China Doll

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Introduction It is, apparently, awfully hard to find a picture of a broken or cracked china doll online that doesn’t immediately bring one to the brink of depression.  The one above, though, inspires me.  I wish I could link you … Continue reading →

VARIOUS: Woody Guthrie @ 100! Live At The Kennedy Center

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        VARIOUS Woody Guthrie @ 100! Live At the Kennedy Center Legacy Recordings www.legacyrecordings.com   Regardless of Eleanor Roosevelt’s attention to leftist music, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-67) might have been surprised to find Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center … Continue reading →

GENE CLARK: Here Tonight | The White Light Demos

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          GENE CLARK Here Tonight | The White Light Demos Omnivore Recordings www.omnivorerecordings.com   Heralded in the mid-1960s as America’s Beatles, the Byrds – co-founded by Clark – struck pay-dirt right out-of-the-gate with their ringing version … Continue reading →

MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY: Red River Drifter

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          MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Red River Drifter Red River 052 www.michaelmartinmurphey.com   Martin Murphey’s origins provide a key to his music. “I grew up in Texas, the world’s number one musical crossroads where anything goes musically.” … Continue reading →

Autobiography of a Pistol – Implements of Destruction, pt. 2

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I’m a pistol, a forty-five, Ellis Paul  (From Meadowbrook Pavilion website courtesy of Matt Callahan) I just shot two men in this hot-house dive.Now I’m smoking – burning hot barrel of metal. Believe it or not, I was bought by this … Continue reading →

George Shuffler, Bluegrass Hall of Famer

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Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame is welcoming a new member, George Shuffler, and an induction ceremony is to be held on Saturday, September 21, 2013, during the 39th Annual Bill Monroe Hall of Fame and Uncle Pen Days Festival … Continue reading →