Last month, Willy Mason and Brendan Benson rounded up an all-star team of musicians and entered the upstairs apartment at Nashville’s United Record Pressing. Years ago, that apartment was used by artists and record execs who came to the the segregated south and found themselves excluded from hotels due to the color of their skin. [...]

Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons Old Believers (Readymade) Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars Brendan Benson’s name isn’t visible on the outside package of singer/songwriter Cory Chisel’s sophomore album, but as producer/mixer/multi-instrumentalist and label owner, he is the man behind the curtain largely responsible for its success. Chisel’s folk-rock dips its toes into [...]

The Billy Reid and K-Swiss Shindig is back for a second year, and to help celebrate the news, we’re launching a free digital sampler, showcasing all the great artists on the bill. Click here to download the 7 song digital sampler. Be sure to join us at The Swan Dive on Wednesday, March 14th, from [...]

Brendan Benson plays the Billy Reid Shindig on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at Swan Dive. Click here to RSVP. Read reviews and get a free download of tracks from each of our Shindig artists, including Brendan Benson’s “Bad For Me,” by downloading our SXSW Sampler. Since 2009, when the Detroit-born singer-songwriter Brendan Benson released Old [...]

Update (1/9/12): Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is launching his own label, Chigliak Records. As the presence of major labels has begun to dwindle, a surge in independent, artist-owned labels and publishing houses has taken place to fill in the missing piece still needed to fulfill the many tasks and operations involved in releasing a record. [...]

On Black Friday (11/25), 453 Music will drop Volumes 1 & 2 of Upstairs at United, a new series of vinyl albums recorded at the historic United Record Pressing plant in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1949, URP is the country’s oldest vinyl record plant. Volume 1 will feature solo artist and Raconteurs member Brendan Benson, [...]

Nashville musicians paid tribute to Big Star and Alex Chilton on May 21 at Mercy Lounge in Nashville. The show was a benefit for MusiCares, a foundation set up to aid musicians should they find themselves in need, which, in this case, meant those hurt by the Nashville flood. The tribute was put together on [...]

We here at Lake Fever Sessions make no attempt to hide the fact that we sometimes get a little giddy working with some of our favorite artists. So when our crew over at American Songwriter asked if we had any interest in a session with Brendan Benson, we knew we were in for something special. [...]

Skip Matheny –former bartender in a retirement community and currently a songwriter in the band Roman Candle — interviewed Brendan Benson and Ashley Monroe earlier this month for Lake Fever Sessions on Nashville’s Music Row. Be sure to check out the video below. The first question we always ask is, “What’s your favorite drink?” Brendan [...]

Jack White knows a good thing when he hears it. When he plucked Brendan Benson from near obscurity to join him in fronting The Raconteurs, he also helped resuscitate Benson’s floundering career.