Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen FOLK CITY: NEW YORK and THE AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL Oxford University Press global.oup.com Straightforward and engaging, breezily fresh and poignant, rich in reminiscences … Continue reading →
STEEP CANYON RANGERS RADIO Rounder 11661 www.rounder.com Radio is Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s Steep Canyon Rangers’ ninth studio album and fourth release for Rounder Records – including a couple with actor/comedian and banjo playing … Continue reading →
DAVE ELLIS With Any Luck But Bad Little Village Foundation www.littlevillagefoundation.com There’s a quiet authenticity to California-horse-country-bred Ellis’ relaxed, no-frills delivery of songs of the cowboy life. Almost anyone – a kid, a Hollywood … Continue reading →
JOHN BYRNE COOKE On The Road With Janis Joplin Berkley Books www.penguin.com The Harvard-educated son of apprized British broadcaster Alistair Cooke and great-grand-nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 74-year-old John Byrne Cooke is an award-winning … Continue reading →
SIMON and GARFUNKEL The Complete Albums Collection Legacy www.legacyrecordings.com Folk rockers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, both born in 1941, grew up three blocks from each other in the Forest Hills suburb of Queens, … Continue reading →
VARIOUS Papa Charlie Done Sung That Song Document 7010 www.document-records.com This two-disc set is a one-of-a-kind project for the famed Document reissue label in that it contains material by living musicians (led by vocalist … Continue reading →
CLAIRE HOLLEY Time In The Middle Self 88295-23079 www.claireholley.com I hadn’t heard anything from Claire Holley since her second album on Yep Roc (4th overall) Dandelion, and that one really impressed me and stuck with … Continue reading →
DAVE VAN RONK Live In Monterey Omnivore 83 www.omnivorerecordings.com DAVE VAN RONK Hear Me Howl Rock Beat 3284 On Amazon The charismatic “Mayor of MacDougal Street,” otherwise … Continue reading →
Perhaps the best known and definitely the most influential bluesman ever, Riley B. King (we’ll get to the B.B. shortly) was born to sharecroppers in 1925 in Berclair, Mississippi, a crossroads encampment just outside the whistle-stop town of Itta Bena … Continue reading →
THE KROPOTKINS Portents of Love Mulatta Records www.cdbaby.com/large-river-music Named after the Russian anarchist prince Peter Kropotkin, this New York City and Memphis-based sextet was created in 1994 by singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and neuroscientist Dave Soldier … Continue reading →
