Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen FOLK CITY: NEW YORK and THE AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL Oxford University Press global.oup.com Straightforward and engaging, breezily fresh and poignant, rich in reminiscences … Continue reading →
SIERRA HULL Weighted Mind Rounder Records www.rounder.com Innovation has long been an important part of the musical endeavor, and it’s often the first person to happen upon a new idea – rather than the … Continue reading →
JOHN BYRNE BAND The Immigrant and the Orphan John Byrne Band 082015 www.johnbyrneband.com I‘ve known John Byrne, an Irishman long settled in Philadelphia, about a decade. Besides being one of the most pleasant chaps … Continue reading →
Henry Glassie, Clifford R. Murphy, Douglas Dowling Peach OLA BELLE REED and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line Dust to Digital 978-0-9817342-7-9 www.dust-digital.com The Mason-Dixon line was created in Colonial America to … Continue reading →
JOE ELY Panhandle Rambler Rack ‘Em Records 007 www.ely.com A new Joe Ely album is always cause for rejoicing in my house. The Texas songman creates dramatic story-songs which he delivers with heroic flourish. … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/96555430″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Brattleboro, VT’s Brendan Taaffe takes a wide ranging approach to folk; he’s got a Masters in Irish fiddle, has studied mbira playing and choral arrangement in Zimbabwe, and composes new songs in … Continue reading →
Sad news out of Beacon, New York … at a meeting on January 20, the Clearwater environmental group’s board of directors voted to cancel the 2016 annual festival, the Great Hudson River Revival. There are also lots of questions about … Continue reading →
America has produced two distinct musical styles which have traveled the world-Blues and Jazz. Both are improvisational in nature and stem from the same source-the folk music of the African-Americans who were brought here as slaves. This week on The … Continue reading →
Introduction – “Come little girl…” A couple of years back, I blogged over two weeks about what I called my “Essential Eleven Traditional Murder Ballads” and my “Essential Eleven Non-Traditional Murder Ballads.” I cataloged a variety of tunes and performances … Continue reading →
This week we’ll turn our attention to the Harmonica and some of its finest players. We’ll hear classic masters like Little Walter and James Cotton, innovators like Mickey Raphael Charlie McCoy and John Mayall and new a new recording from … Continue reading →
