The Quiet American Songs From A Rocking Chair Aaron Keim www.quietamericanmusic.com Among the many duos plying Americana waters these days, The Quiet American may rank as the old-timiest of all. Aaron and Nicole Keim have left Boulder for the Pacific … Continue reading →
Rod MacDonald Later That Night Blue Flute Music 107 www.rodmacdonald.net Every few years the mainstream media drives a lame stallion out of the stable to see if he’ll gallop. All of a sudden there will … Continue reading →
Jaywalkers This is the second post on the Gillian Welch and David Rawlings song “Caleb Meyer.” Read the first post here. In the last post, we heard how Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings’s “Caleb Meyer” successfully embraces trappings of Southern … Continue reading →
This week we complete our two part feature Hopelessly Midwestern focusing on the musical diversity in America’s Heartland. Not all great music happens in the Northeast or West Coast. The Midwest has a sound all its own. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1431.mp3 To … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for July 27, 2014 HOST: Ron Olesko With the month of July coming to a close, it means one thing to folkies – time for the annual Falcon Ridge Folk Festival! Falcon Ridge has become a magnet … Continue reading →
“Caleb Meyer,” by Julyan Davis (2014) (click link to see more of Davis’s work inspired by murder ballads) Cautionary Tales YouTube provides a plethora of amateur, semi-pro, and professional performances of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings‘s song “Caleb Meyer.” For … Continue reading →
There is lots of great music that happens in America’s Heartland. This week The Sing Out! Radio Magazine we use Joel Mabus’ classic tune Hopelessly Midwestern as a guide as we begin a two part feature focusing on musicians from … Continue reading →
Introduction The folks at Frets magazine taught me a valuable lesson back in the 1980s; they taught me that writing can be a dangerous vocation. This is particularly the case in the Lone Star State where I learned that carrying … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/21247586″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Hank Tilbury is a musical renaissance man, a wickedly talented multi-instrumentalist with eclectic interests and output. His work runs the gamut from the old-timey to the experimental, frequently in the same piece, and … Continue reading →
Texas blues icon Johnny Winter has passed, according to a statement from his representative. The Grammy-winning guitarist was 70 years old. By the age of 15, Winter, a native of Texas, had begun his own band and was a fluent … Continue reading →
