Now, it’s an unseasonably warm December here in Pennsylvania, but I assure you Winter is coming! In the meantime, check out this collection of frosty tunes to get you in the spirit! LISTEN: https://singout.org/audio/sorm/sorm1551_podcast.mp3 To subscribe via iTunes, click . … Continue reading →
It’s been one of the warmest summers on record up here in the Northeast. The change to Autumn weather will be most welcome. The Fall is my favorite time of the year. It takes so long to arrive and then … Continue reading →
The title for today’s post comes from a line in Eric Taylor’s “Deadwood,” the third song we’ll explore. New songs about old stories I have been helped before by poet Meena Alexander‘s notion that poetry reconciles us to the world. It does not make … Continue reading →
JAYME STONE and friends Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project Borealis 235 www.borealisrecords.com There is a recording of John Hartford in the studio giving direction to the musicians he’s gathered there. Whatever the song they were … 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 →
Introduction We here at Murder Ballad Monday are soon fixing to close our second year of writing about our topic of choice! Don’t worry; we have a few more weeks to go before we get to our holiday hiatus, and … Continue reading →
TIM O’BRIEN and DARRELL SCOTT Memories and Moments Full Skies www.timobrien.net It’s hard to believe more than a decade has past since O’Brien and Scott’s last collection of new material, 2000’s Grammy-nominated Real Time. … Continue reading →
Throughout the month of June, PBS stations around the country will be airing Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center. The concert was the culmination of the Woody Guthrie Foundation’s year-long centennial celebration that traveled from “California to … Continue reading →
This is the second post on Child 243. Read the first post here. The short answer is “nobody.” Nobody weeps for the house carpenter. In our last post, we saw how artists through the years molded and shaped the original … Continue reading →
“The Bonnie Banks O’Fordie,” by Charles Hodge Mackie (1892) Fair Flowers of the Valley While it’s not exactly our intention to ring the changes on the varieties of family-based murder ballads, we’ll turn this week to Child Ballad 14, “Babylon” … Continue reading →
