MIKE SEEGER Mike Seeger Vanguard 79150 www.vanguardrecords.com The timeless, home-grown music of the late mulch-instrumentalist and folklorist Mike Seeger nostalgically evokes a bygone age of old-time rural music, early acoustic blues and pre-World War … Continue reading →
HOWELLDEVINE Jumps, Boogies and Wobbles Arhoolie 544 www.arhoolie.com This popular, Northern California-based neo-traditional blues duo – rough-hewn slide guitarist and cuttingly astringent harmonica ace, Joshua Howell, and imaginatively rhythmic percussionist Pete Devine – sure … Continue reading →
THE BILLS Yes Please Red House 267 www.redhouserecords.com Known once upon a time as the Bill Hilly Band, The Bills have spent nearly two decades establishing themselves as one of the premier “roots” bands … Continue reading →
TONY McMANUS Mysterious Boundaries Compass 7-4612 www.compassrecords.com If you’ve ever heard Tony McManus add a delicate bridge to a fiery Scottish reel, lay it down double time with Quebeçois musicians, or jam with jazz … Continue reading →
GO JANE GO Go Jane Go Go Jane Go www.deadreckoners.com Go Jane Go is Kieran Kane, David Francey and Kieran’s son Lucas Kane. Kieran and David are the songwriters writing eleven of the set’s … Continue reading →
Fairport Convention This is the first of two posts on “Crazy Man Michael.” Read the second post here. Within the fire and out upon the sea Early in the morning hours of May 12, 1969, four of the five members … Continue reading →
Sing Out! Radio Magazine Hosted by Tom Druckenmiller SORM #13-31 • Newgrass & Beyond Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways Richard Greene / … Continue reading →
This week we are looking at the old Scots ballad “The Twa Corbies.” In our introduction we set the scene for this mysterious dark ballad. Somewhere in the origins of this ballad there is a close relationship with the English … Continue reading →
