Times-Picayune: Keith Spera’s favorite New Orleans CDs of 2010

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THR artists Wilson & Moore’s Side By Side selected as one of Keith Spera’s Top 10 CDs in 2010.  Honorable mentions also go to THR releases Lighthouse (Susan Cowsill), Good To You (Honey Island Swamp Band) and Rites of Man (Tom Paines). To read more and see the Spera’s other choices, click the logo below.

Offbeat: Best CDs of 2010 List Announced

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Offbeat has published it’s annual  “Best CDs of 2010″ list and four THR projects made this year’s list. Susan Cowsill’s Lighthouse, Honey Island Swamp Band’s Good to You, Rick Trolsen’s Mystical Scam and Matt Perrine & Sunflower City’s Bayou Road Suite were chosen by the Offbeat staff as being among the best musical offerings to… [Continue Reading]

Offbeat Review: Rick Trolsen’s Mystical Scam

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Neslort is, of course, Trolsen backwards, and the return of this odd 1990s project led by the eccentric New Orleans trombonist Rick Trolsen is the latest gift from the ever-generous Threadhead social network, and something of a triumph for Jeff Albert’s Open Ears Series, which has featured the band. The music—and concept—is so reminiscent of… [Continue Reading]

Where Y’at Reviews: Neslort and Ensemble Fatien

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Neslort Mystical Scam Neslort Music BMI Neslort brings a robust feeling of excitement and renewal to contemporary jazz releasing soulful joy on their latest, Mystical Scam. “March of the Native Alien” brings some funky rhythmic beats to the table which sounds more like something you’d fine going down at the Maple Leaf or Blue Nile… [Continue Reading]

LA Times – Deeper cuts: Ann Powers picks 25 songs you might not have heard in 2010

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Ann Powers, from the LA Times’ music blog, Pop & Hiss, picks 25 songs you’ve probably never heard but are worth giving a listen. Susan Cowsill’s River of Love makes the list.

THR Artists Nominated for Offbeat’s Best of the Beat Awards

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Eleven Threadhead Records artists (and/or bandmembers) garnered eighteen different nominations in Offbeat’s 2010 Best of the Beat Awards. Best Roots Rock Artist Mia Borders Susan Cowsill Honey Island Swamp Band Anders Osborne Paul Sanchez Best Roots Rock Album Mia Borders: Magnolia Blue Susan Cowsill: Lighthouse Honey Island Swamp Band: Good To You Anders Osborne: American… [Continue Reading]