Sid Griffin
The Long Ryders, The Coal Porters, used to write for Q & Mojo, wrote four books...one of them sold well..., I play guitar, banjo, mandolin, chromatic harmonica, the horses. From Kentucky. Can still comb my hair forward. For more info: www.sidgriffin.com
- Today is Bandcamp Friday and should you wish to purchase the album Shindig! magazine said was the 26th Best Album Of 2026 then look no further...and it is on sale today only! 😳 sidgriffin-label51.bandcamp.com/album/the-jo... (On a personal note I gotta say I was very proud of this album.)
- All the Coal Porters 'alt-bluegrass' jams are on sale today via Bandcamp Friday at reduced prices. Stock up now, music lovers! thecoalporters.bandcamp.com 😎 (The Coal Porters have a BIG surprise late this year...just sayin'...) 🎻🪕
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- The Third Annual Workshopalooza guitar week is the last week of May in sunny Tuscany🇮🇹. Please, guitar and Long Ryders fans, please check out this short promo video...it really is the greatest week of the year for me and my students. Also the food is sooooooo yummy there, wow❗️
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- Tack så mycket för den fina reklamfilmen för vårt nya album! Cherry Red is a great label, folks. Check 'em out! They beat goes on in Scandinavia! hemifran.com/news/detail/...
- Every Tuesday night there is a free bluegrass session at The Landseer Arms in Archway, north London. 7:30 to 10:30. Please come and have a pint and a listen. You need only bring a smile. 😊
- Gary Louris was bringing it all back home tonight at his last minute solo show the Water Rats pub in London’s always fashionable Kings Cross area. 🤔 His solo LP from a year ago was typically topnotch and we all know the Jayhawks are gr8. Thx, Gary, for letting me sit in on mandolin for a few tunes.
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- The songs about Hope for a better future keep on coming! Listen...it's coming...I hear it coming... tidal.com/playlist/be6... 🎸 Dance to the day when Fear is gone.
- Reposted by Sid GriffinJust a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
- Here is the updated poster for my tour with 3 times Grammy nominee Peter Case. The Paris 🇫🇷 date is in a new, much groovier venue so I need to let everyone know. Yes, I will play my new Long Ryders songs on this tour including Four Winters Away. Do come see us! Tickets via sidgriffin.com/tour-dates/
- Here is the new video for Four Winters Away, the new single by the Long Ryders. We hope to see everyone on tour in April and in October. Oh! The album is out March 13 on Cherry Red Records and is called High Noon Hymns. Yes, available both vinyl and CD. Can’t wait to play for you folks again! 🎸
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- The Long Ryders world tour starts with a first leg in April. Our first single is now streaming and the album is out March 13 on Cherry Red Records. Tickets are available via www.thelongryders.com/The-Long-Ryd... and we hope to see you down the road!
- A great boxercise session this morning at AllStars Boxing gym on the Harrow Road, London. Also gotta say a terrific buncha people to spend time with too. You feel fabulous after a workout, shower, light lunch. And in my case, after the post-lunch nap.😴
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- Today Feb 15 the first Long Ryders single in years is out❗️It is called Four Winters Away and it is available on ALL streaming services. It is from out album High Noon Hymns which is out March 13 on Cherry Red Records. Please take 150 seconds out of your day to enjoy Life! 👍
- Third Wednesday every month you’ll find us at The Old Eagle playing bluegrass 🪕🎻for free. It is such fun! Tonight was particularly cosmic. So go to 251 Royal College Street, NW1 9LU, Camden Town and bring your fiddle and a smile! 😃
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- Here are two members of the Long Ryders with a brief but quite important announcement 😳from someone’s living room in greater Los Angeles. 🏡 Hope you and yours will saddle up for another crazy tour behind another studio album. Oh❗️The new single, Four Winters Away, is out on Friday January 23. ⤵️
- The Jayhawks main man Gary Louris is playing a gig Feb 2 at The Water Rats in always fashionable Kings Cross, London. I’m gonna be there for sure and I might just have my mandolin with me. I might just get up on stage and sing a tune too. Btw, Gary’s last London solo gig was a total, total blast! 💥
- The Long Ryders 🎸are delighted to announce their brand-new album! High Noon Hymns delivers a blend of alt-country roots, Paisley Underground adventure, Americana grit, and the band’s own SoCal ☀️soulful edge. And you can dance to it! Pre-order the album here: cherryred.co/HighNoonHymns
- AllStars Boxing Gym on the Harrow Road today was a tough workout but then I ain't young no mo'. Great to see the gang and after a shower, a light lunch, and a nap I feel as mellow and as relaxed as I will the entire week. allstars-gym.co.uk is our website. U can make friends & work out. See u there!
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- Take 38 seconds out of your busy day and enjoy this warmly entertaining video clip by two titans of Americana, two road dogs ready once again to bring it all back home. The first tour gig is Feb 15 in 🇬🇧
- Great jam at the Landseer Arms tonight. Not many pickers due to the rain 🪕🎻but fun as usual. Zack sang a fine I Know You Rider in a tribute to the late @BobWeir which was just lovely as could be. We are there every Tuesday night❗️It is free so c’mon down and join us. ⤵️
- London🇬🇧in today’s newspaper. Take that, JD Vance! ⤵️
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- The new Long Ryders album, High New Hymns, is out March 13 but you can pre-order now via Cherry Red Records and Amazon, etc., worldwide3 😎 I can assure the listening public it really is our best work and one you will dig the maximum utmost. Tour to follow! Thx, folks, the Long Ryders exist on your❤️
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- The Coal Porters announce they take their brilliant "alt-bluegrass" sound to the Ely Folk Festival on Sunday July 12❗️Get your tickets now via elyfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/ And bring some sunscreen as it will be 🌞😎
- Reposted by Sid GriffinIf the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB
- Reposted by Sid GriffinMy thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.
- A wonderful night at The Landseer Arms in Archway, north London, playing bluegrass with some top 🪕🎻musicians. I mean really fine pickers and good singers! (I was there too. 😞) We’re there every Tuesday night and it is 🆓to listen. Plus da joint serves beer too. And ale, they got 🍺 ale. Go figure.
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- The Long Ryders new album, High New Hymns, is out March 13❗️High Noon Hymns packs alt-country roots, Paisley Underground cool, & Americana grit. The album features Murry Hammond of the Old 97s, DJ Bonebrake from X, & bluegrass prodigy Wyatt Ellis. Pre-order the album here: cherryred.co/HighNoonHymns
- AllStars Boxing gym on London’s Harrow Road is open for the 🎊New Year❗️Proper boxers train old guys like me, young folks too, and from all categories society offers. You make friends, you lose a few pounds, you learn about others. boxercise IS the new rock & roll. 🥊🏃♂️🎸
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- “Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.” – Eric Sevareid 🎄A very Merry Christmas to everyone of you and to your families from the Long Ryders, the Coal Porters, & a suspiciously familiar looking Santa.
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- Santa Claus 🎅was digging the Tuesday night bluegrass jam session at The Landseer Arms in north London tonight and why not? As you can see in a photo here Mrs Claus was digging it too. The session is 🆓 and we are there each Tuesday night 7:40pm till closing. 🪕🎻 C’mon down next Tuesday night, ok❗️
- Soon Come is a fine, truly fine first novel by Kuba Shand-Baptiste about a memorable cast of characters in London’s western neighborhoods. She is obviously going to be a major novelist in the years to come. amazon.co.uk/Soon-Come-Kuba…
- Here is the Long Ryders' Christmas song, the only song the late John Peel ever played by us. It still brings 🎅🏽Yuletide cheer and a smile to all who hear it. May God Bless each and everyone out there!🎄 Peace on Earth too. Have a listen with your eggnog❗️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbSs...
- All Stars Boxing Gym boxing gym on the Harrow Road today was great, our first time back after it was just for a movie shoot these last two and a half weeks. The movie is about boxing, duh, and did they ask me to be in it? Noooooooo. ☹️
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- Hey, my latest solo album The Journey From Grape To Raisin is number 27 in the Shindig! magazine Best New Album poll for 2025❗️So very happy to read this. See me on tour in Feb 2026 with my pal Peter Case. Hope you all like it and tell 🎅about it. 🎶 Makes an excellent stocking filler..
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- A top night playing bluegrass at The Landseer Arms in Archway, north London. The music was 🔥, we celebrated Leanne’s birthday, I saw my pal Danny Eccleston from Mojo magazine, holiday 🎄cheer was in the air and I left the pub smiling. You can’t ask for better than this.Btw, Paul Armer’s EP is great❗️
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- Great show tonight at The Green Note in Camden Town, north London, by the aptly named London Bluegrass Band. 🪕Go see ‘em fight come your way! ⤵️⤵️⤵️
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Sid GriffinYesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery. Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff. Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him. www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
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- Every Tuesday night we play bluegrass for free at The Landseer Arms in Archway, north London. Tonight was a blast & the place was packed 🪕🎻❗️Dig: many of tonight’s stellar pickers play The Green Note in Camden Town, NW1, this very Saturday might. They are truly worth seeing as they play dead well!
- The Long Ryders tour 🇪🇺Europe behind a new album in April & May. All our 2026 gigs are listed at sidgriffin.com/tour-dates/ (scroll down to April 22) and here is a sweet, short promo video for May 9 in Rallapaviljongen, on the beautiful island called Oland.
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- I am proud to say I have three songs on this fine compilation of Paisley Underground/psychedelic 1980s music: www.cherryred.co.uk/various-arti... So happy to see th Long Ryders on this collection twice but equally happy to see the Unclaimed on their as well. (The Unclaimed EP was reissued in 2021.)
- Happy🎉Birthday🎊 to 🎂my old mandolin instructor and mentor for many years, the great Chris Hillman. Thanks for everything, Chris! 🪕🙏
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- Great bluegrass session 🪕🎻tonight at The Landseer Arms by the Holloway Road in Archway. The session is free, acoustic, you can bring an instrument & sit in or you can just listen & enjoy. We are there every Tuesday night 7:30pm till closing. No Southern accent required. You need only 😆bring a smile!
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- www.thelongryders.com/The-Long-Ryd... After our April/May swing around Europe we play again in October in the 🇬🇧. Go to www.thelongryders.com/The-Long-Ryd... for tickets to the each tour! Operators are standing by...no salesperson will call or visit your home. 🎸🎸
- AllStarsBoxing Gym🥊 on the Harrow Road 🇬🇧is getting spruced up for a movie shoot. It is all very exciting even though it means we are closed for two weeks while they film. Was I asked to be in it? Nooooo… 😞
- Here are the dates for the Long Ryders spring and fall tours here in Europe. Sure hope you folks can make it to a gig! ⤵️. ⤵️. 🎸
- A great night as Aussie’s legendary The Saints rocked Camden Town’s 🇬🇧Electric Ballroom AND I got to have dinner with my gorgeous gal and FOUR dear old 🇮🇹 friends. 4 pals who happen to be the Long Ryders road crew. Life is good.
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- I might look about as badass as the Keebler Elf but it is good to see @AllStarsBoxing Gym getting fixed up for a shoot in announcing film. Did they ask me to play a part? Nooooooo! 🥊 Nonetheless it is great to see the building interior getting painted and remodeled a tad. We are non-profit, btw.
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- Yes, the Long Ryders are included here! ⤵️ music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
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- A great Saturday morning workout at All Stars Gym on the Harrow Road today. Great to see the guys again after my tour. Time to work off all that pasta! 🥊 AllStarsBoxing Gym rules, ok?
