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Belle Brigade dance party

 in Americana Music

The Belle Brigade: Opening night on Cayamo

Americana music fans are good listeners, but it’s rare for a dance party to break out in their midst.
The best dancing on the Cayamo cruise this week has been at any show by the Belle Brigade. The young band opened the music cruise with a set on the pool deck on Sunday and then followed up with a late show in the Stardust Theatre, the largest venue and one usually reserved for the big name veterans.
Predictably, the theater was about a quarter full. Not so predictably, more than 40 audience members rushed the stage and danced to every upbeat song the band played.
Surprise cover of the night: “I Only Have Eyes For You.”

Guy Clark tribute #1; Ani DeFranco, Orbo & Longshots, Sons of Fathers enter chart

 in Reviews

This One’s For Him, the outstanding double-CD tribute to Guy Clark, lands in the #1 spot this week after a steady run up the Americana Music radio airplay chart. You’ll find our review here.

New to the chart this week:

–  At #17, the massive Chimes of Freedom tribute to Bob Dylan. The album, with a generation-spanning line-up of artists (Patti Smith, My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams, the Belle Brigade, Joan Baez and Jackson Browne among them) benefits Amnesty International.

–  At #29, Ani DeFranco’s Which Side Are You On?

–  At #32, Orbo and the Longshots’ Prairie Sun.

– At #37 , the self-titled album by Sons of Fathers

– At #38, Lincoln Durham’s The Shovel  vs. The Howling Bones

And this note: The much-debated Grammy nominee Linda Chorney had one of the most-added albums on Americana music radio this week, with 10 stations picking up Emotional Jukebox.

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