Glenn Dicker spoke with us from New York about changes that have occurred since Yep Roc 15, the “legacy label” label, and the continued glories of owning a successful record company. When it celebrates twenty years of existence in a weekend that includes two nights at the Cradle and a free outdoor show in Hillsborough, where the company is currently located, the stages will feature many of the impressive names that continue to grace the Yep Roc roster, including Nick Lowe, Mandolin Orange, Dave and Phil Alvin, Tift Merritt, Tony Joe White, Dressy Bessy, and the Fleshtones. Dedicated to no genre and guided solely by the tastes of its founders, Yep Roc has risen from modest beginnings to the status of a proven winner, flourishing while others fade away. In 1997, Glenn Dicker was the head of his own small label, Upstart Records, and Tor Hansen was the owner of a new distribution company called Redeye when these two old friends ended up in North Carolina and decided to launch Yep Roc Records. Indeed, hearing Watson’s skillful and subtle banjo and guitar accompaniments and soaring vocals unadorned for the first time is a revelation.Friday, Oct. A true solo singer in every sense, Watson is now center-stage, armed with an acoustic guitar, banjo and the occasional mouth harp. On Folk Singer, we find Willie defending his musical turf. A few years down that road, Watson’s work with Old Crow is already a large part of the reason that banjo and guitar driven music is heard everywhere in the air these days. He discovered like-minded souls in Old Crow Medicine Show. He began to unearth Folkways albums, including the label’s groundbreaking 1952 Harry Smith compilation, Anthology of American Folk Music, which helped kick-start the ’60s folk revival lovingly captured in the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. Combined with having heard plenty of local string bands - featuring old-time banjo and fiddle - Willie experienced an epiphany. best-known for its race track and the rock festival of the same name which took place there, featuring the Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead and The Band - Watson grew up listening to his father’s basement record collection, including Bob Dylan and Neil Young, before stumbling on a Leadbelly album at the age of 12. 1, was produced by David Rawlings at Woodland Sound Studios, the studio he co-owns with associate producer Gillian Welch in Nashville, TN, over the course of a pair of two-day sessions, for their own Acony Records label. Willie Watson’s debut solo album, Folk Singer Vol. Indeed, hearing Watson’s skillful and subtle banjo and guitar accompaniments and soaring vocals unadorned for the first time is a revelation. Watson is now center-stage, armed with an acoustic guitar, banjo and the occasional mouth harp. 1 produced by the legendary David Rawlings. Willie Watson is known for his work with Old Crow Medicine Show, but his newest release is 2014’s Folk Singer Vol. The result of O’Donovan’s days of solitude is a 10-song album full of the singer’s honeyed vocals mixed with gauzy, frictionless sounds: splashing cymbals, airy harmonies, the leisurely baritone musings of an electric guitar. In the quiet moments found between touring her first solo album and collaborating with mainstay folk and bluegrass peers, Aoife O’Donovan found the inspiration to write her sophomore album In the Magic Hour - out this past January on Yep Roc Records. The album garnered praise from The New York Times and Rolling Stone, while The Guardian deemed O’Donovan the “next Americana celebrity.” Most recently O’Donovan has lent her voice to the folk trio I’m With Her with singers Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) and Sarah Jarosz. In 2013 O’Donovan released her debut solo album, Fossils, a moody collection of original songs with a country lilt. She was a featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, the Grammy-winning album by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile, has made regular appearances on A Prairie Home Companion and collaborated with some of the most eminent names in music across a wide variety of genres from Alison Krauss to Dave Douglas. O’Donovan will perform with her band, while Watson will take the stage as a one man band.įor a decade, O’Donovan wielded her instrument with tensile strength as the captivating lead singer of the Boston-based progressive string band Crooked Still.
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