LUCINDA WILLIAMS Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone Highway 20 www.lucindawilliams.com After Lucinda’s decades of songs of dead-end men, some fans feared that a good marriage would smooth her bone-lean writing’s jagged … Continue reading →
VAL MINDEL and EMILY MILLER Close To Home Yodel Ay Hee 0085 www.valandemmy.com Val Mindel and Emily Miller aren’t siblings like a lot of their close-harmony idols, but as mother and daughter they stay … Continue reading →
JENI AND BILLY’S BIG PICNIC BAND Picnic In The Sky Waystation 003 www.jeniandbilly.com In the early days of the recording industry much of what we today call folk, country, and old-time music was called … Continue reading →
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Single Mothers Vagrant 4220 www.vagrant.com Justin Townes new album Single Mothers is kind of perplexing. At a few seconds under 30 minutes it is very short with ten compact songs. It … Continue reading →
LEO TOLSTOY’s War and Peace dramatized by Timberlake Wertenbaker BBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk On a misty grey New Year’s Day, BBC radio 4, a speech station in England broadcast a 10-hour audio play version … Continue reading →
LYNNE HANSON River of Sand Continental www.lynnehanson.com Whoever dumped Lynne Hanson unleashed a melancholy that made for a solid collection of songs from this celebrated Canadian songwriter. Produced by Lynn Miles, another talented … Continue reading →
WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlist for January 11, 2015 The events taking place in Paris and around the globe following the tragic shooting in the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine have led to important and long overdo discussions on free speech and … Continue reading →
A little less than a year ago we started a new series within Murder Ballad Monday called “Conversations with Death.” These brief, emotional posts allow us to explore songs that resonate for us in ways we find typical of our genre of choice, … Continue reading →
In the past, Old Time music used be mostly an Old-Boys Network. However there have always been strong Women who blazed their own trail. We’ll hear some of the very best on Women in Old-Time Music Pt 1. LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1502_podcast.mp3 … Continue reading →
Beloved Philadelphia folk music DJ and icon Gene Shay announced that he will be retiring from broadcasting. Shay has been an influential member to the folk music community for more than five decades. WXPN, a non-commercial, member-supported radio service out … Continue reading →
