JEREMY BASS NEW YORK IN SPRING Jeremy Bass www.jeremybassmusic.com Bass, following up on the Winter Bare collection, reveals another string from his musical bow with an album of Bossa nova inspired tunes. Many of … Continue reading →
SÉAN Ó HÉANAIGH The Tides That Bind Einniu www.tidesthatbind.com With a name like Séan Ó hÉanaigh, d’ye think he might be Irish? hÉanaigh has a distinguished musical pedigree. He was born in Boston to … Continue reading →
JOHN BYRNE COOKE On The Road With Janis Joplin Berkley Books www.penguin.com The Harvard-educated son of apprized British broadcaster Alistair Cooke and great-grand-nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 74-year-old John Byrne Cooke is an award-winning … Continue reading →
SIMON and GARFUNKEL The Complete Albums Collection Legacy www.legacyrecordings.com Folk rockers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, both born in 1941, grew up three blocks from each other in the Forest Hills suburb of Queens, … Continue reading →
JAMES McMURTRY Complicated Game Complicated Game www.complicatedgame.net James McMurtry’s songwriting is as sharp as ever limning lives at key and crucial moments in Complicated Game. A difference this time is how much more acoustic … Continue reading →
LINDSAY STRAW My Mind From Love Being Free Self Release www.lindsaystraw.com Originally from Montana, singer and instrumentalist Lindsay Straw relocated to Boston in her late teens to study film scoring at the famed Berklee … Continue reading →
SPIRO Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow Real World Records 206 www.realworldrecords.com As far as I know, this Bristol, England, quartet has little or no competition. First off, they are completely instrumental – featuring acoustic … Continue reading →
Murder ballads help us chart the frontiers of our empathy. They provide the chance to connect emotionally with victims and villains; sometimes with sympathy, sometimes with revulsion. Through them, we inhabit the perspectives of the dead and dying, witnesses and bystanders, and often the poor souls who, … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/125090120″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Hailing from Barcelona, singer-songwriter Fernando Gonzalo is a long way from the US but fell in love early with American country-folk styles. His own recordings aim for a sound and imagery that is … Continue reading →
This week we begin a two week visit to Louisiana. Our first program focuses on classic Louisiana music and a trip to The Crescent City of New Orleans. Louisiana is a melting pot of many musical traditions. This week we’ll … Continue reading →
