May 2022

Today, Neneh Cherry announces a new project titled The Versions out June 10th, a collaboration album of covers from her expansive catalogue by an all-female line-up of some of the most exciting and revered artists of our time. Listen to superstar songwriter Sia’s version of Neneh’s hit “Manchild” out today below.

LISTEN TO “MANCHILD” BY SIA HERE

WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE

If you were Black, you played blues or soul music … I wanted to play folk music.” Suppressed by a music industry heavily influenced by racial stereotypes, Cleveland Francis' stirring, contemplative, and emotionally moving recordings from the late ‘60s through the early ‘70s were a political act in and of itself. Now restored and remastered by GRAMMY-award winning audio engineer, Michael Graves, the hauntingly beautiful anthology, Beyond The Willow Tree, is available via Forager Records.

Craft Recordings is proud to share a brand-new music video for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1970 hit, “Travelin’ Band,” from their fifth studio album Cosmo’s Factory. The video offers a rare glimpse of the band on the road in 1969 and 1970—at the height of their international success—as the camera follows them from brightly lit stages to the hodgepodge of planes, buses, motorcycles and more, that brought them to perform for their growing number of adoring fans.

Australia’s beloved psychedelic-surf-rockers Ocean Alley have released a new single “Deepest Darkness,” their first new music of 2022. The track is accompanied by a video directed by W.A.M Bleakley (Courtney Barnett, DMA's, Middle Kids).

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On May 13th, JUNO-winning band The Bros. Landreth released its soul-stirring ‘Come Morning’ album, offering a vulnerable lens into topics like love, loss, abuse, addiction, toxic masculinity, mental health and more. Today (5.25), the duo shares its stunningly cinematic new video for the album’s “Drive All Night.” Watch here: youtu.be/7fo520e-plc

Delbert McClinton’s latest record Outdated Emotion debuted at #1 this week on the Billboard Blues Albums chart. Released this month on Hot Shot Records/Thirty Tigers, the “hip and down-to-earth” (No Depression) 16-song collection marks a return to McClinton’s roots as he reinvents the music of his childhood heroes.