Imagine if you can a rich landowner surveying his lands. He has a small band of his men with him. He looks around his land with pride knowing that everything he can see is his. As he stands there he … Continue reading →
VARIOUS ARTISTS Stepping It Out Again! Veteran 10 www.veteran.co.uk\ Veteran’s established itself as very much a label of the people, documenting the songs, music and stories performed by ordinary people. You won’t find any … Continue reading →
MONICA DA SILVA Brasilissima Socialite Fiasco Music www.socialitefiascomusic.com The second album from Brazilian vocalist da Silva (who has long lived in the US), continues and develops the unalloyed joy of her debut. She mixes … Continue reading →
The Tragedy, Pablo Picasso One of the things that I happily now spend less time explaining when I describe this blog to someone for the first time, is that our primary purpose is to discuss the creation of meaning through … Continue reading →
VARIOUS ARTISTS The Descendants Soundtrack Sony Classical 88697984562 www.sonyclassical.com There have been hundreds of Hollywood movies set in Hawaii, from Elvis’s “Blue Hawaii” to “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” The one thing they all have in … Continue reading →
STANLEY GREENTHAL First Song Stanley Greenthal 1006 www.stanleygreenthal.com Stanley Greenthal is a talented multi-instrumentalist from the Northwest of the U.S. First Song, his fifth recording, features original songs with instrumentals from Scotland, Brittany, Crete, … Continue reading →
EINAR OLAV LARSEN TRIO Lysblåin Etnisk Musikklubb 84 www.emcd.no einarolavlarsen.no/ Fiddler Einar Olav Larsen is probably best known as part of the Norwegian-Finnish band Frigg. But here, in company with pianist Daniel Rossing Trustrup (who … Continue reading →
The Men that Man the Life Boat by John Morgan Michael Lewis was kind enough to spend some time with us for a phone interview about his song “Nantucket Sleighride/The Essex,” which we introduced in the previous post, and also … Continue reading →
The Essex of Nantucket Last week was the 161st anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville‘s The Whale, or, Moby Dick. The novel was a critical and commercial failure at first. It essentially ended Melville’s career as a novelist, but it … Continue reading →
ORPHEUS SUPERTONES Going To Town Mudthumper 0022 www.mudthumper.com The old-time music revival is in its seventh decade. In that time we have encountered revivalist bands that kept to the tradition, multidimensional outfits that … Continue reading →
