NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts) Acclaimed singer/songwriter Jeff
Black has released his newest album B-Sides and Confessions, Volume Two. This release is the ninth album from Black, a respected influence on modern folk and roots music for more than three decades.
B-Sides and Confessions, Volume Two follows Black's Plow Through the Mystic (2011), which was hailed as a "masterful music soundscape" by Folk Alley and celebrated by PopMatters as an example of "the tradition of an artist delivering songs that are damn near perfectly crafted, and filled with the wisdom of the ages." This latest album is a new chapter of moving and soulful songs from the insightful storyteller.
To celebrate the release, Jeff is hosting a worldwide release party from his virtual speakeasy, the TAPROOM. Broadcasting from 333 - the TAPROOM's stage to the world -
Black is streaming the album for a full 24 hours before performing songs from the new album and other favorites with friends Sam Bush and Stephen Mougin at 8 p.m. CT.
B-Sides and Confessions, Volume Two, features special appearances by music legends Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Matraca Berg and Gretchen Peters, and with these friends lending their musical support,
Black has created another remarkable collection of roots-driven, moving and cinematic songs. Recorded at Black's Arcana Studios and mixed by Dave Sinko, known for his work with Punch Brothers, The Bee Eaters and legend Don Williams, B-Sides and Confessions, Volume Two resonates with Black's celebrated and personal style of matching verse and melody with portrait and tone.
Jeff
Black has been a collaborator with some of music's most credible names, including
Waylon Jennings, Dierks Bentley, Sam Bush, Alison Krauss, Iris Dement and more. Black's song "Frozen Fields" - co-written with Jon Randall Stewart - was featured on both last year's GRAMMY award-winning album Paper Airplane by
Alison Krauss & Union Station, as well as Jerry Douglas' album Traveler, released in 2012.
Frequently flying below the radar,
Black is an innovator in how he connects directly with his fans as patrons. Dubbed "The Blacklist," Black's supporters have transformed over the years from a group of faithful podcast subscribers into a fervent family.
Black takes that connection one step further with The TAPROOM, a cutting-edge file exchange website to better serve his loyal supporters.
The TAPROOM features continuous streaming audio and an arthouse style film and video portal, which serves as a platform to evolve his podcast program "Black Tuesdays" into a multi-format series. The TAPROOM also hosts Black's stage to the world named the 333, the address for the infamous speakeasy of folklore that once occupied the cellar. The TAPROOM is yet another way
Black has distinguished himself from mainstream artists, bucking the traditional model and catering to the those who truly appreciate his work and who have become his most ardent supporters.
Black's 2013 tour will kick off with performances at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Florida on January 18 - 20. Other shows include appearances with
Edwin McCain (featuring a Jan. 24 benefit for Habitat for Humanity in Salisbury, N.C.), a return to Kansas City, Mo. in March to benefit longtime friends and supporters at the community radio station KKFI, as well as stops in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic summer tour dates.
For more information on Jeff
Black and B-Sides and Confessions, Volume Two please visit www.JeffBlack.com.
Click here (https://tr.jeffblack.com/index.php?cID=498) to join the TAPROOM and watch the broadcast tonight at 8 p.m. CT.
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Early Praise for B-Sides and Confessions, Volume Two:
"Jeff
Black brings gritty beauty and grace to a collection of memories, stories and observations on B-Sides And Confessions, Vol. 2. If we're never entirely clear on where the lines between memory, reverie and hope stand then nothing has been lost.
Black paints over the edges in seamless fashion, allowing the listener to suspend disbelief for an hour or so and simply be in the music. This is, perhaps, a musicians' greatest gift to his/her fellow man; the ability to transcend, suspend and simply be.
Black plies that gift, that talent, to perfect here." - Wildy Haskell, Wildy's World
"As with Volume One, Volume Two is filled with rare treasures that linger long after the music stops." - Russell Trunk, Exclusive Magazine
More Kind Words:
"Black has created another masterful music soundscape." - Elena See, Folk Alley
"This latest set continues a tradition established on earlier albums such as Tin Lily and
Honey and Salt, the tradition of an artist delivering songs that are damn near perfectly crafted and filled with the wisdom of the ages." - Jedd Beaudoin, PopMatters
"With his rich baritone voice, and superlative songwriting chops, Jeff
Black ranks among the elite of contemporary singer/songwriters." - Steven Stone, Audiophile
"Jeff
Black songs remind listeners' how songwriting can trigger real emotion when it looks past the trivial." - Timothy White, Billboard
"Nothing short of brilliant. Top to bottom, this stuff is special.
Black is an artist of substance." - Ray Waddell, Billboard
"I could go on and on about my love for this artist. Every CD released in Nashville should have one of his songs on it. And every home should own his records." - Robert K. Oermann,
Music Row
"Song crafting at its best."- Rob Reinhart, Acoustic Café
"Impressively hard-nosed....tough, powerful songs."- Lee Froehlich, Playboy
"Jeff
Black has the troubadour quality of a Steve Goodman, the poetic dignity of a Bruce
Springsteen, and the outer-fringe edge of Townes Van Zandt. We kid you not."- Steve Morse, The
Boston Globe
