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 →
Ween (photo by Danny Clinch) This is the fourth and final post in our initial, two-week foray into Murder Ballad Comedy. Today’s post refers back to the earlier three, which you can read here: “The Irish Ballad” (Ken) “Lizzie Borden” … Continue reading →
I was “thumbing” through the electronic files from my original Folk Music Notebook (all of my original blog entries have been imported to this new blog at Sing Out! Magazine’s website) when I came across a story that stirred up … Continue reading →
