Silent Partners - Changing Times As natural as a steady pulse, Silent Partners make their debut on the Little Village label with Changing Times, a 10-song collection of blues that never misses a beat. Members Tony Coleman (drums and vocals), Russell Jackson (bass) and Jonathan Ellison (guitar [...]
Phantom Blues Band - Blues for Breakfast For all his considerable musical talents Taj Mahal has always been shrewd. And smart. In the early 1990s he knew he’d assembled something special in his backing band. He dubbed his secret weapon the Phantom Blues Band. After helping Taj [...]
Diunna Greenleaf - I Ain't Playin' You might want to put on your hat and slicker, because Houston blues singer Diunna Greenleaf’s I Ain’t Playin’ is about to rain down on you like a gushing Texas oil well. Her new Little Village album (Release date: May 20, 2022) captures a [...]
Henry Kaiser & Rome Yamilov - The Lenoir Investigation Rome Yamilov & Henry Kaiser's new release The Lenoir Investigation may well turn out to be the archetypal Little Village (LV) release, a beautiful mélange of brilliant, crosscultural playing grounded in a profound respect for musical tradition seasoned with a diabolically creative dash [...]
Mighty Mike Schermer - Just Gettin' Good The opening title cut of Mighty Mike Schermer’s 8th solo album and Little Village recording debut describes the 55-year-old guitarist/singer/songwriter’s musical journey perfectly. “It ain’t gettin’ old, it’s just gettin’ good!” Recorded throughout the pandemic at Greaseland in San Jose, [...]
Marina Crouse - Canto de mi corazón Vocalist Marina Crouse Celebrates her Chicana Heritage with New Tribute Album to Eydie Gormé El Cerrito, Calif. – Monday, March 28, 2022 – Accepting one’s identity and ethnicity, and in turn, that of others is becoming more embedded in the cultural [...]
DaShawn Hickman w/ Charlie Hunter - Drums, Roots & Steel Little Village Releases DaShawn Hickman’s Debut Album, Putting the Pedal Steel Center-Stage with Hunter on Bass Guitar and Backed by West African Percussionists Atiba Rorie and Brevan Hampden and Vocalist Wendy Hickman Greensboro, North Carolina – Wednesday, March 30, 2022 [...]
Bobby Black - Seventy Years of Swinging Steel! Best-known for gracing the pedal steel chair in Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Asleep at the Wheel, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Bobby Black is one of the greats at his chosen instrument and one [...]