SWAMP DOGG - BLACKGRASS: FROM WEST VIRGINIA TO 125TH ST - VINYL LP KIM GORDON

SWAMP DOGG - BLACKGRASS: FROM WEST VIRGINIA TO 125TH ST - VINYL LP KIM GORDONVinyl LP pressing. 2024 release. Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music," says Swamp Dogg, "but it came from Black people. The banjo, the washtub, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name." Blackgrass, Swamp Dogg's remarkable new album, is no history lesson, though. Produced by Ryan Olson (Bon Iver, Polia) and recorded with an all star band including Noam Pikelny, Sierra

"And Jagger's not the only Rolling Stone to hop on The Blues Is Alive and Well: Keith Richards contributes to the warm "Cognac

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12 on the Billboard Top 200 in the U

Which was hardly far from the truth on a number of nights

4AD are delighted to announce that they're working with the band on reissuing both Four Calendar Café and Milk & Kisses in the United States

following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success

Featuring a cool black or navy and white patch

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but it's ultimately the 81-year-old Swamp Dogg's delivery-sly and playful and full of genuine joy and ache-that steals the show

3 Interlude: Come Back

etc that appeared in the original LP release where applicable have been faithfully reproduced for the Kiss Army