Fred Eaglesmith News

The Fredheads are probably already standing in line for this one. Fred Eaglesmith plays Amigo's on Friday, touring with his acclaimed Tinderbox CD, said to be his best work yet.

Well, it's Year of the Gun . For the first time in history the Supreme Court has defined the Second Amendment as defending every Tom, Dick and Hillary's right to own a gun - not just Militia persons, which is ...

D8 Wilfred Langmaid On the record Fred Eaglesmith: Tinderbox - A Major Label / Independent COMING TO N.B.: This is a postcard promoting Fred Eaglesmith's tour in support of his new CD, Tinderbox.

Last June, as my friends and family and I sat enjoying Fred Eaglesmith's sardonic commentary in between songs at what was my seventh Roots on the River experience, I finally figured out what this four-day music ...

SONGS ABOUT LIFE Canadian alt-country musician Fred Eaglesmith is a singer-songwriter who paints musical pictures of small-town characters and their lives.

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The clattering and clanking that accompany the banjo of "Time to Get a Gun" are ramshackle, lending the song a homespun quality, as if writer Fred Eaglesmith ran right out to the barn to record it.

Country, folk and blues sounds will return to the shores of the Pagan River with a new set of Smithfield Music concerts scheduled to begin next month.

“It's really the record I wanted to make.”

Two talented Canadian singer-songwriters with a penchant for alt-country music make appearances in Philly this week. via CourierPostOnline

The annual Roots on the River, Fred Eaglesmith music festival weekend in Bellows Falls always promises a delightful mix of musical styles and range of artists. via The Brattleboro Reformer

“Totally, but it takes a left-hand turn a bit”

For more than a decade, Canadian singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith has been making regular stops in Ithaca, playing to increasingly bigger crowds each time. via Ithaca Journal

“The first time we opened a show for a big name country act, their road manager said we sounded like Led Zeppelin playing Johnny Cash.”

Categories: Local Music Events Christian Serpas & Ghost Town to open for Fred Eaglesmith Monday night at Thibodeaux's . Doors open at 8PM for dinner and drinks. via NOLA.com

“It's drips and drips and drips”

Dozens of fellow singer-songwriters paid Fred Eaglesmith the ultimate compliment: They recorded his songs. via The Advocate

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Five things to do this weekend, plus Free Fun: 1 Judge for yourself if Riverbank's Got Talent at the benefit for the Riverbank Teen Center. via The Modesto Bee

“I would say this album has a little bit more of a rock feel”

Josh Zee and Teal Collins both have recording cred: Zee was in the Bay Area rock-band Protein, which was signed to the Work subsidiary of Sony in the early '90s; and Collins, the daughter of jazz disc jockey Al ... via Tucson Weekly

“Now I went somewhere else again”

THE first time I heard Fred Eaglesmith, I was making barbecue chicken pizzas at a stand at the Strawberry Music Festival. via Metroactive

FRED EAGLESMITH Bluegrass, folk and rock are no strangers to singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith, whose fans are known as Fredheads. via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“People want to believe in something, but not necessarily religion”

Fred Eaglesmith lives near Cleveland, sort of, even though he's in another country. via Cleveland.com

“We're gonna put your song on the album. And we're gonna do a video, and it's going to be in his movie.”

Fred J. Eaglesmith -- farmer, gearhead, painter, songwriter, outlaw icon and businessman -- has more hats than all the souvenir shops in Nashville. via Riverfront Times