Folkfinds: AnTara’s “I Have A House Of My Own With A Chimney Built On Top Of It”

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Podcast: Izzy Young and the Folklore Center
Episode #15-45 | airing 11-04-15

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Israel Young founded the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village in 1957. The timing was perfect for an establishment that was as much a clubhouse as a store. Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center is a documentary from Sweden … Continue reading →

Never Again: Redemption, Loss, & Wrecks on the Highway (Part 2)

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To good and true love fear is forever fixed. — Rabelais This is the second of a two-part look at songs (“Wreck on the Highway” and “Percy’s Song”) about road crashes and their aftermath … Bad News In one of … Continue reading →

Folkfinds: Willi Goehring’s “Up The Hill”

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Podcast: Halloween Spooktacular
Episode #15-44 | airing 10-28-15

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Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. It’s a combination of the Autumnal weather and the brilliant colors but also sinister songs of the supernatural intertwined with tradition are very appealing. We’ll hear classics from Archie Fisher, Anne Hills and … Continue reading →

Never Again: Redemption, Loss, & Wrecks on the Highway (Part 1)

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This is the first of a two-part look at songs (“Wreck on the Highway” and “Percy’s Song”) about road crashes and their aftermath … The meaning of life is that it stops. — Kafka Impact Shards of shattered windshield, mangled … Continue reading →

Podcast: Ballads, Old and New, pt. 2
Episode #15-43 | airing 10-21-15

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This week we complete our two part ballad feature with a series of selections collected by James Francis Child. Later we’ll hear a set of unaccompanied ballads from the Southern Mountains and explore a long set of English ballads in … Continue reading →

Deckhands and Shipwrecks, Poetry and Tragedy

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Disaster and Tragedy Among the small number of conversations among friends that initially inspired this blog back in 2011/2012 was a discussion about a shipwreck. It was about the RMS Titanic specifically, and why the disaster of its sinking led to so much music … Continue reading →

Triboro Delivers “Harmony x 3”

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Preview of a new CD from Triboro and WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS Playlists for October 4 & 18, 2015 My guest on the October 4th show was Don Friedman, 1/3 of the trio Triboro. The members of Triboro represent three of the … Continue reading →