Favorite Albums of 2013
Happy New Year, everyone! We asked our esteemed group of regular reviewers to fire off a list of what they thought the best albums of 2013. As we dash out the door for the year, we’re happy to share a … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: December 2013
SARAH JAROSZ: Build Me Up From Bones
SARAH JAROSZ Build Me Up From Bones Sugar Hill 4093 www.sugarhillrecords.com Build Me Up From Bones, Sarah Jarosz’s third album, again shows a quantum leap in growth, ambition and reach as singer, songwriter and … Continue reading →
VARIOUS: 12 Years A Slave
VARIOUS ARTISTS 12 Years a Slave Columbia 88843 00857 2 www.columbiarecords.com One of this season’s most wrenching films, director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is based on the memoirs of Solomon Northrup, a … Continue reading →
WOODY GUTHRIE: American Radical Patriot
WOODY GUTHRIE American Radical Patriot Rounder www.rounder.com Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie, probably the most prominent single figure in American folk music, was born on Bastille Day, 1912, and before his early death in 1967 … Continue reading →
CLANNAD: The Essential
CLANNAD The Essential RCA/Legacy legacyrecordings.com The word “essential” can refer to something that is absolutely necessary, its deepest essence, or even both at once. Whether or not this two-disc collection satisfies either definition is … Continue reading →
MAJA and DAVID: NORD
MAJA and DAVID NORD GO’ 1013 www.gofolk.dk If you want proof that Transatlantic collaborations can work, look no further than this. Danish fiddler (and singer/Hardangefele fiddle player) Maja Kjær Jacobsen teams up with fiddler and … Continue reading →
KAT GOLDMAN: Gypsy Girl
KAT GOLDMAN GYPSY GIRL Goldman, Kat www.katgoldmanmusic.com Kat Goldman grew up in Toronto and won a dance scholarship for college. Soon after, her dance passions were replaced by a 24/7 need to listen to … Continue reading →
SORM Playlist #13-50: Hot Guitarists
(airing the week starting 12-11-13)
This week on the program, we listen to influential guitarists … folks who have had a significant effect on how most of us play the instrument. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1350.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click … Continue reading →
SORM Playlist #13-48
Sing Out! Radio Magazine Hosted by Tom Druckenmiller SORM #13-48 • Songs About Food Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways Doc Watson / … Continue reading →
SORM Playlist #13-47
Sing Out! Radio Magazine Hosted by Tom Druckenmiller SORM #13-47 • Travel Tunes Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways The Skirtlifters / “Takes … Continue reading →