Posts Tagged ‘folk’
Woody Guthrie – “My Dusty Road”
Woody Guthrie Rediscovered
It isn’t often that a legend gets the chance to be reborn, but listening to these four disks is like hearing Woody for the first time. His voice is clear on all of the tracks. The hiss and background noise that is so familiar to any Guthrie recording is virtually unnoticeable....
October 6th, 2009 | Record Reviews | Read More Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go 50 years of The New Lost City Ramblers
The New Lost City Ramblers were not only musicians, they were historians. They searched the country for lost singers, and helped revive their music. Their most recent collection of music, Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? is not only a celebration of a legendary folk group, but it is also an...
August 30th, 2009 | Features, Record Reviews | Read More Rest In Peace, Mike Seeger – Read his last interview
The music world lost an incredible performer with the passing of folk virtuoso Mike Seeger this weekend. Seeger, best known for his work with the New Lost City Ramblers in the 1950s and 1960s, died Friday of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75. His survivors include 13 grandchildren...
August 17th, 2009 | Features | Read More Download Newport Folk Festival Performers Sets
Avett Brothers, Billy Bragg, Neko case, Ramblin Jack, Pete Seeger, Gillian Welch.. from NPR
In the true spirit of Folk Music NPR has once again gone above and beyond to get the music to the people for free. When you visit http://www.npr.org/music/newportfolk/index2.html you are visiting the Newport,...
August 14th, 2009 | Concert & Tour Dates, Fans, Features | Read More Steve Shiffman & The Land of No
Anti-folk has been used to describe this East coast wonder known as Steve Shiffman & The Land of No. Indeed the elements of modern anti-folk are present in this melodic record, however it can be more clearly stated by considering Steve Shiffman as a bridging sound from the singer/songwriter/folk...
July 29th, 2009 | Record Reviews | Read More Monsters of Folk unleashed from the depths
We first wrote about Monsters of Folk, the mysterious folk supergroup featuring Conor Oberst, Jim James Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, singer-songwriter M. Ward and Saddle Creek producer Mike Mogis, while fawning over Yames’s Harrison tribute EP last week.
Now, “Say Please,” the first...
July 25th, 2009 | Concert & Tour Dates, Features | Read More Billy Bragg – Duke University, Durham, NC
by Daniel Bayer
November 1, 2008 – Duke University, Durham, NC
“I love this folk music shit, don’t you?” asked British left-wing singer/songwriter Billy Bragg before launching into another one of his Curtis Mayfield-meets-Joe Strummer guitar riffs. Unaccompanied by anything other...
November 3rd, 2008 | Concert & Tour Reviews | Read More Revival Tour (Frontman of Against Me!, Avail, Hot Water Music, and Lucero) – The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA
by Jason Estopinal
November 1, 2008 – The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA
Lined up like a row of raw unshucked corn, punk/folk/Americana pillars Tim Barry (Avail), Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music, Rumbleseat), Ben Nichols (Lucero), and Tom Gabel (Against Me!) crowded the stage to a sold out audience...
November 3rd, 2008 | Concert & Tour Reviews | Read More Old Crow Medicine Show
by Jesse Hill
On September 23rd, Old Crow Medicine Show will release their third album Tennessee Pusher, a beautifully cinematic and empathetic album about a people and from a people, the American people, the people from which this musical tradition is sprung. After going into the lost alleys and forgotten...
September 20th, 2008 | Favorites, Features, Interviews | Read More Mike Seeger – “Last Known Interview”
The Vine of American music grew slowly at first. Traditions were passed down from person to person. Music and musicians were relatively isolated, unique to each region. This slowly shifted as people arrived here from a wider range of countries, settled more of the country.
The advent and growth of recording,...
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Phil Vassar: I did it my way December 30, 2009 17:12 -
CMP Talks with Rosanne Cash about life, her legendary father and her extraordinary new album. November 17, 2009 11:11 -
Randy Houser is Keeping His “Boots On” – Interview October 6, 2009 01:10 -
Tracy Lawrence September 6, 2009 19:09 -
Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss/Soggy Bottom Boys) August 31, 2009 19:08 -
Gloriana August 21, 2009 10:08 -
Larry the Cable Guy December 17, 2008 18:12 -
Dolly Parton November 18, 2008 16:11 -
Charlie Daniels November 18, 2008 00:11 -
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- Jayne: Mr Ed should be Liz Durrett (http://lizdurrett.com/) and Chesnutt has no extra T in it!...
- oldfarmerwholivedonarock: Her new single, "That's God" is something of a snoozefest. She needs to release some better music if she wants to gain n...
- Gary: It truly is amazing the life that this man has lead both on and off the stage.It goes to show you what itestinal fortitu...
- Jason Estopinal: o baby there is no hiding the fact that i think the avetts sold out big time and will do anything they can to make a buc...
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