Jack White Lazaretto Columbia Records www.columbiarecords.com Blind Willie McTell’s 1928 Victor recording “Three Women Blues” was pure Piedmont blues with undertones of racial pride in his yellow, black and brown-skinned lovers. In Jack White’s … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for August 24, 2014 HOST: Ron Olesko During today’s show we paid tribute to two individuals who passed away during the past week: Jean Redpath and Buddy MacMaster. Both individuals dedicated themselves to perpetuating the musical traditions … Continue reading →
Ellen Greene An “Interlude” post, in our use, is not necessarily a connection between one piece of music and another, but an exploration of artistic work with close thematic engagement with murder ballads. It’s a step outside our “song of … Continue reading →
West Virginia is rich in traditional music. I have traveled to Elkins each Summer for the past 28 years to the Augusta Workshops. In turn I have become very fond of the music of the Mountain State. Here are a … Continue reading →
Accordions and squeezeboxes from around the world. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1433.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for August 10, 2014 HOST: Ron Olesko A hazy, lazy, crazy day of summer inspired the playlist for today’s show. (Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 2pm to 5pm Eastern Time over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the … Continue reading →
Jason Tyler Burton Interview with the artist below. This post follows two others on the song “Caleb Meyer,” by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Read the first here and the second here. The artist interview below will refer back to … Continue reading →
A mix of Honky Tonk classics new and old. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1432.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . | To listen using Stitcher, click . Artist / “Title” / CD / Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / … Continue reading →
MARAH Presents: Mountain Minstrelsy of Pennsylvania Valley Farm Songs www.marah-usa.com Philadelphia roots-rockers Marah have gone “up the country,” relocating to the small town of Milheim, PA, and embracing their new community wholeheartedly. Hence the … Continue reading →
Pantaleimon The Butterfly Ate The Pearl Grass Girl www.pantaleimon.com Modern psych-folk can be a dangerous thing these days. It’s easy to go from mind-bending to disastrously corny in a heartbeat, but Andria Degens does a good job of walking the … Continue reading →
