TINDRA and KROKE Live in Førde Talik 93 www.talik.no On the face of it, this collaboration between the Norwegian folk trio Tindra and Kroke, one of Poland’s leading klezmer bands, seems unlikely. But, as this … Continue reading →
THE ATOMIC DUO Broadsides The Atomic Duo www.theatomicduo.com The Atomic Duo are Silas Lowe and Mark Rubin. They hail from Austin Texas and you may recognize Mark as a co-founder of the band The Bad … Continue reading →
HANK WILLIAMS The Legend Begins: Rare and Unreleased Recordings TimeLife 26414D www.timelife.com/ www.hankwilliams.com/ A terrific set of hard-to-find, material from one of the undisputed masters of the early days of country music. The first two … Continue reading →
LIZ FRAME and THE KICKERS Sooner Silly Fishy www.lizframeandthekickers.com Proof that live music lives: I first heard Liz Frame at a street festival. She blew me away then and her new CD still has me … Continue reading →
MICHAEL LEWIS The Natural World: Lyric Driven Songs of the Borderlands Michael Lewis 001 www.michaellewismusic.net With his wife Denise Wilson, Lewis is one half of the singer-songwriter duo Traveler’s Dream. They’ve been on the road … Continue reading →
HARALD HAUGAARD Den Femste Søster Westpark 0511 www.westparkmusic.de Harald Haugaard might still be best remembered as half of Haugaard & Høirup, but for the last few years he’s been forging his own career. This … Continue reading →
ARNE ANDERDAL Godsruta: Tradisjonmusik frå Hallingdal og Hemsedal Etnisk Musikklubb 81 www.etniskmusikklubb.no Norwegian Arne Anderdal has played the Hardanger fiddle (like a normal fiddle but with four sympathetic drone strings) and investigated the music of … Continue reading →
DAPPER’S DELIGHT Indoors Karnatic Lab 025 www.karnaticlab.com/ Dapper’s Delight, the Dutch-based duo of Anglo concertina and recorder (the recorders are specially made and based on 16th century models) specialize in music that sounds far … Continue reading →
SPIRO Kaleidophonica RealWorld 188 www.realworldrecords.com www.spiromusic.com Spiro is a quartet of highly imaginative musicians centered around the English town of Bristol. At first glance the combination of fiddle, piano accordion, mandolin and guitar would indicate … Continue reading →
DENNIS STROUGHMATT La Belle Blondine Swallow 6223 www.swallowrecords.com www.creolefiddle.com When you studied US history, you probably never learned about the French Creole settlers who founded the Illinois territory 300 years ago along the Mississippi and … Continue reading →
