Music for families once known simply as kid’s music continues to be very popular. Many festivals devote one stage full time to family entertainment. Bring the Kids features some classic family performers including Pete Seeger, Tom Chapin and Peter, Paul … Continue reading →
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Pizzica Indiavolata Ponderosa Music & Art 101 www.canzonieregrecanicosalentino.net One of the best musical discoveries I made recently was this fantastic band from southern Italy. I attended two superb live concerts and … Continue reading →
Three Thirds Band Buffalo Skinner: Tribute to Woody Guthrie Three Thirds www.threethirdsband.com In the wake of the campaign surrounding the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth in 2012, it’s not surprising that a new … Continue reading →
Tom Brosseau Grass Punks Crossbill 025 www.crossbillrecords.com This brief 28-minute nine-track album is essentially a collaboration between a singer-songwriter, Brosseau, and a producer, Sean Watkins, who engineered and mixed the entire recording at his … Continue reading →
Tattletale Saints How Red Is the Blood Old Oak 003 www.tattletalesaints.com Guitarist Cy Winstanley and bassist Vanessa McGowan are New Zealanders, but met in the US playing jazz. On returning to New Zealand, they … Continue reading →
Ernest Ranglin and Avila Bless Up Avila Street www.avilastreetrecords.com A vividly enchanting, genre-bending 16-song project (eleven new Ranglin tunes among them) from the newly energized ska and reggae master guitarist – whose signature, muted upstroke … Continue reading →
Last week, I posted about Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane,” his song about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who was twice convicted for a triple homicide and spent almost twenty years in prison before being exonerated in 1985. Carter became a controversial cause célèbre in … Continue reading →
This week we complete our feature on 1964 … the other anniversaries. We’ll hear some traditional music and some classic songwriters who made their recording debut between late 1963 and early 1965. It wasn’t just the Beatles and the Rolling … Continue reading →
Let’s imagine the existence of a country where there’s no music. No, make that where there is music, but only a small percentage of the population can afford to listen to music, due to a patchwork of archaic laws, political … Continue reading →
Bob Dylan visiting Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in prison before launching the “Night of the Hurricane” benefit concert, part of the Rolling Thunder Revue Tour (1975) [Note: Just as this post was being finalized, news broke of Rubin Carter’s death. You … Continue reading →
