We’re proud to welcome The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band back to Skyline Music.

There aren’t a lot of Warped Tour vets who can claim proficiency in the use of washboards, bottleneck slides and five-gallon buckets. Most didn’t spend their teens playing along to Charlie Patton and Bukka White albums. And just about none are fronted by a commissioned member of the Honorary Order of Kentucky Colonels. Nor have most been invited to festivals as diverse as Monolith, Austin City Limits, Vancouver Folk,  All Good and Lillehammer Blues Weekend. But that’s just the star. Read on…

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Grammy nominated keyboardist, composer, and record producer Jeff Lorber is known as one of the most respected purveyors of both jazz fusion and smooth jazz.

His new recording, Galaxy, released early in 2012, on Heads Up/Concord, revisits the sound he helped pioneer with the groundbreaking Jeff Lorber Fusion.. This album takes the experiment that he started with his last GRAMMY-nominated CD, “Now is the Time”, up a notch with 11 exciting and energetic new compositions performed by some of the biggest names in jazz today. Core members Lorber, bassist Jimmy Haslip and saxophonist Eric Marienthal are in rare form, aided by the explosive playing of drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and guest appearances by trumpeter Randy Brecker, percussionist Lenny Castro, guitarists Paul Jackson Jr. and Larry Koonse, and drummer Dave Weckl. On tour, Lorber performs in a variety of configurations.

Michael Martin Murphey is no stranger to the charts. “Wildfire,” “Carolina In The Pines”, “Long Line of Love,” “What’s Forever For”, “Geronimo’s Cadillac” and “Cowboy Logic” spent weeks atop the country and pop charts. In 2009, he earned a Grammy nomination and Bluegrass chart topper for “Buckaroo Blue Grass”, and Murphey has no intention of slowing down.  His latest release “Tall Grass & Cool Water” just hit #1 on the  Albums Chart of the Western Music Association. Previously the album was #4 on Billboard’s Top 10 Bluegrass Album Chart.

Bobby “Blue” Bland has joined the exclusive Skyline Music roster. This true legend has 23 Top Ten R&B hits spanning 60 years and has been covered by Eric Clapton, the Grateful Dead (“Turn On Your Love Light”) and many more. Recently, Rolling Stone Magazine named Bland one of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time.

Intergalactic marching band, the March Fourth Marching Band has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a new tour bus. They’re asking friends, fans and the promoters who have supported them to help keep their amazing entourage on the road in something safer, more reliable and a lot nicer to mother earth. Skyline will be donating to this campaign and we hope you do too. WATCH THE VIDEO & DONATE HERE.

MacIsaac and MacEachern first met at an artists’ hangout in Toronto in the late 1990s, when MacEachern was part of the band Zoebliss. MacIsaac briefly joined that band, and the pair continued collaborating as a duo after Zoebliss broke up in 1999. They released three albums independently in Canada, and then signed a record deal with True North Records for their fourth album, No Fool for Trying. Madison Violet are signed to Big Lake / India Records in Germany. The duo have toured extensively across Canada, Europe, the UK and Australia. In January 2011, Madison Violet was nominated for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Singer-Songwriter category for No Fool For Trying and won in the category for Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song for “The Ransom and Small of My Heart”.

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This prolific American singer-songwriter and a post-punk pioneer is the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of The Throwing Muses  From that launching pad, Hersh performs and records as a solo artist and with her hardcore punk influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave, as well as with the Muses.  Known for creative chord chemistry, hypnotic sonic treatments, and a vocal style ranging from softly melodic singing to impassioned screaming, her signature contributions to popular music include addressing the complexities of marriage and motherhood through impressionistic, sometimes hallucinatory lyrics about everyday feelings and varying mental states. Last year, Penguin Books released her memoir “Rat Girl” to critical aclaim. Hersh brought her companion performance piece “Paradoxical Undressing” to sold out houses at The Getty (LA), Bumpershoot Festival (Seattle) and Museum Of Fine Arts (Boston) and more.

Irma Thomas, the “Soul Queen of New Orleans”, remains one of America’s most distinctive and classic singers, a treasure from the golden age of soul music who remains as compelling and powerful as ever.  Irma first achieved prominence with a string of 1960s hits including “Time Is On My Side” (later covered by the Rolling Stones), “It’s Raining” and “Wish Someone Would Care”, and toured extensively with her band, The Tornados.  Upon returning to Louisiana in the 1970s, she built her reputation as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” signing with Rounder in 1986. After surviving the destruction of her home and business by hurricane Katrina, she released After the Rain in 2006, which won her a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Victor Wooten is getting a double-shot of national television exposure with appearances on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on February 10th and Fox News’ Mike Huckabee Show on February 11th. Check you local listings for exact times.