Derek Trucks

Quinn Sullivan has been a music professional for more than 75 percent of his life. He's shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Los Lobos, The Roots, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi and Joe Bonamassa, and he opened for B.B. King, who later invited him to play his treasured "Lucille" guitar. He has performed on concert and festival dates throughout the United States – including at storied venues like Hollywood Bowl, RFK Stadium and Madison Square Garden – traveled overseas – performing at both the Montreux Jazz Festival and India’s Mahindra Blues Festival – and played several editions of the Experience Hendrix Tour, backed by Jimi’s original bassist Billy Cox.

Ubuntu Music is delighted to release the new album from Paul Booth, the wonderfully talented saxophonist, aptly titled 44, on his birthday.

Warren Haynes’ musical journey began even before he ever picked up a guitar. “I was singing in my bedroom, trying to emulate all my favorite soul singers,” he recalls. “Those early impressions and influences are very deep and tend to stay with you.”

“Jones is probably the most ear-catching, head-turning blues/roots guitarist since Derek Trucks.”

Robert Randolph grew up playing sacred steel music – basically gospel played on pedal steel guitar – on the House of God church in Orange, New Jersey, and began taking his joyous, gospel-infused music out to clubs and into the world.

Lorenzo Sanchez is a guitarist from the French professional blues scene. His Andalusian origins, his artistic encounters and the strong musical influences of the great blues masters, from Hendrix to Ry Cooder to Derek Trucks, have shaped an original Afro-American musical form.

Charitable recording of Mark Knopfler's instrumental, 'Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)', produced in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.

The River and The Thread, her first album of original songs since 2006, Rosanne Cash and husband/ co-writer/ producer/ guitarist John Leventhal traveled the American south in search of creative inspiration that would reflect what she calls 'the resonance, beauty and longing of the region.' From Arkansas boyhood home of her iconic father Johnny to William Faulkner's house in Mississippi to the small towns and Crescent City of the Delta, Cash says she started to 'feel a deeper layer of the South than I had ever experienced.' Stories were culled, lyrics penned, songs written. As with all Rosanne Cash albums, there's a subtle balance of traditional country overtones with acoustic folk and Americana leanings, Leventhal's shimmering guitar fills and a Cash's voice, plaintive and seductive. In many ways, The River and The Thread is a logical step from her 2009 album The List, a collection of country classics handpicked by her father that connected family roots to the distinctive, decidedly modern singer and songwriter Cash had become.

David Miilmann Group consists of five young musicians, each of whom has his own personal expression. Together they have created a distinctive soundscape, where sangbar slide guitar exchanges ideas with a live rhythm group.
The group has played a part in each other for the last 2 years, which has resulted in an organic interaction between the young but capable musicians.

“Jones is probably the most ear-catching, head-turning blues/roots guitarist since Derek Trucks.”