    JOHN COHEN The High & Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb Steidl    One day in 1959 in Daisy, KY, John Cohen got lucky. Cohen â musician, documentary photographer, fledgling filmmaker, and charter … Continue reading →
      ARTO and ANTTI JĂRVELĂ Os Fera Liluli OArt 8  Members of the Järvelä clan â arguably the first family of Finnish folk fiddling â cousins Arto (fiddle and cross-tuned fiddle) and Antti (acoustic … Continue reading →
     DAVE THOMPSON Fire and Wine: An Armchair Guide to Steve Ashley Create Space www.createspace.com/â  Although English singer-songwriter Steve Ashley was never a âhousehold name,â he has produced high quality work since his career began … Continue reading →
     THERESE HONEY Summerâs End Waterbug 108 www.waterbug.com  Some instrumental albums force you to dance; Therese Honeyâs solo harp release makes you want to hunker down with a fleece and a steaming mug of cocoa. … Continue reading →
On the cusp of the 1960s, Dave Van Ronk was the king of the Greenwich Village folk scene and one of the central shapers of the aesthetic he later dubbed âneo-ethnicâ â musicians who not only loved old folk songs, … Continue reading →
  INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS directed by Joel and Ethan Coen CBS Films/Studio Canal 105 minutes, Rated R www.insidellewyndavis.com  We expect Joel and Ethan Coen brothers to deliver quirky films whose logic drifts toward the surreal. Had that been … Continue reading →
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, weâre happy to share a … Continue reading →
     SARAH JAROSZ Build Me Up From Bones Sugar Hill 4093 www.sugarhillrecords.com  Build Me Up From Bones, Sarah Jaroszâs third album, again shows a quantum leap in growth, ambition and reach as singer, songwriter and … Continue reading →
     VARIOUS ARTISTS 12 Years a Slave Columbia 88843 00857 2 www.columbiarecords.com  One of this seasonâs most wrenching films, director Steve McQueenâs 12 Years a Slave is based on the memoirs of Solomon Northrup, a … Continue reading →
     WOODY GUTHRIE American Radical Patriot Rounder www.rounder.com  Woodrow Wilson âWoodyâ 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 →
