frost, and as winter comes he'll be pruning, sharpening tools, shoveling snow and trying not to freeze. The wind blows hard off the river. Plenty of birds blowing around, and some lost souls too. During a cold snap, birds sometimes fall to earth; he warms them in his hands and throws them back skyward.
Birdthrower and I became friends and I signed on to produce his debut record. I immediately recognized in his music that these were not just songs, but love-aged, world-worn fables, scratched deep into the page with the painful pen of experience, maturity and dirt beneath the fingernails.
In the making of this album, Birdthrower recorded these songs live in one, two, three takes tops. As a musician I was inspired — as a producer, it was a dream gig.
I love Birdthrower's music. I want the world to have the chance to love it as much as I do.
Thanks,
Ben
I'm excited to premiere my pal Joe Henry's song "Gates of Prayer Cemetery #2" from his forthcoming album "The Gospel According to Water." The album drops this Friday, November 15. Listen now.
Catch the release show this Friday at Largo at the Coronet in West Hollywood!
