JOHN COHEN The High & Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb Steidl One day in 1959 in Daisy, KY, John Cohen got lucky. Cohen – musician, documentary photographer, fledgling filmmaker, and charter … Continue reading →
ARTO and ANTTI JÄRVELÄ Os Fera Liluli OArt 8 Members of the Järvelä clan – arguably the first family of Finnish folk fiddling – cousins Arto (fiddle and cross-tuned fiddle) and Antti (acoustic … Continue reading →
DAVE THOMPSON Fire and Wine: An Armchair Guide to Steve Ashley Create Space www.createspace.com/ Although English singer-songwriter Steve Ashley was never a “household name,” he has produced high quality work since his career began … Continue reading →
THERESE HONEY Summer’s End Waterbug 108 www.waterbug.com Some instrumental albums force you to dance; Therese Honey’s solo harp release makes you want to hunker down with a fleece and a steaming mug of cocoa. … Continue reading →
Alternate UK album cover photo for Strange Little Girls (2001).This is the photo for “I Don’t Like Mondays” in the liner notes This is the second in a pair of posts about Bob Geldof’s song “I Don’t Like Mondays.” Read the first … Continue reading →
Bob Geldof (well before becoming Sir Bob Geldof, K.B.E.) Tell me why! I don’t like Mondays! Tell me why! … Continue reading →
Note: This is Part 3 of a three part series on “Little Sadie” – See also Part 1 and Part 2 Introduction I went out one night for to make a little round I met Little Sadie and I shot … Continue reading →
On the cusp of the 1960s, Dave Van Ronk was the king of the Greenwich Village folk scene and one of the central shapers of the aesthetic he later dubbed “neo-ethnic” – musicians who not only loved old folk songs, … Continue reading →
I‘ll start out by saying that, in my opinion, the most egregious error that the Coen’s made with Inside Llewyn Davis was using the names “Jim and Jean” for the characters in the film. It fuels the mostly unwarranted complaints … Continue reading →
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS directed by Joel and Ethan Coen CBS Films/Studio Canal 105 minutes, Rated R www.insidellewyndavis.com We expect Joel and Ethan Coen brothers to deliver quirky films whose logic drifts toward the surreal. Had that been … Continue reading →
