Nell & Jim Band Pays Tribute to Northern California Roots On 12-Track STEEL, Feb. 15 First Single “Shady Grove/Matty Groves” Impacts Radio January 28

Northern California’s acclaimed Nell & Jim Band will release Steel, a new 12-track album inspired by and paying tribute to their Northern California roots, on February 15. Steel (Whippoorwill Arts) continues a time-honored tradition of musical activism that made such acts as Janis Ian or Peter, Paul and Mary so unforgettable. 

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Silence Diary

Laryngitis January 15th: I have had laryngitis for four days. Fascinating to see how people communicate around someone who cannot speak (I have been writing notes and trying to gesture what I mean). First of all, everyone starts whispering. Interesting, I think this could be useful somehow.

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MUSIC GONE PUBLIC: Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band episode featuring songs from “Baby Let’s Take The Long Way Home” album.
Season 1 Episode 11 | 56m 46s
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Jim Nunally Talks To Bluegrass Today

Jim Nunally, a San Francisco Bay Area native, has enjoyed a varied musical journey, not only as a musician, but as a composer, record producer and teacher. He had been preceded in that journey by his guitar-playing grandfather, an Arkansas native, who taught his son, who, in turn, passed along the art of playing the guitar to Jim.

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Premiere: “Tempest” on Mother Church Pew

“Tempest,” the cinematic new video from Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band, was filmed in the verdant climes of the Pacific Northwest, and marries the ancient beauty of the natural world with the age-old poignancy of roots music. The song itself is inspired by Michael Ondaatje’s novel The Cat’s Table.

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Nell Robinson and Jim Nunally–Creating a Life Together in Music

Every now and then a fresh breeze blows in off the ocean, rustling softly and gently carrying a musical tone we can’t hear which is nevertheless deeply familiar to us. Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band’s new album, Baby Let’s Take the Long Way Home, wafts in from the roads they have been traveling, blowing open our expectations and revealing freshly crafted stories about place and community and longing for what we’ve lost.

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Family: In loving memory of Big Don and Lovelace McNelley

I have been married two times. My first marriage was with a handsome young man, a surfer, a southern California sun-bleached blonde, with a big smile and lots of good humor and a warm and welcoming family. They happened to be from Alabama, and as my first husband and I got acquainted in our early twenties, we read it as a “sign” that our mothers were cheerleaders in rival high schools in Lower Alabama, and that our fathers were both from the Birmingham area and Air Force attorneys. Fate!

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