'The Independent Music Show Magazine' October 2023. | Page 10

Robin Roberts & Billie Preston

"Where The Bluegrass Grows"

GENRE: PURE AMERICANA

A single release from our record “LIVE - from The Underground”.

I wrote this song after seeing Split Lip Rayfield on Stage 5 at the Walnut Valley

Festival in Winfield, Ks and Kirk Rundstrom’s death in 2007.

The cover art is Russ Baker, Brody Wellman, Billie Preston, Robbie Bailey, Paul Lemke,

and me, Robin Roberts, playing in wf, on Stage 5 saturday night at midnight 2022.

DownTown Mystic:

"Day Of Reckoning (featuring Tony Trischka) "

GENRE: AmeriKarma

DownTown Mystic, a.k.a. American rocker Robert Allen, is one of the top Sync-Licensed indie artists in the world with over 240 TV shows and film placements. This exposure and getting name-checked by outlets like American

Songwriter have given Allen’s career real wings. His new album is AmeriKarma.

The new single Day of Reckoning features Banjo master Tony Trischka (he taught Bela Fleck). The

song was co-written by Robert and Jay Friedman from Blue Grass/Americana band Blue Plate

Special. The song is a tongue-in-cheek look at taking stock of one's life and getting ready for

Judgement Day.

Bill Jackson: "Precious Cargo"

GENRE: Americana

Bill Jackson is coming from the grass roots, from the ground up, from the struggle of

the 99% - his songs are gritty and real and come at you like a hammer, ringin' in the

mornin'. Take it or leave it, he's telling it straight up’. (Shane Howard)

Jackson has firmly established himself over the past few years as one of Australia’s

finest Singer/Songwriters. He has released seven solo albums and toured North

America four times. His most recent album, ‘The Wayside Ballads Vol 3’, produced

by Kerryn Tolhurst was awarded ‘Contemporary Album of the Year’ at The Australian

Folk Music Awards in 2021

Krista Herring "The River"

GENRE: Americana

Indie Americana singer songwriter Krista Herring has a a folk heart with pop sensibilities. She has

been compared to the likes of Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and other Americana/Folk

greats, but has a sound all her own. Her music is soulful prose set to the beat of an acoustic guitar

and delivered by powerful and captivating vocals.

Originating from California, having lived in Nashville, Portland, Austin, Muscle Shoals and more,

and now making her home in Colorado, Krista is finishing up a new album that she wrote during her

time in Muscle Shoals.

The first single on her upcoming album, and, also the first song she wrote during her time in the

Shoals, is out now. The River was written and recorded in Muscle Shoals, using some of the best

local world class talent.

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