The weekly American Roots Music program brought to you by The Alternate Root Magazine features in studio guests, interviews, music video and live performances from the top performers in American Roots, blues, folk, bluegrass and indie roots music. Hosted by Alternate Root Magazine senior writer Reb Landers.
After a short summer vacation Alternate Root TV returns with Show 10, the second of three shows featuring the Martin Guitar staff, factory and museum. Host Reb Landers interviews resident expert "historian" for Martin Guitar, Dick Boak about setting up the museum, great players that have visited the factory and museum and the vast collection of instruments in the Martin Guitar collection. Brian Molnar and Naked Hearts bass player Todd Lanka provide a selection of music from their latest releas...
Show nine is the first of our three shows from the legendary Martin Guitar Works in Nazareth, PA. Martin Guitars is synonymous with excellence since 1833 and one of the most famous names in the history of American popular music. The folks at Martin welcomed Alternate Root TV with open arms giving us access to their factory, historian Dick Boak and CEO Christian F. Martin IV plus gave us the museum to bring in some excellent musicians to perform in front of one of the finest guitar collections ...
This weeks show, our 8th of the season, is a bit of a twist on our normal show. Reb and producer Fred Boenig hooked up with midday jock at WLVR in Bethlehem, PA, AJ Fritz and Carmen Sclafani and Jimmy Somma from the band Wiser Time and recorded a late night session at an old abandoned garage on the outskirts of Allentown the four songs and interview with AJ and the band about discovering Wiser Time are deatured in the show. Also visiting the set is Nashville guitar ace Brian Ashley Jones and t...
Show 7 of Season 2 features Stonehoney, an outstanding band from Austin. These boys can sing and they can play! Also includes a fine singer/songwriter from New York City, the lovely Addie Brownlee and a twangy rockabilly trio from St. Louis, The Melroys. Also, show host Reb Landers pulls a nugget out from the archives from Season 1 with a stunning tribute to the late Johnny Cash from James Intveld. Videos include some new ones from Mr. Isaac Allen. Timothy Craig and Brother Slade plus a few fr...
Boston's own Digney Fignus joins show host Reb Landers on this weeks episode of Alternate Root TV along with one of the founders of the great band BR-549, Chuck Mead and Brooklyn, NY roots country band The Defibulators. Video premier from Alison Krauss and Union Station along with new video from New Jersey artists James Scott Bullard and Brian Molnar and the Naked Hearts. Videos also from Nashville duo The Civil Wars, Canadian singer/songwriter Trevor Alguire and from Baltimore, MD, The Bridge...
Show 5 picks up right where Show 4 left off with more new videos incredible music and in-studio guests. Joining host Reb Landers this week is the inimitable tenor voice of the one and only Raul Malo with Michael Guerra on accordion. Also Marshall Chapman who has now added actress to her incredible resume following her appearance alongside Gwynneth Paltrow in the film Country Strong. Also featuring the misty mountain stomp of West Virginia band the Wild Rumpus. Videos from Jefferson Fox, The Br...
Show 4 of our second season of Alternate Root TV might be our best show to date! Joining host Reb Landers is Will Kimbrough...he's played guitar for Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Buffett, Roseanne Cash, Todd Snider and more. Will joins Reb Landers for an interview and performance with singer Lisa Oliver Gray. Also Brian Molnar and the Naked Hearts from New Jersey and the soul/gospel singer from Nashville Mike Farris. Video from Canadian folk singer Trevor Alguire, Jefferson Fox, Crooked Still, The Civ...
Show #3 for the second season of Alternate Root TV features special guests, the great blues duo Peter Karp and Sue Foley. Also featured are New Jersey band Joe Cassady and the West End Sound and from Ottowa, Ontario, The John Henrys. A special tribute to Robin Rogers, the fabulous blues singer who passed away in December 2010. Music videos from the Warped 45's, Jefferson Fox, Have Gun Will Travel, Bill Toms, Over the Rhine and American Graveyard. Alternate Root TV is hosted by the Alternate Ro...
Show #2 of the second season of Alternate Root TV features the one and only Hayes Carll who stopped by for a visit and a new band fro New Jersey, Downtown Mystic recorded in West haven, CT for Alternate Root TV. New videos from Jon Fox, Skittish, Lizanne Knott, Lucy Billings, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez and the venerable folk artist Jeff Talmadge. Join host Reb Landers for the best Americana / Roots music television show in the US
Alternate Root TV starts its second season in a new studio and our favorite host , Reb Landers, is back. This season will includ performances from the Top Roots Americana.
