The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall is a complete recording of Bob Dylan's October 31, 1964 "Halloween" show at New York's Philharmonic Hall. It was released in 2004. The set list was dominated by Dylan’s protest songs, including "The Times They Are a-Changin’," "A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall," and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Joan Baez, a major supporter of Dylan's in his early career, duets with Dylan on three songs, as well as singing another alone ("Silver Dagger"). However, Dylan performed these songs alongside early versions of three songs from the soon-to-be-recorded Bringing It All Back Home. New compositions like "It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" showed Dylan moving in a new direction, becoming more immersed in evocative, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and moving away from social, topical songwriting.

Who says you can't make a great record in one day – or night, as the case may be? The Trinity Session was recorded in one night using one microphone, a DAT recorder, and the wonderful acoustics of the Holy Trinity in Toronto. Interestingly, it's the album that broke the Cowboy Junkies in the United States for their version of "Sweet Jane," which included the lost verse. It's far from the best cut here, though. There are other covers, such as Margo Timmins' a cappella read of the traditional "Mining for Gold," a heroin-slow version of Hank Williams' classic "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Dreaming My Dreams With You" (canonized by Waylon Jennings), and a radical take of the Patsy Cline classic "Walkin' After Midnight" that closes the disc. Those few who had heard the band's previous album, Whites Off Earth Now!!, were aware that, along with Low, the Cowboy Junkies were the only band at the time capable of playing slower than Neil Young and Crazy Horse – and without the ear-threatening volume.

If Janis Joplin had been more folksy she would have sounded like Mandy Brooks. Not that Mandy is just folksy; she's a bluesy, folksy, rocky singer who knows how to put soul in her voice. Mandy doesn't sing the blues because she "sings the blues". Rather, she sings about the condition of the human race and the promises that the early blues pioneers sang so much about. When I first heard Mandy sing I knew I wanted to be involved in her debut album. She had great musicians (Will Derryberry and Nicky Otis, son of blues legend Johnny Otis, among them.) I'm already looking forward to her next project.

Produced by Grammy-winner Tamara Saviano & Grammy-nominated Luther Dickinson. Recorded & mixed by Grammy-winner Matt Ross-Spang at historic Sam Phillips Recording Studio & Sun Studio in Memphis TN. Features Memphis classics from Valerie June, Bobby Rush, Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Heartm Amy LaVere and more. Proceeds will benefit St. Jude Children Research Hospital.

Five more CDs of Connie Francis, picking up right where Bear Family's earlier White Sox, Pink Lipstick set left off, in 1960 – although its 300-plus minutes of music only cover the period of 1960 to 1962. By this time, Connie Francis was established as one of the top female vocal talents of her generation, and she was ready to experiment – you hear her successful move into country music, wonderful outtakes, and never-issued songs from her early-'60s sessions…

Forever is the Love is the latest CD release from Janet McGarry. It’s been three years since Janet released her last CD, and fans of her music will find this album to be filled with more of the great music we’ve come to expect from her. As always, the album is woven with themes of love, family, faith and life. With fourteen tracks in total, you’ll find a great mixture of songs ranging from traditional bluegrass and gospel to straight ahead country.

Briana Renea comes by her country roots naturally, growing up on a rural farm in Canby, Oregon in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. She released her EP “Red Lips White Lies” in May 2015. On this EP, Briana collaborated with great Nashville writers, Cort Carpenter, Jason Wyatt and Tony George. Her original songs are about real life experiences happening around her. Her song, “Dirt Side” talks about her country roots growing up playing in the dirt and living on a farm. “Red Lips, White Lies” was inspired by a road trip with her twin brother, learning about all the “crazies” he dated. Her musical style was greatly influenced by her childhood growing up on 80s rock and 90s country. It is only natural that she blurs the line between rock and country in her writing style.

Recorded over the course of three days in Austin, Everything strikes a nice balance of consideration and spontaneity. The consideration comes from the songs themselves, which are as expertly crafted as all the songs Darden Smith has written over his past 14 albums.

The first thing that strikes me about The Talbott Brothers is their genuine artistry. You get the sense that they really love what they’re doing and would be singing even if we weren’t listening. I love that. But imagine a few other pairs of brothers, like Bo and Bear Rinehart or Scott and Seth Avett. Exactly what you love about those guys, you’ll love about Nick and Tyler Talbott. The opening “We Got Love” is full of bright energy that you’re sure to enjoy. The harmonies are top notch. It sounds like two voices made for each other. The whole sound is optimistic and hopeful. It’s the kind of pop folk sound that helped to motivate the very founding of this site, so of course we love it.

This Grammy-nominated disc heralds the origins of the highly acclaimed acoustic duo of Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) and David "Dawg" Grisman (mandolin). They had been chums for years by the time they began their direct partnership in earnest on December 7, 1990, with a nine-song set at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, CA. Over half of that material would be reworked the following spring – for inclusion on this disc – at Grisman's newly appointed, plush, and well-lit Dawg Studios. Along with David Grisman Quintet members Jim Kerwin (bass) and Joe Craven (percussion/fiddle), Garcia and Grisman revive a few familiar tunes covering every dimension of popular music, ranging from the blues ("The Thrill Is Gone") to folk-rock ("Friend of the Devil"), as well as pop music standards such as Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby" – which Garcia had previously covered on his 1974 Garcia (Compliments) album – and Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair." They also examined the origins of authentic traditional folk ("Walkin' Boss"/"Two Soldiers").

George Strait may have landed his first number one in 1982, making him an "overnight sensation," but he'd been working for it since 1976. Strait From the Heart boasts "Fool-Hearted Memory," a perfect slow two-step that raged in all the dancehalls in America for half a year and sent folks to the bins in droves seeking out Strait's records. What they found was a singer of uncommon vitality who could sing honky tonk, countrypolitan, and the new traditional sounds that were just beginning to assert themselves after the first wave of "new country." The new Strait fans were interested in the ballads such as "Marina del Rey" and "A Fire I Can't Put Out," but they are hardly the best cuts on the set. In fact, when Strait lets it get on the raw side is when he is at his best. Tracks such as "Honky Tonk Crazy," his cover of Guy Clark's "Heartbroke," the Western swing of his original "I Can't See Texas From Here," and the strutting barroom anthem "The Steal of the Night" offer a portrait of Strait as a man who can do it all.

From Toy Heart to Broken Heart, the music of Hannah Johnson has always been rooted in the past and free of any compromise. However, Hannah frequently rejects the populist retro revivalist path, preferring to come across as an astute historian hell bent on being a contemporary custodian of a timeless style. In a first major solo outing since taking an alternative path to what formed her first decade of making commercial music, Hannah has teamed up with a number of established players to conjure up a highly infectious collection of tunes perfectly encapsulating the soul of traditional country music. SHAKEN can take its name from a multitude of experiences of both sides of the emotional divide, but in this instance it clearly houses eleven cuts that fully succeed in carrying out the mission statement of an artist driven by her own heart and instinct.

Full of energy and surprise, wit and subtlety, the quartet Twisted Pine has quickly become one of the most acclaimed young string bands in the Northeast. Audiences across the US and the UK have been drawn to their forthright songwriting, lush harmonies, musical daring, and “charismatic appeal,” to quote Grammy-winner Alison Brown.

The album was written and released on June 23, 2017. On the soundtrack, there were 15 songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of songs that are often licensed from other artists and artists. You can see the names of bands and songs in the track list below. The album was released by Lakeshore Records.