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Pulling Bluegrass Up By The Roots

Sid speaks with NPR’s Linda Wertheimer about the new record and adding an “alt” to bluegrass music. Listen online on the NPR website or click on the play button below to hear the show....

The Coal Porters – Find The One (CD)

£9 including P&P (UK customers) £10 including P&P (Rest of world) Barefoot On The Courthouse Lawn Never Right His Wrong Hush U Babe; Burnham Thorpe The Betsey Trotwood Heroes Red-Eyed & Blue Ask Me...

Find The One

Find The One is the Coal Porters’ fifth and most accomplished album since they unplugged, forgot about the electricity bill and prepared for global warming by morphing into an entirely acoustic act. Produced by...

Call All Coal Porters – Show One!

Dear Friends, I am hoping to do a podcast about once a month. If my engineer Kevin Stokes can bear to work with me again and get it set up we hope to send...

REM

This just in from Sid… HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS ON THE BREAK-UP of REM. September 21, 9pm (consider this a blog…kinda…sorta…) Ex-Long Ryders drummer Greg Sowders sent me some CDs for my 56th (!)...

The Coal Porters

“Sid Griffin and the Coal Porters, a proper band with albums and tours and a fiddle.” The Guardian, Laura Barton’s Back Page column The Coal Porters are an exciting and dynamic bluegrass combo with...

The Long Ryders Native Sons : Deluxe Reissue

Native Sons is the album which Jeff Tweedy, Chris Robinson, Kurt Cobain and Gary Louris all bought and loved, influencing their own styles. It was a huge hit on the College Radio/Alternative Charts in...